Creating tags from file?

[NodeHam]

Is there a way to create tags on the admin site using a cut/paste method, file or some other way? It's really hard to maintain large numbers of tags.

[crazycells]

@NodeHam please check this topic , @baris provided codes to ease this process previously:

https://community.nodebb.org/topic/16520/tag-list-to-choose-from

[NodeHam]

Thanks. That topic might not be what I'm after.
From what I read, that sounds like someone wants fixed tags then preventing users from entering them.

In my application, I need to have a huge list of pre-entered tags but I also want users to enter their own as they post.

[razibal]

Here is a slightly modified version of Baris' script that reads a list of tags from a JSON file (tags.json) and creates them

'use strict';
const nconf = require('nconf');
nconf.file({
  file: 'config.json',
});
nconf.defaults({
  base_dir: __dirname,
  views_dir: './build/public/templates',
  upload_path: 'public/uploads',
});
var db = require('./src/database');
const meta = require('./src/meta');
const categories = require('./src/categories');
const cache = require('./src/cache');
const tags = require('./tags.json');
db.init(function (err) {
  if (err) {
    console.log('NodeBB could not connect to your database. Error: ' + err.message);
    process.exit();
  }
  setTags(function (err) {
  console.log('setting');
    if (err) {
      console.error(err);
      process.exit();
    }
    console.log('done');
    process.exit();
  });
});
  async function createEmptyTag(tag) {
    if (!tag) {
      throw new Error('[[error:invalid-tag]]');
    }
    const isMember = await db.isSortedSetMember('tags:topic:count', tag);
    console.log(1, isMember);
    if (!isMember) {
      await db.sortedSetAdd('tags:topic:count', 0, tag);
      cache.del('tags:topic:count');
    }
    const allCids = await categories.getAllCidsFromSet('categories:cid');
    const isMembers = await db.isMemberOfSortedSets(
      allCids.map(cid => `cid:${cid}:tags`), tag
    );
    const bulkAdd = allCids.filter((cid, index) => !isMembers[index])
      .map(cid => ([`cid:${cid}:tags`, 0, tag]));
    await db.sortedSetAddBulk(bulkAdd);
    console.log('added ' + tag);
  };

async function setTags(callback) {
  tags.forEach(async (tag) => {
    console.log('adding tags', tag);
    await createEmptyTag(tag)
  });
      //callback();
  }

[NodeHam]

That's very kind of you but I'm not sure how to use it? Could you include a little info? I'm sure someone else could benefit from that too.

Thank you.