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# Operations with Specific IssueLink﻿

Last modified: 19 March 2025

This resource lets you read links of the issue.

| Resource | ``` /api/issues/{issueID}/links/{linkID} ``` |
| --- | --- |
| Returned entity | IssueLink. For the description of the entity attributes, see [Supported Fields](/help/youtrack/devportal/operations-api-issues-issueID-links.html#IssueLink-supported-fields) section. |
| Supported methods | - `GET`: [Read a Specific IssueLink](/help/youtrack/devportal/operations-api-issues-issueID-links.html#get-IssueLink-method). |

## 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.


| --- | --- | --- |
| 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 Specific IssueLink﻿

Get the data for specific link of the issue.

### Request syntax﻿

GET /api/issues/{issueID}/links/{linkID}?{fields}

| {linkID} | The database ID of the issue link. |
| --- | --- |

### 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. |

### Sample﻿

#### Sample request﻿

https://example.youtrack.cloud/api/issues/2-33/links/80-2s?fields=id,direction,linkType(name,localizedName,sourceToTarget,targetToSource,directed,aggregation),issues(id,idReadable,summary)

#### Sample response body﻿

{
  "direction": "OUTWARD",
  "linkType": {
    "sourceToTarget": "is duplicated by",
    "directed": true,
    "aggregation": true,
    "targetToSource": "duplicates",
    "localizedName": null,
    "name": "Duplicate",
    "$type": "IssueLinkType"
  },
  "issues": [
    {
      "summary": "Issue from REST #1",
      "idReadable": "SP-42",
      "id": "2-47",
      "$type": "Issue"
    },
    {
      "summary": "Sample for api/admin/projects/:id/issues endpoint",
      "idReadable": "RP-4",
      "id": "2-72",
      "$type": "Issue"
    }
  ],
  "id": "80-2s",
  "$type": "IssueLink"
}

- [Operations with Specific IssueLink](/help/youtrack/devportal/operations-api-issues-issueID-links.html)
- [IssueLink attributes](/help/youtrack/devportal/operations-api-issues-issueID-links.html#IssueLink-supported-fields)
- [Read a Specific IssueLink](/help/youtrack/devportal/operations-api-issues-issueID-links.html#get-IssueLink-method)

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