MailChimp API – Can't update Tag of existing member

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I’m connecting my nodejs backend with Mailchimp via API and everything works great but one thing:

The problem:

When I update existing member information (using method "PATCH"), it does not update/add the Tag in the dashboard.

The discovery:

I’m using a Mailchimp API wrapper npm package called ‘mailchimp_marketing’ wherein i discovered its sending a patch request internally to the Mailchimp API

From this package, I use an add tags function with the specified query and body params. I get a response of 200 but I don’t see it updating on my Mailchimp dashboard
I have been referring to the below links of Mailchimp docs:-

organizing contacts with tags

adding or updating members-nodejs

The code:

const email = "xyz@gmail.com";
const listId = "abcdefghij";
const subscriberHash = md5(email.toLowerCase()); //md5 hash of email
async function run() {
const response = await mailchimp.lists.updateListMemberTags(
listId,
subscriberHash,
    {
tags: [
        {
name: "Test",
status: "active",
        },
      ],
    }
  );
console.log(
response //logs null and status 200
  );
}
run();

Ouput of the above code :
null

It does not update the tag of the user in the Mailchimp dashboard
It would be nice if anyone can suggest what to do or some workarounds.

42 thoughts on “MailChimp API – Can't update Tag of existing member”

  1. The function ‘updateListMemberTags’ is failing to update it in the dashboard since it needs a body tag to be wrapped around it.

    Source: Mailchimp API silently failing

    Final Code:

    const response = await mailchimp.lists.updateListMemberTags(
    listId,
    subscriberHash,
    {
      body:{
        tags: [
          
            {
              name: "Existing members",
              status: "active",
            },          
          ],
        
      }
      }
  );
    Reply

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