Get Fork Parent using API

[jamiebaggott]

I am trying to use the BitBucket Cloud API to get information about the repository that a given repository was forked from, but I cannot see a way to do this. Could someone please let me know if this is possible and, if so, how to do it? Thanks in advance for your help.

[Daniil Penkin · Accepted solution]

Hello @jamiebaggott,

Thanks for reaching out.

This information is returned in parent JSON element of the payload of /2.0/repositories/<account>/<repository> endpoint.

Note that you can use fields parameter to filter down response to only the fields you need, for instance:

https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/repositories/dpenkin/atlaskit-fork?fields=name,full_name,uuid,parent.name,parent.full_name,parent.uuid

{
  full_name: "dpenkin/atlaskit-fork",
  uuid: "{4437c670-7948-40fa-b3ee-82cc47cf8654}",
  parent: {
    uuid: "{6380b4e9-6ac5-4dd4-a8e0-65f09cabe4c8}",
    full_name: "atlassian/atlaskit-mk-2",
    name: "Atlaskit-MK-2"
  },
  name: "Atlaskit-Fork"
}

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Daniil