Nexus 3 REST API to download artifacts

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Nexus 2.x had a REST API to download artifacts like below but no longer works for Nexus 3.x

wget "http://local:8081/service/local/artifact/maven/redirect?g=com.mycompany&a=my-app&v=LATEST" --content-disposition

Has the API changed to something else for on Nexus 3.0.0-03?

score 5 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 10 '19 at 22:53

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Currently this does not exist in Nexus 3. It is on our Roadmap.

Edit: Since Nexus 3.3 API functionality has been added. See https://help.sonatype.com/repomanager3/rest-and-integration-api for more information.

edited Oct 10 '19 at 22:53

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answered Nov 15 '16 at 19:25

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Has this changed in the past year? – Qsiris Nov 22 '16 at 10:39
My answer is from November 15th, not November 2015 :). Still the same status. – DarthHater Nov 22 '16 at 21:06
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is there any other API to download artifacts? we need this after upgrading for our ansible scripts. the ansible maven module had problems. – loesak Nov 30 '16 at 21:19
Likely it needs the URLs it uses updated, as these are different between Nexus 2 and 3. If you share it with me I can maybe help you out :) – DarthHater Nov 30 '16 at 21:35
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This has now changed, take a look at my other answer to this question if you are interested. – DarthHater Oct 27 '17 at 19:07

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 06 '22 at 11:56

The URL for downloading a Maven asset directly with Nexus3 looks roughly like this:

https://nexus.example.local/service/rest/v1/search/assets/download?sort=version&repository=snapshots&maven.groupId=com.example.group&maven.artifactId=my-artifact&maven.baseVersion=1.0.0-SNAPSHOT&maven.extension=jar

(Tested with Nexus v3.28)

For more options and other repository formats, check out the Swagger interface that's available in the administration area of Nexus.

Today it is the correct answer. Thank you @philippn! – burtsevyg Jul 08 '22 at 11:41 — burtsevyg, Jul 08 '22 at 11:41

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 26 '17 at 21:37

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At this time, the REST API has been released as beta. You can get more information and give us feedback by going to this link: http://blog.sonatype.com/nexus-repository-new-beta-rest-api-for-content

answered Sep 26 '17 at 21:37

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with maven repository, the search API works perfectly for hosted repository but not with proxy and group repository. – Maoz Zadok Jan 30 '18 at 06:56

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 31 '18 at 13:44

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just for this case, I created a PHP script that returns HTTP redirect to the location of the artifact. feel free to use https://github.com/maozza/nexus3-redirector

answered Jan 31 '18 at 13:44

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 28 '23 at 14:02

None of the existing answers worked for me - all of them return 404. I have a proxy repository configured in Nexus OSS 3.38. The URL that successfully cached and downloaded the artifact was as follows (but it requires a specific version to be known):

https://<nexus-url>/repository/<repo-name>/<group/as/slashes>/<artifact>/<version>/<artifact>-<version>.<format>

for example slf4j-api:

https://nexus.url/repository/maven-proxy/org/slf4j/slf4j-api/2.0.7/slf4j-api-2.0.7.jar

Hope this helps someone.

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