diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 07ad807db..bd69817f5 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
     "async": "^3.1.0",
     "browser-process-platform": "~0.1.1",
     "go-ipfs-dep": "^0.4.23",
-    "interface-ipfs-core": "^0.131.7",
+    "interface-ipfs-core": "github:ipfs/interface-js-ipfs-core#test/meta-for-get",
     "ipfsd-ctl": "^2.1.0",
     "it-all": "^1.0.1",
     "it-concat": "^1.0.0",
diff --git a/src/get.js b/src/get.js
index 635f8b34f..d2d990f09 100644
--- a/src/get.js
+++ b/src/get.js
@@ -39,15 +39,16 @@ module.exports = configure(({ ky }) => {
     const extractor = Tar.extract()
 
     for await (const { header, body } of extractor(toIterable(res.body))) {
+      const file = {
+        path: header.name,
+        mtime: { secs: Math.floor(header.mtime.getTime() / 1000) },
+        mode: header.mode
+      }
+
       if (header.type === 'directory') {
-        yield {
-          path: header.name
-        }
+        yield file
       } else {
-        yield {
-          path: header.name,
-          content: body
-        }
+        yield { ...file, content: body }
       }
     }
   }
diff --git a/test/interface.spec.js b/test/interface.spec.js
index ebec1b0e9..2f0021ba7 100644
--- a/test/interface.spec.js
+++ b/test/interface.spec.js
@@ -54,6 +54,14 @@ describe('interface-ipfs-core tests', () => {
         name: 'should export a chunk of a file',
         reason: 'TODO not implemented in go-ipfs yet'
       },
+      {
+        name: 'should get file with mtime',
+        reason: 'TODO not implemented in go-ipfs yet'
+      },
+      {
+        name: 'should get file with mode',
+        reason: 'TODO not implemented in go-ipfs yet'
+      },
       {
         name: 'should ls with metadata',
         reason: 'TODO not implemented in go-ipfs yet'