# Browse multiple tag names

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/browse-multiple-tag-names/84529>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** scripting\
**Created:** [January 20, 2024, 12:51am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/browse-multiple-tag-names/84529 "2024-01-20T00:51:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![denji26](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/denji26/32/5805_2.png) [@denji26](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/denji26)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2024, 12:51am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/browse-multiple-tag-names/84529/1 "2024-01-20T00:51:48Z")

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In 7.9 I was able to query the internal SQLTAG database through a module we wrote and get paths for multiple tag names, ie:

SELECT NAME, PATH FROM SQLTAG WHERE NAME IN ('TAGNAME1', 'TAGNAME2')

In 8.1 I would like to be able to accomplish the same thing using just Ignition/Jython scripting, but it doesn't seem to be possible using system.tag.browse() as I think I am only able to browse one tag name at a time. Is this in fact true? And if so does anyone have a solution that might work besides browsing all tags and filtering out the results?

Thanks in advance!

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**Author:** ![lrose](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/lrose/32/62724_2.png) [@lrose](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/lrose)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2024, 12:57am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/browse-multiple-tag-names/84529/2 "2024-01-20T00:57:55Z")

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> [@denji26](#):
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> Is this in fact true?

No.

The path, is the starting path of the browse. If you start a recursive browse at the root folder path with no filtering it will return all tags and folders in the system (Strongly recommended not to do that if you have more than a moderate number of tags).

As shown in the documentation [system.tag.browse - Ignition User Manual 8.1 - Ignition Documentation](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/system.tag.browse) you provide a dictionary with key value pairs to filter the search with.