How public are "public" snippets?

John Chamberlain January 30, 2025

Are public snippets listed somewhere or searchable using a search engine? Or are they all unlisted and only accessible if you know the URL already?

For example, GitHub has PUBLIC "gists" which are all listed here:

https://gist.github.com/discover

but then they also have "secret" gists which can only be accessible via a URL, IE: 

https://gist.github.com/john-f-chamberlain/a515447438b56addff922e0631ef3e93

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Dave Parrish _Atlassian_
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January 30, 2025

Hi @John Chamberlain , Bitbucket PM here đź‘‹

Public snippets are effectively "unlisted" - they can't be crawled or indexed by search engines. You'll notice they have this in the <head>:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">

Additionally, in a public workspace, there's a page that lists all the public snippets in the workspace:

http://bitbucket.org/<workspace>/workspace/snippets

That page has the same <meta> tag and is therefore also unlisted.

John Chamberlain January 30, 2025

Thanks!

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