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How could I grab a full history of changes made to a single file?

JamesAiken
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November 18, 2025

Hello community,

I've been tasked with grabbing the history of changes made to a specific file within one of our repositories. This file has changes going back nearly a decade and would have received updates regularly each year. 

I've written a script to accomplish this but I get error code 500.

Now, if I can't get the results I need from a script that uses API, then I'd have to do this task manually. But the Bitbucket page commit history dropdown for individual files as awful. There's no scroll bar and to continue to look back in time at the file changes you have to reduce the zoom on the page in your browser to see the increasing scope of the dropdown view.

So my initial API approach hasn't worked, and the manual approach could take days or longer due to how the web page is built. Are there any alternatives methods, or perhaps more optimized API scripts? 
Perhaps there's something a Bitbucket employee can do to pull this information for me.
I am open to suggestions. 

Thank you.


My API Approach has started to work on its own. So I guess I'm not stuck. Sorry, and thank you for your patience. 

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