how to merge a pull request to a restricted branch with rest API 2.0?

Question

Hi Team,

please advise how to merge a pull request to a restricted branch with rest API 2.0?

Is it possible to add access to the restricted branch of the token?

Thank you

Theodora Boudale · Answer

Hi Iuliia and welcome to the community!

I'm afraid that tokens cannot be added to branch restrictions.

If you want to merge via API into a restricted branch, you will need to use the username and an app password of a Bitbucket Cloud account that has permission to merge into that branch, with a call like the following:

curl --request POST \
--url 'https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/repositories/workspace-id/repo-slug/pullrequests/23/merge' \
--user 'Bitbucket_Username:App_Password' \
--header 'Accept: application/json' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
"message": "merge PR",
"close_source_branch": false,
"merge_strategy": "merge_commit"
}'

Kind regards,
Theodora