Broken API links

[John Lindahl]

When I do any API request to get info of my (pull requests) repos I get broken links in the responses to dig further down into the info.

curl -s --fail -u [username]:[password] 'https://bitbucket.org/api/2.0/repositories/[project]/[repository]/pullrequests?limit=100&state=OPEN'

 Results in the following typ of links (all of them are looking the same):

"commits": {"href": "https://bitbucket.org/!api/2.0/repositories/[project]/[repository]/pullrequests/[PR]/commits"}

 Notice the exclamation mark (!) before api/, this breaks any further curls to that endpoint. 

1: Why do I receive these broken links?

2: How do I fix these problems?

[Daniil Penkin · Accepted solution]

Hi @John Lindahl

The proper way to make REST API calls to Bitbucket is against api.bitbucket.org, e.g. your example would look like this:

curl -s --fail -u [username]:[password] 'https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/repositories/[project]/[repository]/pullrequests?limit=100&state=OPEN'

Such call would return the links relative to the same domain – api.bitbucket.org.

As for the links you got back, they're in fact not really broken. What I mean is that exclamation mark is intended there and a curl for such URL would work. However, as I mentioned before, endpoints under bitbucket.org/api and bitbucket.org/!api are considered internal and shouldn't be used by external applications.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Daniil

[John Lindahl]

Thank you for this clarification and I Will try it out!