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# Issue Links﻿

Last modified: 24 March 2026

This resource lets you read links of the issue.

| Resource | ``` /api/issues/{issueID}/links ``` |
| --- | --- |
| Returned entity | IssueLink. For the description of the entity attributes, see [Supported Fields](/help/youtrack/devportal/resource-api-issues-issueID-links.html#IssueLink-supported-fields) section. |
| Supported methods | - `GET`: [Read a List of IssueLinks](/help/youtrack/devportal/resource-api-issues-issueID-links.html#get_all-IssueLink-method). |
| Supported sub-resources | - /api/issues/{issueID}/links/{linkID} : Operations with Specific IssueLink - /api/issues/{issueID}/links/{linkID}/issues : [Link Issues](jetbrains__com__help__youtrack__devportal__resource-api-issues-issueid-links-linkid-issues.md) |

## IssueLink attributes﻿

Represents issue links of a particular link type (for example, 'relates to').

### Related Resources﻿

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

- Issue Links

### Attributes﻿

This table describes attributes of the `IssueLink` entity.

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

| Field | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| id | String | The ID of the issue link. `Read-only`. |
| direction | Enumeration | Link direction. Supported values are OUTWARD, INWARD, and BOTH. `Read-only`. |
| linkType | IssueLinkType | Link type. `Read-only`. `Can be null`. |
| issues | Array of Issues | List of issues that are linked with this type. |
| trimmedIssues | Array of Issues | The trimmed list of issues. This property can be used to avoid performance problems for issues that have many links. Use $topLinks and $skipLinks parameters to request a particular part of the whole list. `Read-only`. |

## Read a List of IssueLinks﻿

Get the list of links for the issue. In response to this request, you receive a collection of JSON objects for each possible issue link type. If the current issue is linked to another one or more issues with a specific link, then the `issues` attribute in the respective object will contain a collection of these issues.

### Request syntax﻿

GET /api/issues/{issueID}/links?{fields}&{$top}&{$skip}

| null | The database ID of IssueLink |
| --- | --- |

### Request parameters﻿

| Parameter | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| fields | String | A list of IssueLink 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. If you don't set the $top value, the server limits the maximum number of returned entries.  The server returns a maximum of 42 entries for most resources that return collections. For more information, see Pagination. |

### Sample﻿

#### Sample request﻿

https://example.youtrack.cloud/api/issues/2-33/links?fields=id,idReadable,direction,linkType(name,localizedName,sourceToTarget,targetToSource,directed,aggregation),issues(id,idReadable,summary)

#### Sample response body﻿

[
  {
    "direction": "BOTH",
    "linkType": {
      "sourceToTarget": "relates to",
      "directed": false,
      "aggregation": false,
      "targetToSource": "",
      "localizedName": null,
      "name": "Relates",
      "$type": "IssueLinkType"
    },
    "issues": [],
    "id": "80-0",
    "$type": "IssueLink"
  },
  {
    "direction": "OUTWARD",
    "linkType": {
      "sourceToTarget": "is required for",
      "directed": true,
      "aggregation": false,
      "targetToSource": "depends on",
      "localizedName": null,
      "name": "Depend",
      "$type": "IssueLinkType"
    },
    "issues": [
      {
        "summary": "Huston!",
        "idReadable": "SP-39",
        "id": "2-44",
        "$type": "Issue"
      }
    ],
    "id": "80-1s",
    "$type": "IssueLink"
  },
  {
    "direction": "INWARD",
    "linkType": {
      "sourceToTarget": "is required for",
      "directed": true,
      "aggregation": false,
      "targetToSource": "depends on",
      "localizedName": null,
      "name": "Depend",
      "$type": "IssueLinkType"
    },
    "issues": [],
    "id": "80-1t",
    "$type": "IssueLink"
  },
  {
    "direction": "OUTWARD",
    "linkType": {
      "sourceToTarget": "is duplicated by",
      "directed": true,
      "aggregation": true,
      "targetToSource": "duplicates",
      "localizedName": null,
      "name": "Duplicate",
      "$type": "IssueLinkType"
    },
    "issues": [],
    "id": "80-2s",
    "$type": "IssueLink"
  },
  {
    "direction": "INWARD",
    "linkType": {
      "sourceToTarget": "is duplicated by",
      "directed": true,
      "aggregation": true,
      "targetToSource": "duplicates",
      "localizedName": null,
      "name": "Duplicate",
      "$type": "IssueLinkType"
    },
    "issues": [],
    "id": "80-2t",
    "$type": "IssueLink"
  },
  {
    "direction": "OUTWARD",
    "linkType": {
      "sourceToTarget": "parent for",
      "directed": true,
      "aggregation": true,
      "targetToSource": "subtask of",
      "localizedName": null,
      "name": "Subtask",
      "$type": "IssueLinkType"
    },
    "issues": [],
    "id": "80-3s",
    "$type": "IssueLink"
  },
  {
    "direction": "INWARD",
    "linkType": {
      "sourceToTarget": "parent for",
      "directed": true,
      "aggregation": true,
      "targetToSource": "subtask of",
      "localizedName": null,
      "name": "Subtask",
      "$type": "IssueLinkType"
    },
    "issues": [],
    "id": "80-3t",
    "$type": "IssueLink"
  },
  {
    "direction": "OUTWARD",
    "linkType": {
      "sourceToTarget": "required for",
      "directed": true,
      "aggregation": false,
      "targetToSource": "dependent on",
      "localizedName": null,
      "name": "Depend 2",
      "$type": "IssueLinkType"
    },
    "issues": [],
    "id": "80-4s",
    "$type": "IssueLink"
  },
  {
    "direction": "INWARD",
    "linkType": {
      "sourceToTarget": "required for",
      "directed": true,
      "aggregation": false,
      "targetToSource": "dependent on",
      "localizedName": null,
      "name": "Depend 2",
      "$type": "IssueLinkType"
    },
    "issues": [],
    "id": "80-4t",
    "$type": "IssueLink"
  },
  {
    "direction": "BOTH",
    "linkType": {
      "sourceToTarget": "Part of",
      "directed": false,
      "aggregation": true,
      "targetToSource": "Part of",
      "localizedName": null,
      "name": "Group",
      "$type": "IssueLinkType"
    },
    "issues": [],
    "id": "80-9",
    "$type": "IssueLink"
  }
]

- [Issue Links](/help/youtrack/devportal/resource-api-issues-issueID-links.html)
- [IssueLink attributes](/help/youtrack/devportal/resource-api-issues-issueID-links.html#IssueLink-supported-fields)
- [Read a List of IssueLinks](/help/youtrack/devportal/resource-api-issues-issueID-links.html#get_all-IssueLink-method)

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