Search to list repos with a certain string

David Harvey_w78eum

Using the GUI, I can get a list of  354 files in the account with the string "APIM", but what I'm looking for is a list of repos with that string.   This would seem like an obvious use case.   I would rather not download all repos in the account onto my laptop simply to be able to ask this question.

Theodora Boudale

Hi @David Harvey,

Code search indeed returns a list of files with your search term.

You could use our API to get a list of repos e.g. with a call like the following:

curl --user <BitbucketUsername>:<app-password> --request GET 'https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/workspaces/<workspace-id>/search/code?search_query=APIM&fields=values.file.commit.repository.links.html.href'

This query though will return the repo URL for each file where the search term exists. If there are two files in the same repo with this search term, you will get the repo URL twice in the output.

If you want, I can create a feature request in our issue tracker for the ability to view the list of repos that contain a search term (along with the list files). Please feel free to let me know if you'd like me to proceed with that.

Kind regards,
Theodora