Create SmartFolder from List of Tags

macOS AppleScript
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Recently came across this article about Tags and smartfolders based on tags by Dr. Drang
https://leancrew.com/all-this/2018/10/a-little-tagging-automation/
Dr Drang has used python & jdBerry’s Tag to accomplish the task
I do not get to install any piece of software on machines, wondering if had any vanilla applescript / AsObjC solution to create smart folder
I use this Handler to get list of Tags of file/ folder

-- Handler {Get Tags for seleceted Files/ Folders} 
on returnTagsFor:posixPath -- get the tags
	set aURL to current application's |NSURL|'s fileURLWithPath:posixPath -- make URL
	set {theResult, thetags} to aURL's getResourceValue:(reference) forKey:(current application's NSURLTagNamesKey) |error|:(missing value)
	if thetags = missing value then return {"NO Tags"} -- because when there are none, it returns missing value
	return thetags as list
end returnTagsFor:

Any pointers wud be helpful
Cheers

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Tags can be read and set with the xattr command. This article by Brett Terpstra gives a good explanation of how to do it. I have no direct experience with doing it this way, because I’ve been able to use tag.

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Thanks Dr Drang, was hoping to programmatically create smart Folders with tag list from the handler
Idea was to check tags on a selected file, and create smart folder for files with similar tags.
I think it wud manual for now. Thank you for ur time Cheers

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