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# Operations with Specific Issue Activity Items﻿

Last modified: 31 March 2025

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

| Resource | ``` /api/issues/{issueID}/activities/{itemID} ``` |
| --- | --- |
| Returned entity | ActivityItem. For the description of the entity attributes, see [Supported Fields](/help/youtrack/devportal/operations-api-issues-issueID-activities.html#ActivityItem-supported-fields) section. |
| Supported methods | - `GET`: [Issue Activity Items](/help/youtrack/devportal/operations-api-issues-issueID-activities.html#get-ActivityItem-method). |

## ActivityItem attributes﻿

Represents a change in an issue or in its related entities. In the YouTrack UI, you see these changes in the activity stream. It shows a list of all changes related to this issue: the issue history, comments, attachments, VCS changes, work items, and so on.

### Related Resources﻿

Below you can find the list of resources that let you work with this entity.

- Activities
- Issue Activity Items

### Attributes﻿

This table describes attributes of the `ActivityItem` entity.


| --- | --- | --- |
| id | String | The ID of the activity item. `Read-only`. |
| added |  | Single value or the list of values which were added to a property of the target entity. `Read-only`. |
| author | User | The user who performed the action. `Read-only`. |
| category | ActivityCategory | The category of the activity. `Read-only`. |
| 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`. |
| removed |  | Single value or the list of values which were removed from 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`. |
| timestamp | Long | The timestamp of the activity event. Stored as a unix timestamp at UTC. `Read-only`. |

## Read a Specific ActivityItem﻿

Get information about the specific activity in the specific issue.

### Request syntax﻿

GET /api/issues/{issueID}/activities/{itemID}?{fields}

| {itemID} | The database ID of the activity item. |
| --- | --- |

### 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. |

### Sample﻿

#### Sample request﻿

https://example.youtrack.cloud/api/issues/2-31/activities/0-0.9-61?fields=id,author(name,login),timestamp,target(id,$type),targetMember,targetSubMember,removed(id,name),added(id,name)

#### Sample response body﻿

{
  "targetMember": "visibility",
  "targetSubMember": "permittedGroups",
  "removed": [],
  "added": [
    {
      "name": "Sample Project Team",
      "id": "3-2",
      "$type": "UserGroup"
    }
  ],
  "author": {
    "login": "john.doe",
    "name": "John Doe",
    "$type": "User"
  },
  "timestamp": 1535649875680,
  "id": "0-0.9-61",
  "target": {
    "id": "2-31",
    "$type": "Issue"
  },
  "$type": "VisibilityGroupActivityItem"
}

- [Operations with Specific Issue Activity Items](/help/youtrack/devportal/operations-api-issues-issueID-activities.html)
- [ActivityItem attributes](/help/youtrack/devportal/operations-api-issues-issueID-activities.html#ActivityItem-supported-fields)
- [Read a Specific ActivityItem](/help/youtrack/devportal/operations-api-issues-issueID-activities.html#get-ActivityItem-method)

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