Bitbucket API - Get file with access token

[Nitea]

Hello,

I would like to get a ZIP-file for a tag from my private repository via access token.

I manage to get the zip-file via App-password, but I don't want to share an App-password where the App-password gives acccess to all my repositories.

I use this URL to get the ZIP-file: https://bitbucket.org/{username}/{repository}/get/{tagname}.zip

Any suggestions on how I can accomplish this with access token created in the current repository?

[Theodora Boudale]

Hi @Nitea and welcome to the community!

I'm afraid that we do not support downloading archives with a repository access token at the moment.

I went ahead and created a feature request in our issue tracker:

• https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BCLOUD-22436

I would suggest adding your vote (by selecting the Vote for this issue link) and a comment there to further express your interest. You can also add yourself as a watcher (by selecting the Start watching this issue link) if you'd like to get notified via email on updates.

In the meantime, until this gets implemented, a way to achieve what you want without exposing your app password would be to use a git clone command as follows

git clone --depth 1 --branch <branch_or_tag> https://x-token-auth@bitbucket.org/<workspace-id>/<repo-slug>.git

<branch_or_tag> can be either a branch or a tag name
--depth 1 will clone only one commit and it is an optional argument. If you only need the source code files, I assume there is no need to clone the whole history.

You can then navigate to the clone directory and delete the .git folder if you don't need a repo, but only the source code files.

Kind regards,
Theodora

[Nitea]

Hello!

Thank you!

I made a bridge between My APP and Bitbucket where i handle unique tokens and then the bridge make the call via Username and App password.

[Theodora Boudale]

You are very welcome @Nitea and thank you for sharing your solution here.

Please feel free to reach out if you ever need anything else!