Recently, a new parameter for reading a user's tags was added. The parameter enables an alphabetical or frequency-based ordering of tags.
To get an alphabetical ordering add order=alph to your API request:
http://www.bibsonomy.org/api/tags?user=beate&format=xml&start=0&end=100&order=alph
Result:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCp1EC0XyMf0-h5yR8fqV7YVQIKEAOa1PdH8xPMNCpz9zO4Si3rmevLNHhnyCuqNzFzlcI7zlAsDv9ZN2_UKS3VpA_j-aPEPAGC1jt31Vgi83jM-y6B2hohBzV2gDhkb8nc8xi/s400/Bildschirmfoto-1.png)
To get a frequency-based ordering add the parameter order=frequency to your request:
http://www.bibsonomy.org/api/tags?user=beate&format=xml&start=0&end=100&order=frequency
Result:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgszUZMkdckB5_C-j003z2mqR-oPV5o-kAkN3JaWYyL6EbLXpruCflIyLShkJ63FCb_HV45IFy_IWGsWNSZYj1NAN22i3s-TnOximLbGlt-kVKVFJHsWiAlgkpp_qZks-Bn91mZ/s400/Bildschirmfoto.png)