# How to merge tags in bulk?

**URL:** <https://forum.ghost.org/t/how-to-merge-tags-in-bulk/36808>\
**Category:** Using Ghost\
**Created:** [March 3, 2023, 3:29am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/how-to-merge-tags-in-bulk/36808 "2023-03-03T03:29:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![mmintel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/mmintel/32/23388_2.png) [@mmintel](https://forum.ghost.org/u/mmintel)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 3:29am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/how-to-merge-tags-in-bulk/36808/1 "2023-03-03T03:29:02Z")

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Hi guys, is there a way to merge two similar tags together? I have many articles to go through and clean up so I’d prefer to do that automatically. Google gave me like 0 results on this and couldn’t find anything in the API docs as well. Can I at least mass update posts via the API? Probably have to do it on Database Level?

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**Author:** ![RyanF](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/ryanf/32/17448_2.png) [@RyanF](https://forum.ghost.org/u/RyanF)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 3:23pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/how-to-merge-tags-in-bulk/36808/2 "2023-03-03T15:23:35Z")

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If you’re comfortable on the command line, we have `gctools`. It provides a way to combine tags:

> **[GitHub - TryGhost/gctools: Command line utilities for working with Ghost content](https://github.com/TryGhost/gctools#combine-tags)**
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> Command line utilities for working with Ghost content - GitHub - TryGhost/gctools: Command line utilities for working with Ghost content