# Single Assets Download **URL:** \ **Category:** Sonatype Nexus Repository\ **Tags:** asset-download\ **Created:** [February 14, 2019, 9:36am UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/single-assets-download/1295 "2019-02-14T09:36:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dwivedipawan212](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@dwivedipawan212](https://community.sonatype.com/u/dwivedipawan212)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 9:36am UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/single-assets-download/1295/1 "2019-02-14T09:36:17Z")
Hi There, I am trying to download a single asset from nexus repository manager 3.14 through nexus web-api. I am using below api curl -u userName:password -X GET “[https://serverName](https://serverName):port/nexus/service/rest/v1/search/assets/download?repository=test&group=com.test&name=testApp&version=1.0.1” so its giving me message like’search returned multiple assets. Please refine search criteria’ Here I am trying to download a .jar file from NXRM3 so what extra search criteria I can specify or is there any other way to download asset (through scripts)? After some hours of surfing and testing I came to know that the API I mentioned above won’t download the assets instead it will just provide me URL of asset and by using that URL I can download the asset. Is there any other way to download the asset? Why you all are giving url and not the downloadable file directly? ---
**Author:** ![rseddon](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex047/user_avatar/community.sonatype.com/rseddon/32/341_2.png) [@rseddon](https://community.sonatype.com/u/rseddon)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 5:23pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/single-assets-download/1295/2 "2019-02-14T17:23:31Z")
You need to narrow the search down to a single file for this to work. Assuming this is a maven repository, try adding these parameters: maven.extension=jar&maven.classifier So it will match an artifact with jar extension and no classifier.