title: Does Maven or its metadata have a way to get the artifact publish timestamps?
body: <p>Working on a maven/gradle plugin to get this timestamp in a report programatically. The goal is to find how old some of these jars are, when were the latest ones published, etc.,. </p>
  
  <p>The only alternate working ways are:</p>
  
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  <li>use a maven central search API "<a href="http://search.maven.org/solrsearch/select?q=g" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://search.maven.org/solrsearch/select?q=g</a>:" + id.group + "+AND+a:" + id.name + "+AND+v:" + id.version + "&amp;wt=json" </li>
  <li>HTML parsing a public maven utility page like <a href="https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.hibernate.javax.persistence/hibernate-jpa-2.1-api/latest" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.hibernate.javax.persistence/hibernate-jpa-2.1-api/latest</a>.</li>
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  <p>These are not the standard ways to access this.</p>
  
  <p>Probably related question: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28063135/retrieve-deployment-timestamp-of-maven-artifact-programmatically">Retrieve deployment timestamp of Maven artifact programmatically?</a></p>
  
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