Is there a way to delete a pull request via the api?

[John Payne]

I see the option to delete individual pull requests in Bitbucket server, but need a way to delete unmerged PRs in bulk that are of a certain age.

[Julius Davies [bit-booster.com] · Accepted solution]

Yes.  Use HTTP DELETE.  More info here:

https://docs.atlassian.com/bitbucket-server/rest/5.1.0/bitbucket-rest.html

Requires at least Bitbucket Server 5.1.0.

Alternatively, if you're willing to toast all the source-branches (via "git push --delete") that correspond to your stale PR's, that will automatically close the PR's, and is easy (though somewhat dangerous) to do in bulk.  More info here:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Bitbucket-questions/Is-there-a-way-to-delete-branches-in-bulk/qaq-p/547331

[John Payne]

ahhhh. only on 5.1.0 then. Good to know when we upgrade. Thanks!

[Julius Davies [bit-booster.com]]

Unfortunately the only way to figure out what versions of the REST API support various features is via binary-search (by altering the Bitbucket version directly in the URL)!

e.g., I tried 5.0.2:

NOPE - https://docs.atlassian.com/bitbucket-server/rest/5.0.2/bitbucket-rest.html

Then 6.0.0:

YUP - https://docs.atlassian.com/bitbucket-server/rest/6.0.0/bitbucket-rest.html

And so on until I found the feature appeared in Bitbucket 5.1.0.

p.s.  You might like our PR-Booster add-on!  It works all the way back to Bitbucket 4.x and provides a pretty substantial bump in functionality (e.g., rebase, squash, amend, and cherry-pick buttons, among other things).  Bitbucket's built-in rebase functionality doesn't appear until Bitbucket 5.5.x.