How to get the original Story Point value of an issue via API

[sarvesh]

Hi,

I’m using the below API to fetch issues of a given sprint:

/rest/agile/1.0/sprint/(sprintId)/issue

In the response, I get a custom field for Story Points. But this only shows the current value of the story points.

What I want to know is:

• Can we retrieve the original (starting) story point value that was set when the issue was created?

• Is this possible through the same API, or is there another Jira Cloud API that provides this historical data?

Any guidance would be really helpful.

Thanks!

[Christos Markoulatos]

Hi @sarvesh

As far as i know the Jira’s REST APIs (including /rest/agile/1.0/sprint/{sprintId}/issue) only return the current value of Story Points. The original value isn’t stored as a separate field—it’s part of the issue’s history.

To get the original Story Point value, you need to:

• Use the Issue Changelog via the Search API with expand=changelog, or
• Call the Issue API with expand=changelog.

From the changelog, look for the first entry where the Story Points field was set.

Unfortunately, there’s no single endpoint that gives both current and original values together, you’ll need to parse the history.

Useful links

• Get issues for sprint
• Get issue with changelog
• Bulk changelog fetch

Hope this helps!