diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e928de1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# Byte-compiled / optimized / DLL files
+__pycache__/
+*.py[cod]
+*$py.class
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/cas_wrapper.py b/cas_wrapper.py
index 8533dc9..3e1cffa 100644
--- a/cas_wrapper.py
+++ b/cas_wrapper.py
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ class CasWrapper:
     def authenticate(
             self,
             local_path: str,
+            return_json: bool = False,
     ):
         """
         Wrapper around `cas authenticate`
@@ -71,7 +72,8 @@ class CasWrapper:
                (should be started from `git://`)
                or to a single local file
         :return: true if a commit is trusted, vice versa - false
-        :rtype: bool
+                 or dict with result if return_json param is True
+        :rtype: bool or dict
         """
         command = self._cas[
             'authenticate',
@@ -92,4 +94,7 @@ class CasWrapper:
             ):
                 # in case if commit is untrusted
                 result_of_execution = command(retcode=1)
-        return not bool(json.loads(result_of_execution)['status'])
+        json_result = json.loads(result_of_execution)
+        if return_json:
+            return json_result
+        return not bool(json_result['status'])
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index d7c772d..f19dd49 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ from setuptools import setup
 
 setup(
     name="cas_wrapper",
-    version="0.0.1",
+    version="0.0.2",
     author="Stepan Oksanichenko",
     author_email="soksanichenko@almalinux.org",
     description="The python wrapper around binary cas from "