---
title: "Get artifact metadata"
method: GET
path: "/groups/{groupId}/artifacts/{artifactId}/meta"
tags: ["Metadata"]
---

# Get artifact metadata

`GET /groups/{groupId}/artifacts/{artifactId}/meta`

## Request

- The document declares no server URL.
- Auth: none declared

Gets the metadata for an artifact in the registry, based on the latest version. If the latest version of the artifact is marked as `DISABLED`, the next available non-disabled version will be used. The returned metadata includes
both generated (read-only) and editable metadata (such as name and description).

This operation can fail for the following reasons:

* No artifact with this `artifactId` exists  or all versions are `DISABLED` (HTTP error `404`)
* A server error occurred (HTTP error `500`)

## Response `200`

The artifact's metadata.

- ArtifactMetaData
  - `name` string
  - `description` string
  - `createdBy` string, required
  - `createdOn` string, date-time, required
  - `modifiedBy` string, required
  - `modifiedOn` string, date-time, required
  - `id` string, required: The ID of a single artifact.
  - `version` string, required
  - `type` string, required
  - `globalId` integer, required
  - `state` 'ENABLED' | 'DISABLED' | 'DEPRECATED', required: Describes the state of an artifact or artifact version. The following states are possible: * ENABLED * DISABLED * DEPRECATED
  - `labels` string[]
  - `properties` Properties: User-defined name-value pairs. Name and value must be strings.
  - `groupId` string: An ID of a single artifact group.
  - `contentId` integer, required
  - `references` ArtifactReference[]
    - `groupId` string, required
    - `artifactId` string, required
    - `version` string
    - `name` string, required

## Other responses

- `401`: Common response for all operations that can return a `401` error indicating authentication is required.
- `403`: Common response for all operations that can return a `403` error indicating the user is authenticated but not authorized.
- `404`: Common response for all operations that can return a `404` error.
- `500`: Common response for all operations that can fail with an unexpected server error.

## Changes

> 65 revisions in range; 1 not diffed.

- **2022-11-24** (v2) `29b79a1c2c74`: 10 info
  - removed the `ASYNCAPI` enum value from the `type` response property for the response status `200`
  - removed the `AVRO` enum value from the `type` response property for the response status `200`
  - removed the `GRAPHQL` enum value from the `type` response property for the response status `200`
  - removed the `JSON` enum value from the `type` response property for the response status `200`
  - …6 more
- **2022-03-22** (v2) `c7368363b270`: 1 info
  - added the optional property `references` to the response with the `200` status
- **2021-03-25** (v2) `e26e4a280eb6`: 1 info
  - removed the `PROTOBUF_FD` enum value from the `type` response property for the response status `200`
- **2021-03-19** (v2) `7c597d58bbdb`: 1 breaking
  - the `version` response's property type changed from `integer` to `string`, and format from `int64` to no format for status `200`

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/apicurio/apis/apicurio-registry-api-v2/changes/groups/:groupId/artifacts/:artifactId/meta/get.md)

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