How do you get the "author" of an Asana task from the API?

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Trying to determine who created an Asana task from the API, but:

There's no author field on the task itself.
Followers cannot be used because the creator can remove himself from followers.
Looking at the stories of a task, there is not system event for creation.

The best I've found is to use the created_by field of the first (eldest) story of a task.

Is there a better alternative?

Does this answer your question? [Getting task creator in Asana API](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26997313/getting-task-creator-in-asana-api) — ento, Jul 14 '22 at 08:03

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 12 '16 at 18:55

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This field is not currently available on tasks, your approach (look at first story) is the best practice at the moment. We'll take this into consideration for future API improvements.

answered Jan 12 '16 at 18:55

Greg S

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How do you get the "author" of an Asana task from the API?

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