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Bitbucket REST API Rate Limiting ?

Jeremy Freeman

I'm downloading a list of commits through the Bitbucket REST API, and I'm running into the flowing message:

AppError: Rate limit for this resource has been exceeded.

There is information on the rate limits here: https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/rate-limits-668173227.html

However, there isn't a lot of information around how they work, when they reset, or what the timeout is. I would like to modify my download script in a way that can download the full list of commits, while still respecting the limits.

Accepted answers

Ana Retamal

Hi Jeremy, rate limits are divided into one hour windows for both authenticated and unauthenticated requests. To obtain a list of repository commits, the rate is 1,000 requests per hour. Once you reach it you'll need to wait until 1 hour has passed so you can continue sending requests.

Hope this clarifies!

Ana

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Ana Retamal

Hope this clarifies!

Ana

Jeremy Freeman

So, does that mean If I make 1000 requests from 9:45 to 9:59, I can then make 1000 more requests from 10:01-10:15.

Is the one hour window based on clock time? is it a rolling count? Does it start with the last request?

My workload is bursty, so, I would like some clarification around how it's calculated to better prepare for this.

Yana_ei0izh

Hi Jeremy,

It's the rolling count I believe , not by clock hour.

Cheers.

Yana

Jeremy Freeman

Thanks! Is there no official documentation on this behavior, aside from the above link?

Alok Saldanha

I may be missing something, but rather than using the API could you clone the entire repo and extract the list of commits locally?

Jeremy Freeman

I'm not able to find an endpoint to clone the repository from the OAuth Credentials.

seanaty

I realize that this is a year late, but in case anyone lands here, you can use an oauth access token to clone repos as described on this page: https://developer.atlassian.com/bitbucket/api/2/reference/meta/authentication

Repository Cloning

Since add-ons will not be able to upload their own SSH keys to clone with, access tokens can be used as Basic HTTP Auth credentials to clone securely over HTTPS. This is much like GitHub, yet slightly different:

$ git clone https://x-token-auth:{access_token}@bitbucket.org/user/repo.git

The literal string x-token-auth as a substitute for username is required (note the difference with GitHub where the actual token is in the username field).

Jeremy Freeman

Thanks for that @seanaty I had since found this, and have started using it.

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