Activity Items

This resource provides access to the issue activities with the possibility to filter them by various parameters. Basically, this resource lets you get history of operations for specific issue.

Resource	/api/issues/{issueID}/activities
Returned entity	ActivityItem. For the description of the entity attributes, see Supported Fields section.
Supported methods	`GET`: Read a List of ActivityItems.

ActivityItem attributes

Represents a change in an issue or in its related entities. In the UI, you see these changes as the Activity stream. It shows a feed of all updates of the issue: issue history, comments, attachments, VCS changes, work items, and so on.

This table describes attributes of the ActivityItem entity.

To receive an attribute in the response from server, specify it explicitly in the request parameter fields.
To update an attribute, provide it in the body of a POST request.

Field	Type	Description
author	User	The user who performed the action. `Read-only`.
timestamp	Long	The timestamp of the activity. `Read-only`.
removed		Single value or the list of values which were removed from a property of the target entity. `Read-only`.
added		Single value or the list of values which were added to a property of the target entity. `Read-only`.
target		The entity that is the target of the performed action. `Read-only`.
targetMember	String	The name of the property of the target entity, which was modified. `Read-only`. `Can be null`.
field	FilterField	The filter field. It contains the additional information about the modified property in the target entity. For example, the information about a link type, or the type of the modified custom field or bundle, and so on. `Read-only`. `Can be null`.
category	ActivityCategory	The category of the activity. `Read-only`.

Read a List of ActivityItems

Get a list of all activities in the specific issue.

Request syntax

GET /api/issues/{issueID}/activities?{fields}&{$top}&{$skip}&{categories}&{reverse}&{start}&{end}&{author}
        

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
fields	String	A list of ActivityItem attributes that should be returned in the response. If no field is specified,only the `entityID` is returned
$skip	Int	Optional. Lets you set a number of returned entities to skip before returning the first one.
$top	Int	Optional. Lets you specify the maximum number of entries that are returned in the response.
categories	String	Mandatory. Parameter filters returned activities by categories. You must specify at least one category per request. You can specify the `categories` query parameter in either of these formats: `categories=IssueCreatedCategory&categories=CommentsCategory` `categories=IssueCreatedCategory,CommentsCategory` See this table for mapping between available categories and returned types of activity items.
reverse	Boolean	Indicates whether the order of returning activities is from newest to oldest or the opposite. If "false", then the oldest activity item that matches a selected filter is returned first. If "true", then the newest activity is returned first. By default, "false".
start	String	Start timestamp of the time interval the activity timestamp belongs to. If the parameter is not set, it is considered to be 0.
end	String	End timestamp of the time interval the activity timestamp belongs to. If the parameter is not set, it is considered as Long.MAX_VALUE.
author	String	Parameter to filter activities by the author. The database id or login, or Hub id, or 'me' for the current logged in user could be specified.

Sample

Sample request

https://example.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/api/issues/2-31/activities?fields=id,author(name,login),timestamp,target(id,text),authorGroup(id,name)&categories=CommentsCategory,IssueCreatedCategory,SummaryCategory,WorkItemCategory,ProjectCategory,IssueVisibilityCategory,AttachmentsCategory
            

Sample response body

[
  {
    "id": "2-31.0-0",
    "target": {
      "id": "2-31",
      "$type": "Issue"
    },
    "author": {
      "login": "john.doe",
      "name": "John Doe",
      "$type": "User"
    },
    "timestamp": 1533139032010,
    "$type": "IssueCreatedActivityItem"
  },
  {
    "authorGroup": null,
    "id": "4-0.0-0",
    "author": {
      "login": "jane.doe",
      "name": "Jane Doe",
      "$type": "User"
    },
    "timestamp": 1533214812208,
    "target": {
      "text": "@john.doe let's update the summary and description",
      "id": "4-0",
      "$type": "IssueComment"
    },
    "$type": "CommentActivityItem"
  },
  {
    "authorGroup": null,
    "id": "4-2.0-0",
    "author": {
      "login": "john.doe",
      "name": "John Doe",
      "$type": "User"
    },
    "timestamp": 1533221614364,
    "target": {
      "text": "okay, let's do it, @jane.doe. By the way, I'm updating this comment using REST.",
      "id": "4-2",
      "$type": "IssueComment"
    },
    "$type": "CommentActivityItem"
  },
  {
    "author": {
      "login": "john.doe",
      "name": "John Doe",
      "$type": "User"
    },
    "timestamp": 1535649875680,
    "id": "0-0.9-60",
    "target": {
      "id": "2-31",
      "$type": "Issue"
    },
    "$type": "SimpleValueActivityItem"
  },
  {
    "author": {
      "login": "john.doe",
      "name": "John Doe",
      "$type": "User"
    },
    "timestamp": 1535649875680,
    "id": "0-0.9-61",
    "target": {
      "id": "2-31",
      "$type": "Issue"
    },
    "$type": "VisibilityGroupActivityItem"
  }
]
            

Last modified: 30 March 2021