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How to get user email address using BitBucket API?

Ramesh Kannan

I'm an administrator of a Bitbucket account. Under my account I've more than 50 repositories and 5 more groups.

I'm using Bitbucket API to get list of open pull requests. I want to notify the reviewers to take necessary action on the OPEN pull request. For sending notification I need the reviewers email addresses, but I cannot find any API for getting email address from username.

Is it possible to get email addresses of user by using their username?

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evzijst

Is it possible to get email addresses of user by using their username?

No. Email addresses are considered somewhat personal and are not disclosed to other users.

Ramesh Kannan

Are you saying even repository(private) admins also don't have permission to get emails of their users?

evzijst

That is correct.

Now this approach is far from perfect, as you can look at the commit browser that resolves commits to Bitbucket accounts and then look at the email address in the raw commit object. However, we do not openly disclose user-to-email data).

unknown

What if user need to reset the passwd and he's not sure what is the exact email address. or else resetting passwd of a common checkout user . ho we can see where we get the mail. even site admin cant check the email address?

Steven Combs

This is a very basic repository administration feature that most teams want

Vitaly Ketsenko

This is so stupid, I added all users by emails - so I know emails, they have created accounts and now I can't see those emails, I have to ask each one what email did they use and some don't even remember, and of course it's hard to find it in chat with every user because I added them several months ago

Stephen Estrada

Alexandr Marchenko_8vesyl

There is an workaround for those who also using jira

Here is a powershell snippet:

# bitbucket users
$org = "contoso"
$username = "username@contoso.com"
$password = "********************"
$headers = @{ Authorization = "Basic " + [Convert]::ToBase64String([Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes("$($username):$($password)")) }

$bitbucket = Invoke-RestMethod -Headers $headers -Uri "https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/workspaces/$org/members?pagelen=100" | Select-Object -ExpandProperty values | Select-Object -ExpandProperty user | Select-Object display_name, nickname, account_id

# jira users
$org = "contoso"
$username = "username@contoso.com"
$password = "********************"
$headers = @{ Authorization = "Basic " + [Convert]::ToBase64String([Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes("$($username):$($password)")) 

$jira = Invoke-RestMethod -Headers $headers -Uri "https://$org.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/users/search?maxResults=500"
$jira = $jira | Group-Object accountId -AsHashTable


# join
$bitbucket | Select-Object display_name, @{n='email';e={ $jira[$_.account_id][0].emailAddress }}

Which will print your bitbucket users and their emails

How it works:

from bitbucket we are retrieving accountId which in most cases same for both bitbucket and jira (but not always)
from jira we are retrieving users with emails
join both collections by account id field
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Saurabh Vajpayee_o5zp1t

mient-jan

The fact that you need to use jira to validate if a user on bitbucket show how FLAWED bitbucket currently is.

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