How we can get a refresh token with rest api ?

[Raza Rafaideen]

Bitbucket token is short living and expires soon. how can i get a refresh token with rest api ? 

[Deleted user · Accepted solution]

In your browser go to 

https://bitbucket.org/site/oauth2/authorize?client_id={client_id}&response_type=code

Authorize under your bitbucket account.

After that, your browser will be redirected to 

{your_redirect_link}/?code={code}

Use the code to make another request in a terminal:

curl -X POST -u "{client_id:secret}" https://bitbucket.org/site/oauth2/access_token -d grant_type=authorization_code -d code={code}

The reponse will be look like that:
{
"access_token": "some_long_string",
"scopes": "team webhook account issue wiki pipeline pullrequest project snippet",
"expires_in": 7200,
"refresh_token": "the_string_you_need",
"token_type": "bearer"
}

Now you can refresh access_token with request

curl -X POST -u "{client_id}:{secret}" https://bitbucket.org/site/oauth2/access_token -d grant_type=refresh_token -d refresh_token={refresh_token}

[svensyld]

Sorry if this sounds stupid but what is client_id?

[Deleted user]

I order to use bitbucker api you need to generate a client_id (also known as a key) and a secret. You can do this in your settings page in OAuth section.

[David Lucas]

How can we do this all in curl. I tied it and it fails. I do not want to use the browser. I need automation to refresh my token.

[David Lucas]

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[David Lucas]

I have had 5 people try this and there is no output at all.

curl -o C:/tmp/refreshTokenCode.txt -X GET https://bitbucket.org/site/oauth2/authorize?client_id={MY CLIENT ID}&response_type=code

No output from curl

[Gonchik Tsymzhitov · Accepted solution]

Hi! 

 curl -X POST -u "client_id:secret" \
  https://bitbucket.org/site/oauth2/access_token \
  -d grant_type=refresh_token -d refresh_token={refresh_token}

https://developer.atlassian.com/bitbucket/api/2/reference/meta/authentication#refresh-tokens

Also, it will be nice if you provide pull request regarding that in this small routine reducer project. (https://github.com/AstroMatt/atlassian-python-api)

Cheers,

Gonchik Tsymzhitov

[hud_sync]

I don't think the answer explained how to get the {refresh_token} itself