# tags as variables

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/tags-as-variables/13968>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [November 22, 2013, 6:46am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/tags-as-variables/13968 "2013-11-22T06:46:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![shirou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@shirou](https://forum.ansible.com/u/shirou)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 6:46am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/tags-as-variables/13968/1 "2013-11-22T06:46:40Z")

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Hi list,

I want to use tags in my playbook as variables.

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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 9:09pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/tags-as-variables/13968/2 "2013-11-22T21:09:26Z")

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There’s currently not a variable that gives you the names of all the tags used  
We would accept a pull request to add it.

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**Author:** ![shirou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@shirou](https://forum.ansible.com/u/shirou)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 1:04am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/tags-as-variables/13968/3 "2013-11-23T01:04:18Z")

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Thank you, and I'll try to implement.  
WAKAYAMA Shirou

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**Author:** ![Melissa\_Tan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f17d59/32.png) [@Melissa\_Tan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Melissa_Tan)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 1:33am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/tags-as-variables/13968/4 "2013-11-23T01:33:32Z")

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> Is there a way to use tags as variables?

Maybe you want to use --extra-vars instead of tags for those variables?

ansible-playbook -i hosts copyfile.yml --extra-vars=“target=xqa1app3”

My playbook right now using it.

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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 3:42pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/tags-as-variables/13968/5 "2013-11-23T15:42:04Z")

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No, you would not want to do that, because then they wouldn’t work with the “tags” keyword.