# REST API - How to get additional details

**URL:** <https://community.sonatype.com/t/rest-api-how-to-get-additional-details/1542>\
**Category:** Sonatype Nexus Repository\
**Created:** [April 2, 2019, 4:03pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/rest-api-how-to-get-additional-details/1542 "2019-04-02T16:03:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![wintercounter](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex047/user_avatar/community.sonatype.com/wintercounter/32/564_2.png) [@wintercounter](https://community.sonatype.com/u/wintercounter)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 4:03pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/rest-api-how-to-get-additional-details/1542/1 "2019-04-02T16:03:34Z")

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How to get additional details like: publish date, author, etc.? Date would be the most important. I need to get the list of most recent packages published in a repository (npm).

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**Author:** ![jtom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex047/user_avatar/community.sonatype.com/jtom/32/68_2.png) [@jtom](https://community.sonatype.com/u/jtom)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2019, 5:21pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/rest-api-how-to-get-additional-details/1542/2 "2019-04-05T17:21:04Z")

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Not everything is automatically returned via the REST API. For example, creation date is covered in this unimplemented JIRA: [https://issues.sonatype.org/browse/NEXUS-19055](https://issues.sonatype.org/browse/NEXUS-19055).  
If you’re not seeing it likely it’s not implemented and probably either has or needs a ticket in our system for request.  
Or in other words, we’re not hiding anything, what you see is what the API returns.  
Hope that makes sense.  
-Joe