How to know the attachment ID?

[Jason Huang]

Hi,

I need to remove the specific attachment.

The attachment was uploaded to many issues.

There is a REST API to remove attachments (Jira 8.20.8 (atlassian.com) but it needs the ID of the attachment.

How can we get the ID of the attachment? And does each same attachment in different issues has the same ID?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

To get the ID of an attachment, you have to read the issue for its list of attached files.  /rest/api/2/issue/(issue key)?fields=attachment should do it.

Attachment ids are all unique, irrespective of the file content and name, you'll need to read every issue that has been affected.

[Radek Dostál · Accepted solution]

/rest/api/2/issue/<issue key>?fields=attachment

To list attachments as json.

Otherwise if you hover over attachment on view, it lists the ID in the url e.g.

/secure/attachment/2407901/myattachmentname.png

Attachments are unique to issues, and are stored for each issue in separate directory in the backend, with unique ids.

[Vijay Dadi]

Hello,

I have the file name, how can i extract its attachment ID?

[Frederick Brien]

Id also love to know! Bumping this comment.

[Vijay Dadi]

Hi @Frederick Brien 

You can get your attachment id with the web request https://xyz.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/issue/{{issue.key}}

{{webResponse.body.fields.attachment.id}} - This will give you all the attachment id's on the issue.

{{webResponse.body.fields.attachment.id.max}} - This will give you latest attachment id on the issue.

You can use the below web request to extract attachment using attachment id

https://xyz.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/issue/attachment/{{AttachmentID}}

Hope this helps !

Vijay