# Adding Remote Tag Provider

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/adding-remote-tag-provider/26148>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [June 27, 2019, 3:32pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/adding-remote-tag-provider/26148 "2019-06-27T15:32:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![m.currier](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/m.currier/32/4238_2.png) [@m.currier](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/m.currier)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2019, 3:32pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/adding-remote-tag-provider/26148/1 "2019-06-27T15:32:46Z")

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Is there an API for adding/editing tag-providers programmatically? I’m assuming that editing the database directly is a bad idea - unless that process is documented somewhere…?