diff --git a/tests/api_tests.py b/tests/api_tests.py
index f97d10bb..5e5d6825 100644
--- a/tests/api_tests.py
+++ b/tests/api_tests.py
@@ -122,6 +122,26 @@ class TestApiCalls(unittest.TestCase):
         # get the open requests
         requests = api.dispatch_open_requests()
 
+    @httpretty.activate
+    def test_pseudometa_get_prj(self):
+        """
+        Test getting project metadata from YAML in project description
+        """
+        rq = { 'id': '123', 'package': 'test-package' }
+
+        # Initiate the pretty overrides
+        self._register_pretty_url_get('http://localhost/source/openSUSE:Factory:Staging:test/_meta',
+                                      'staging-project-meta.xml')
+
+        # Initiate the api with mocked rings
+        with mock_generate_ring_packages():
+            api = oscs.StagingApi('http://localhost')
+
+        # Ensure the output is equal to what we expect
+        data = api.pseudometa_get_prj('openSUSE:Factory:Staging:test')
+        for i in rq.keys():
+            self.assertEqual(rq[i],data['requests'][0][i])
+
     @httpretty.activate
     def test_list_projects(self):
         """
diff --git a/tests/fixtures/staging-project-meta.xml b/tests/fixtures/staging-project-meta.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b90a726a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/fixtures/staging-project-meta.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+<project name="openSUSE:Factory:Staging:test">
+  <title>Staging project "openSUSE:Factory:Staging:test"</title>
+  <description>requests:
+- {id: '123', package: test-package}
+</description>
+  <link project="openSUSE:Factory"/>
+  <person userid="Admin" role="maintainer"/>
+  <build>
+    <enable/>
+  </build>
+  <publish>
+    <disable/>
+  </publish>
+  <debuginfo>
+    <enable/>
+  </debuginfo>
+  <repository name="standard" rebuild="direct" linkedbuild="all">
+    <path project="openSUSE:Factory:Build" repository="standard"/>
+    <arch>i586</arch>
+    <arch>x86_64</arch>
+  </repository>
+  <repository name="images" rebuild="direct" linkedbuild="all">
+    <path project="openSUSE:Factory" repository="standard"/>
+    <arch>x86_64</arch>
+    <arch>i586</arch>
+  </repository>
+</project>