How to get total number of commits using Bitbucket REST API

Question

Following the request format:

/rest/api/1.0/projects/{projectKey}/repos/{repositorySlug}/commits

and adding the withCounts parameter as documented here (https://docs.atlassian.com/bitbucket-server/rest/5.16.0/bitbucket-rest.html#idm8283059312), I do not get the total number of commits. I only seem to get the total commits on the page of results I’m requesting. The count does not include results from other results pages if the limit parameter paginates the values.

Is this limitation by design or is this a bug? I am looking for the total commit number before running a python script asynchronously to speed up the requests returned from the server.

Thanks!

Carol_1n5spk · Answer

The documentation says the response should provide the size:

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/bitbucket/rest/api-group-commits/#api-repositories-workspace-repo-slug-commits-get

The documentation also states that we could use Bearer access token.

In summary, it looks like the documentation is very outdated.

Any chance that there's a way to get the commits number without iterating every page?

Eric Lebel · Answer

did you get an answer? the solution involve getting each page with curl calls... way too long for us too.

You can modify this great script  by mikev0546 but it is really not a solution for us too.

counter.py