---
title: "Get-CatProject"
description: "Get-CatProject — the open project as an object."
url: "https://docs.justcat.it/reference/powershell-module/get-catproject/"
---
# Get-CatProject

## Synopsis

```powershell
Get-CatProject
```

## Parameters

None (common parameters only).

## What it does

Writes the project CAT built when it was opened — everything the project file and its lists resolved to. The `Get-Cat*` cmdlets are shortcuts to single properties of this object; use it when you need several of them, or the ones that have no cmdlet (`DataSourceLists`, `Queries`, `QueryLists`, `TestTemplates`, `Outputs`, `Threads`).

## Output

One `Project` object: `DataSources`, `DataSourceLists`, `Tests`, `TestLists`, `Queries`, `QueryLists`, `TestTemplates`, `Outputs`, `Threads`, `ThreadsRaw`, `ProjectPathInfo` (`ResolvedPath`, `ResolvedDirectory`, `FileNameWithoutExtension`, `ProvidedPath`), `TestGeneratorResults`, `ProjectDataSet`.

## Errors

`There is no CAT project open. Use Open-CatProject to open it.` when nothing is open.

## Examples

```powershell
$p = Open-CatProject -Path 'D:\Testing\DwhTests.cat.yaml'   # Open-CatProject returns it too
$p = Get-CatProject
$p.ProjectPathInfo.ResolvedPath
$p.Tests.Count
$p.Outputs | Select-Object Format, Path
$p.Threads
```

## Related

- [Introduction](https://docs.justcat.it/reference/powershell-module/introduction/ "Introduction") — session model, logging, errors, sign-in.
- [`Show-CatProject`](https://docs.justcat.it/reference/powershell-module/show-catproject/ "Show-CatProject") — the same, printed for reading.
- [Project file](https://docs.justcat.it/reference/project-file/ "Project file").