# Could we get channel metadata alongside with channelList? **URL:** \ **Category:** Sendbird Chat API/SDK\ **Tags:** group-channel\ **Created:** [September 3, 2020, 3:32am UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/could-we-get-channel-metadata-alongside-with-channellist/892 "2020-09-03T03:32:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lei\_Miao](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.sendbird.com/lei_miao/32/463_2.png) [@Lei\_Miao](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Lei_Miao)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 3:32am UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/could-we-get-channel-metadata-alongside-with-channellist/892/1 "2020-09-03T03:32:19Z")
I checked our api of [myGroupChannel](https://docs.sendbird.com/platform/user#3_list_my_group_channels) list and [channel metadata](https://docs.sendbird.com/platform/user_channel_metadata), i dont know why channel metadata not return along with channel list? Is channel metadata just for filter channelList? Is there any chance to include channel metadata within channel response? Hope to get your reply, thks! ---
**Author:** ![Jason](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.sendbird.com/jason/32/488_2.png) [@Jason](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Jason)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 5:47am UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/could-we-get-channel-metadata-alongside-with-channellist/892/2 "2020-09-03T05:47:59Z")
Hi @Lei_Miao Great question. As you have found the channel metadata is not included when calling for a list of channels. In some part this is for performance reasons, and also the order of development. I will our engineering team regarding the possibility of including the channel metadata when querying for channels. ---
**Author:** ![Lei\_Miao](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.sendbird.com/lei_miao/32/463_2.png) [@Lei\_Miao](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Lei_Miao)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 6:41am UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/could-we-get-channel-metadata-alongside-with-channellist/892/3 "2020-09-03T06:41:08Z")
Awesome, including channel metadata would help a lot for us using sendbird more smoothly. Looking forward it can be sorted quickly! ---
**Author:** ![Lei\_Miao](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.sendbird.com/lei_miao/32/463_2.png) [@Lei\_Miao](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Lei_Miao)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 1:54am UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/could-we-get-channel-metadata-alongside-with-channellist/892/4 "2020-09-07T01:54:46Z")
Hi @Jason, is there any plan date to release add channel metadata into channel list? If it would happened in the near future, we can use these channel metadatas to do some customizationes for channel list directly without additional channel metadata request one by one. Thanks again! ---
**Author:** ![Jason](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.sendbird.com/jason/32/488_2.png) [@Jason](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Jason)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2020, 12:10am UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/could-we-get-channel-metadata-alongside-with-channellist/892/5 "2020-09-08T00:10:57Z")
Hi @Lei_Miao Looking out the working progress for and include meta\_data parameter, I would suggest it might be released within two or three weeks from now. ---
**Author:** ![Lei\_Miao](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.sendbird.com/lei_miao/32/463_2.png) [@Lei\_Miao](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Lei_Miao)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2020, 1:32am UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/could-we-get-channel-metadata-alongside-with-channellist/892/6 "2020-09-08T01:32:03Z")
Wow, pretty cool!!! looking forward to use this feature soon! ---
**Author:** ![Lei\_Miao](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.sendbird.com/lei_miao/32/463_2.png) [@Lei\_Miao](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Lei_Miao)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2020, 4:21am UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/could-we-get-channel-metadata-alongside-with-channellist/892/7 "2020-10-09T04:21:05Z")
@Jason Hi, is this feature released? ---
**Author:** ![Mario\_Herrmann](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.sendbird.com/mario_herrmann/32/595_2.png) [@Mario\_Herrmann](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Mario_Herrmann)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2020, 11:39pm UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/could-we-get-channel-metadata-alongside-with-channellist/892/8 "2020-10-11T23:39:34Z")
Hi @Jason I just looked at the documentation but there doesn’t seem to be an update on this. Alternatively we could request the channel metadata for each channel within the list, however that might then be a performance issue on the client’s end. Any update on this being available ? Thanks heaps Mario ---
**Author:** ![Jason](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.sendbird.com/jason/32/488_2.png) [@Jason](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Jason)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 2:31am UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/could-we-get-channel-metadata-alongside-with-channellist/892/9 "2020-10-12T02:31:33Z")
@Mario_Herrmann Hi there. I see all of the SDK releases are in progress with the target of being released at the end of October. I’m sorry for the delay. The progress is taking longer than expected. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Reece-Liu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.sendbird.com/reece-liu/32/631_2.png) [@Reece-Liu](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Reece-Liu)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 4:16am UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/could-we-get-channel-metadata-alongside-with-channellist/892/10 "2020-10-26T04:16:04Z")
