diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index f0139e2..a9c1750 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 
 * [#121](https://github.com/eblondel/zen4R/issues/121) Get Zenodo record views/downloads statistics
 * [#122](https://github.com/eblondel/zen4R/issues/122) Support `get_zenodo` shortcut method to get a Zenodo Record
+* [#123](https://github.com/eblondel/zen4R/issues/123) Support curl fetch for Zenodo records to inherit stats directly
 
 **Enhancements**
 
diff --git a/R/ZenodoManager.R b/R/ZenodoManager.R
index 388d67c..c85c087 100644
--- a/R/ZenodoManager.R
+++ b/R/ZenodoManager.R
@@ -979,7 +979,7 @@ ZenodoManager <-  R6Class("ZenodoManager",
       page <- 1
       req <- sprintf("records/?q=%s&size=%s&page=%s", URLencode(q), size, page)
       if(all_versions) req <- paste0(req, "&all_versions=1")
-      zenReq <- ZenodoRequest$new(private$url, "GET", req, 
+      zenReq <- ZenodoRequest$new(private$url, "GET_WITH_CURL", req, 
                                   token = self$getToken(),
                                   logger = self$loggerType)
       zenReq$execute()
@@ -998,7 +998,7 @@ ZenodoManager <-  R6Class("ZenodoManager",
             page <- page+1
             nextreq <- sprintf("records/?q=%s&size=%s&page=%s", URLencode(q), size, page)
             if(all_versions) nextreq <- paste0(nextreq, "&all_versions=1")
-            zenReq <- ZenodoRequest$new(private$url, "GET", nextreq, 
+            zenReq <- ZenodoRequest$new(private$url, "GET_WITH_CURL", nextreq, 
                                         token = self$getToken(),
                                         logger = self$loggerType)
             zenReq$execute()
diff --git a/R/ZenodoRecord.R b/R/ZenodoRecord.R
index e1874a6..a992693 100644
--- a/R/ZenodoRecord.R
+++ b/R/ZenodoRecord.R
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ ZenodoRecord <-  R6Class("ZenodoRecord",
       self$submitted = obj$submitted
       self$title = obj$title
       self$version = obj$version
-      self$stats = data.frame(jsonlite::read_json(obj$links$self)$stats)
+      self$stats = data.frame(obj$stats)
     }
   ),
   public = list(
diff --git a/R/ZenodoRequest.R b/R/ZenodoRequest.R
index 13647b2..af84ba1 100644
--- a/R/ZenodoRequest.R
+++ b/R/ZenodoRequest.R
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ ZenodoRequest <- R6Class("ZenodoRequest",
       return(data)
     },
     
-    GET = function(url, request, progress){
+    GET = function(url, request, progress, use_curl = FALSE){
       req <- paste(url, request, sep="/")
       self$INFO(sprintf("Fetching %s", req))
       headers <- c(
@@ -64,15 +64,26 @@ ZenodoRequest <- R6Class("ZenodoRequest",
         "Authorization" = paste("Bearer",private$token)
       )
       
-      r <- NULL
-      if(self$verbose.debug){
-        r <- with_verbose(GET(req, add_headers(headers), if(progress) httr::progress(type = "up")))
+      responseContent <- NULL
+      response <- NULL
+      if(use_curl){
+        response <- curl::curl_fetch_memory(req)
+        responseContent = jsonlite::parse_json(rawToChar(response$content))
+        response <- list(
+          request = request, requestHeaders = rawToChar(response$headers), 
+          status = response$status_code, response = responseContent$hits[[1]]
+        )
       }else{
-        r <- GET(req, add_headers(headers), if(progress) httr::progress(type = "up"))
+        r <- NULL
+        if(self$verbose.debug){
+          r <- with_verbose(GET(req, add_headers(headers), if(progress) httr::progress(type = "up")))
+        }else{
+          r <- GET(req, add_headers(headers), if(progress) httr::progress(type = "up"))
+        }
+        responseContent <- content(r, type = "application/json", encoding = "UTF-8")
+        response <- list(request = request, requestHeaders = headers(r),
+                         status = status_code(r), response = responseContent)
       }
-      responseContent <- content(r, type = "application/json", encoding = "UTF-8")
-      response <- list(request = request, requestHeaders = headers(r),
-                       status = status_code(r), response = responseContent)
       return(response)
     },
     
@@ -208,6 +219,7 @@ ZenodoRequest <- R6Class("ZenodoRequest",
       
       req <- switch(private$type,
         "GET" = private$GET(private$url, private$request, private$progress),
+        "GET_WITH_CURL" = private$GET(private$url, private$request, private$progress, use_curl = TRUE),
         "POST" = private$POST(private$url, private$request, private$data, private$file, private$progress),
         "PUT" = private$PUT(private$url, private$request, private$data, private$progress),
         "DELETE" = private$DELETE(private$url, private$request, private$data)