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Object Storage Service:Retrieve object tags (PHP SDK V1)

Last Updated:Nov 28, 2025

After you configure tags for an object, you can query the tags of the object. If versioning is enabled for a bucket that stores the object whose tags you want to query, Object Storage Service (OSS) returns the tags of the current version of the object by default. To query the tags of a specified version of the object, you must specify the version ID of the object.

Note
  • Object tagging uses key-value pairs to tag objects. For more information about object tagging, see Object tagging.

  • For more information about how to retrieve object tags, see GetObjectTagging.

Precautions

  • In this topic, the public endpoint of the China (Hangzhou) region is used. To access OSS from other Alibaba Cloud services in the same region, use an internal endpoint. For details about supported regions and endpoints, see Regions and endpoints.

  • In this topic, an OSSClient instance is created by using an OSS endpoint. If you want to create an OSSClient instance by using custom domain names or Security Token Service (STS), see Create an OSSClient instance.

  • You must have the oss:GetObjectTagging permission to retrieve object tags. For more information, see Grant custom access policies to a RAM user.

Retrieve object tags

If versioning is not enabled for the bucket that stores the object whose tags you want to query, you can query the tags of the object based on your requirements. If versioning is enabled for the bucket that stores the object whose tags you want to query, OSS returns the tags of the current version of the object by default.

The following sample code provides an example on how to query the tags of the exampleobject.txt object in the exampledir directory of the examplebucket bucket:

<?php
if (is_file(__DIR__ . '/../autoload.php')) {
    require_once __DIR__ . '/../autoload.php';
}
if (is_file(__DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php')) {
    require_once __DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php';
}

use OSS\Credentials\EnvironmentVariableCredentialsProvider;
use OSS\OssClient;
use OSS\CoreOssException;

// Obtain access credentials from environment variables. Before you run the sample code, make sure that the OSS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and OSS_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET environment variables are set. 
$provider = new EnvironmentVariableCredentialsProvider();
// Set yourEndpoint to the Endpoint of the region where the bucket is located. For example, if the bucket is in the China (Hangzhou) region, set the Endpoint to https://oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com.
$endpoint = "yourEndpoint";
// Set the bucket name. Example: examplebucket.
$bucket = "examplebucket";
// Set the full path of the object. Example: exampledir/exampleobject.txt. The full path cannot contain the bucket name.
$object = "exampledir/exampleobject.txt";

$config = array(
        "provider" => $provider,
        "endpoint" => $endpoint,
        "signatureVersion" => OssClient::OSS_SIGNATURE_VERSION_V4,
        "region"=> "cn-hangzhou"
    );
    $ossClient = new OssClient($config);

try {
    // Retrieve the object tags.
    $config = $ossClient->getObjectTagging($bucket, $object);
    printf($object." tags are:".$config->serializeToXml(). "\n");
} catch (OssException $e) {
    printf($e->getMessage() . "\n");
    return;
}

Retrieve tags for a specific object version

If versioning is enabled for the bucket that stores the object whose tags you want to query, you can query the tags of a specified version of the object by specifying the version ID of the object.

The following sample code provides an example on how to query the tags of a specified version of the exampleobject.txt object in the exampledir directory of the examplebucket bucket:

Note

For more information about how to obtain version IDs, see List objects using OSS SDK for PHP 1.0.

<?php
if (is_file(__DIR__ . '/../autoload.php')) {
    require_once __DIR__ . '/../autoload.php';
}
if (is_file(__DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php')) {
    require_once __DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php';
}

use OSS\Credentials\EnvironmentVariableCredentialsProvider;
use OSS\OssClient;
use OSS\CoreOssException;

// Obtain access credentials from environment variables. Before you run the sample code, make sure that the OSS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and OSS_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET environment variables are set. 
$provider = new EnvironmentVariableCredentialsProvider();
// Set yourEndpoint to the Endpoint of the region where the bucket is located. For example, if the bucket is in the China (Hangzhou) region, set the Endpoint to https://oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com.
$endpoint = "yourEndpoint";
// Set the bucket name. Example: examplebucket.
$bucket = "examplebucket";
// Set the full path of the object. Example: exampledir/exampleobject.txt. The full path cannot contain the bucket name.
$object = "exampledir/exampleobject.txt";
// Set the version ID of the object.
$options = array(
    'versionId'=>'CAEQMxiBgICAof2D0BYiIDJhMGE3N2M1YTI1NDQzOGY5NTkyNTI3MGYyMzJm****'
);

$config = array(
        "provider" => $provider,
        "endpoint" => $endpoint,
        "signatureVersion" => OssClient::OSS_SIGNATURE_VERSION_V4,
        "region"=> "cn-hangzhou"
    );
    $ossClient = new OssClient($config);

try {
   // Retrieve the object tags.
   $config = $ossClient->getObjectTagging($bucket, $object,$options);
   printf($object." tags are:".$config->serializeToXml(). "\n");
} catch (OssException $e) {
   printf($e->getMessage() . "\n");
   return;
}