Sonatype Nexus 3 - get latest snapshot

Question

We\'ve just upgraded out nexus installation to the latest release (3.x). Is there any way to get the latest version of a given snapshot artifact? Nexus 2 had a nice API whic

Answer 1

Bash one-liner using curl, jq, sort and tail :

NEXUS_URL=https://your-nexus.com
MAVEN_REPO=maven-snapshots
GROUP_ID=...
ARTIFACT_ID=...
VERSION=2.0.1-SNAPSHOT
FILE_EXTENSION=jar

download_url=$(curl -X GET "${NEXUS_URL}/service/rest/v1/search/assets?repository=${MAVEN_REPO}&maven.groupId=${GROUP_ID}&maven.artifactId=${ARTIFACT_ID}&maven.baseVersion=${VERSION}&maven.extension=${FILE_EXTENSION}" -H  "accept: application/json"  | jq -rc '.items | .[].downloadUrl' | sort | tail -n 1)

wget $download_url