Hi @Jason, i ran into the same problem in iOS SDK, but got a different response. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/sendbird/original/1X/d5160c4710ae87ff9a1ee176245dd8da434629c9.png) what’s the difference between Java Script SDK and iOS SDK? ---
**Author:** ![Harsha\_Nooka](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.sendbird.com/harsha_nooka/32/354_2.png) [@Harsha\_Nooka](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Harsha_Nooka)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2020, 6:09pm UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/could-we-get-channel-metadata-alongside-with-channellist/892/11 "2020-12-01T18:09:25Z")
is this released now? If so, can you please provide a link to the documentation. ---
**Author:** ![Lei\_Miao](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.sendbird.com/lei_miao/32/463_2.png) [@Lei\_Miao](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Lei_Miao)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 2:39am UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/could-we-get-channel-metadata-alongside-with-channellist/892/12 "2021-03-17T02:39:01Z")
Hi @Jason any updates on this? ---
**Author:** ![Jason](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.sendbird.com/jason/32/488_2.png) [@Jason](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Jason)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 1:13am UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/could-we-get-channel-metadata-alongside-with-channellist/892/13 "2021-03-19T01:13:06Z")
@Lei_Miao Hi there. Yes, I think so. Please update to the latest SDK version for your platform. For you channelListQuery please set the `.includeMetaData` property as `true`. ---
**Author:** ![Lei\_Miao](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.sendbird.com/lei_miao/32/463_2.png) [@Lei\_Miao](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Lei_Miao)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2021, 2:00am UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/could-we-get-channel-metadata-alongside-with-channellist/892/14 "2021-04-27T02:00:32Z")
@Jason Cool, i just check `includeMetaData` is available in ios sdk: [sendbird-ios-framework/CHANGELOG.md at 49b04708117d61508b4245f0ed791ebed8d2124e · sendbird/sendbird-ios-framework · GitHub](https://github.com/sendbird/sendbird-ios-framework/blob/49b04708117d61508b4245f0ed791ebed8d2124e/CHANGELOG.md#v30216-feb-24-2021) But seems not available in uikit-js and Android sdk? ---
**Author:** ![Jason](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.sendbird.com/jason/32/488_2.png) [@Jason](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Jason)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 11:03pm UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/could-we-get-channel-metadata-alongside-with-channellist/892/15 "2021-04-28T23:03:05Z")
@Lei_Miao Hi there. Please check out the latest Android SDK release. .includeMetaData went out yesterday. I’m not sure about the UI Kit. ---
**Author:** ![Lei\_Miao](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.sendbird.com/lei_miao/32/463_2.png) [@Lei\_Miao](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Lei_Miao)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 2:05am UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/could-we-get-channel-metadata-alongside-with-channellist/892/16 "2021-04-29T02:05:31Z")
@Jason Thanks for your reply sorry, UIKIT should be [sendbird-sdk-js](https://github.com/sendbird/SendBird-SDK-JavaScript/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md), will it include this change soon? ---
**Author:** ![yuf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/73ab20/32.png) [@yuf](https://community.sendbird.com/u/yuf)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2021, 1:56pm UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/could-we-get-channel-metadata-alongside-with-channellist/892/17 "2021-06-25T13:56:35Z")
@Jason Any news here for JS SDK? ---
**Author:** ![Jason](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.sendbird.com/jason/32/488_2.png) [@Jason](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Jason)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2021, 11:51pm UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/could-we-get-channel-metadata-alongside-with-channellist/892/18 "2021-06-27T23:51:07Z")
@yuf Hi there. Yes you can include channel metadata. Look for includeMetaData filter in the [GroupChannelListQuery - Documentation](https://sendbird.github.io/core-sdk-javascript/module-model_query_groupChannelListQuery-GroupChannelListQuery.html) constructor. ---
**Author:** ![Lei\_Miao](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.sendbird.com/lei_miao/32/463_2.png) [@Lei\_Miao](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Lei_Miao)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2021, 6:12am UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/could-we-get-channel-metadata-alongside-with-channellist/892/19 "2021-07-15T06:12:48Z")
@Jason thanks, i found `include_sorted_metaarray_in_last_message` and `include_metadata` are both working in GroupChannelListQuery. But these params are not available in [SendBird-UIKIT-JavaScript/index.d.ts at 2efce8f6d67a5a9f69742b7c5f3145e7a391290b · sendbird/SendBird-UIKIT-JavaScript · GitHub](https://github.com/sendbird/SendBird-UIKIT-JavaScript/blob/2efce8f6d67a5a9f69742b7c5f3145e7a391290b/index.d.ts#L261) is there any plan add them to uikit?