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

Question

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?

Answer 1

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.