How Download Repository as ZIP file via API 2.0

Corey Malcom

I have read through all the relevant questions but did not see an answer to this specific question:

I need to download the repository (as an archive file) via the API v2.0 via node app.  There will not be any user context for the request so I need to authenticate the request. I have been using Basic auth (using an app password) for the other api requests I have been using.

This url was suggested in one posting and it works from Postman: 

 https://bitbucket.org/<workspace>/<repoSlug>/get/main.zip

but I need to make the request via axios, and am having a hard time passing the proper authentication. 

This is the current attempt that returns a 401:

axios.request({ 
  method: 'get', 
  url:`https://bitbucket.org/${workspace}/${repoSlug}/get/${branch}.zip`, 
  responseType: 'stream', 
  headers: { auth: { username: secret.username, password: secret.password }}
 });

I would rather make the request to the API, but have not found this functionality in the version 2 API.

Corey Malcom

I was finally able to get this to work in a Node.js app passing Basic auth parameters.  I thought i would post this for people with the same question.

See code below:

 

 // This will download the repository as zip file returning data as stream.

async _download (url, username, password) {
  // where 'url' is something like:
  //  /${workspace}/${repoSlug}/get/${whateverNameYouWant}.zip

const auth = new Buffer.from(`${username}:${password}`).toString('base64'); 
  const fileResponse = await axios.request(
  { 
    method: 'get', 
    baseURL: 'https://bitbucket.org', 
    url: url, 
    responseType: 'stream', 
    headers: { 
      Authorization: `Basic ${auth}` 
    } 
  });  
  return fileResponse.data; 
}