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Bitbucket Server project creation via REST API

EeroNevalainen

I am seeking to programmatically create projects via the REST API on Bitbucket server 6.5.1. This seems to work fine when my bot account user authenticates with the actual password, but I always get "Unauthorized" for response when authenticating with a personal access token (which, if I understand correctly, is the way to do it with basic-auth bots). The token works fine when adding repositories, and I can create projects just fine using the bot account from the web UI.

Is it possible to create projects when authenticating by personal access token?

Accepted answers

Davi Mello

Solved.
You must use a basic authentication instead of personal token.

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Stephen Sifers

Hello Eero and welcome to the Community!

Thank you for explaining the issue you’re having along with including your troubleshooting steps. Since you’ve already tested creating a repo within the WebUI for your Bot account, the issue is most likely due to the granted level of permissions within the API Token you issued. We would suggest generating a new API token with the Project Admin role to allow for the creation of repos. Further information on this may be found at Personal access tokens.

Once you’ve created a new token with appropriate permissions please test and let us know the outcome.

Regards,
Stephen Sifers

EeroNevalainen

I have tried this. The bot user is a "project creator", and when creating the token, it's being given the project admin permissions. Still causes a 401 response.

Stephen Sifers

Hello Eero,

Thanks for reporting back. Could you please paste the 401 response you're getting? It will tell us what the issue is with the attempted call.

Regards,
Stephen Sifers

EeroNevalainen

"errors": [ { "context": null, "message": "You are not permitted to access this resource", "exceptionName": "com.atlassian.bitbucket.AuthorisationException" } ]}

401: Unauthorized

Davi Mello

Solved.
You must use a basic authentication instead of personal token.

Marco Tanner_52krbm

This is still relevant today on Bitbucket v8.16.1.

There is no reasonable justification for this: If I use an access token, I am the user that the token belongs to or at least I should be.

The documentation when creating a new token is especially misleading:

"Tokens are like another password, so their permissions will default to the level of access you have."

Yeah... no.

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