How to get the url to tag & category base set by the user?

Question

I'm searching for half an hour now on how to get the url/permalink base in Wordpress (the 'category' and 'tag' value set in the backend). Could you please point me in the right direction?

I want to dynamically print the following - but only replace the tags and category part (not the tag/category itself):

<a href="/tags/my-tag">My Tag</a>
<a href="/category/my-category">My Category</a>

Answer 1

You really shouldn't need this, as you should be outputting the URLs via the API: get_tag_link, get_category_link, get_term_link.

However, for the sake of answering the question, they're stored in options:

get_option( 'tag_base' );
get_option( 'category_base' );