I'm writing a script to easily deploy an application. The code for the application is stored in a private BitBucket repository.
I'd like to be able to download a zip file of the commit. I've tried authenticating with the following code:
https://user:pass@bitbucket.org/user/repo/get/commit.zip
However, instead of accomplishing the task it redirects to the login page on BitBucket.
Personally, I didn't want to put my password into my script to accomplish this. So the trick was to run the following command, after adding your public key to your bitbucket account:
git archive --remote=ssh://git@bitbucket.org/your_bitbucket_username/your_repository.git --format=zip --output="name_of_your_desired_zip_file.zip" master
I have multiple keys on my system, if you do too, you will want to create a config file within your ~/.ssh directory that specifies to use a specific key for bitbucket connections.
~/.ssh/config
Host bitbucket.org
StrictHostKeyChecking no
IdentityFile /home/me/.ssh/my_private_key
In order to download a zipped copy of a private Bitbucket repository from the command line, use the following:
curl --digest --user <username>:<password> https://bitbucket.org/<username>/<repository>/get/<branchname>.zip -o <branchname>.zip
where <username> and <password> are the Bitbucket account name and password, <repository> is the repo name and <branchname> is the branch. If you'd rather download a specific commit, use the SHA-1 hash of the commit in place of <branchname>.
The --digest flag is for your security, and is highly recommended. It accomplishes authentication so that your username and password are not sent in the clear. The -o flag sends the output of the curl command to disk as a file, instead of streaming across your terminal screen.
Note: Bitbucket's authentication scheme isn't compatible with wget. That is why you must use curl.
For public Bitbucket repositories the command is:
curl https://bitbucket.org/<username>/<repository>/get/<branchname>.zip -o <branchname>.zip
Or alternately, you may use wget for public repositories since no authentication is required:
wget https://bitbucket.org/<username>/<repository>/get/<branchname>.zip
In addition to .zip format, you may download repositories in .gz and .bz2 flavors. Simply replace .zip in the code above with either .gz or .bz2to download the repository in the compressed format of your choice.
The --digest flag is for your security, and is highly recommended. It accomplishes authentication so that your username and password are not sent in the clear.
This not true.
Bitbucket exclusively uses TLS and so at no point does anything go over the wire in clear text. As a result, Digest provides no benefit over Basic Auth. In fact, considering that Digest is server-initiated, you incur an additional server round-trip requesting the server-provided nonce.
Our use of Digest has been redundant and deprecated ever since we stopped offering unencrypted HTTP access several years ago and was kept only because there were curl-based scripts doing --digest as suggested by @GrowlTiger.
In fact, we are about to turn off Digest altogether on May 1st, after which curl --digest will cease to work.
More info can be found: https://blog.bitbucket.org/2015/04/03/fare-thee-well-digest-access-authentication/
For those who want to download single file from private repo on bitbucket, I've tried the above but none worked. Finally I got it working with the below command:
wget --user=<user> --password=<password> https://bitbucket.org/<user>/<repo>/raw/master/<filename>
GrowlTigers answer is great, just an update: with wget it seems to work now, too:
wget --user=<username> --password='<password>' https://bitbucket.org/<user>/<repo>/get/<filename>.tar.gz
Does the tool you're using support basic authentication credentials in the URL? Curl request with digest auth in PHP for download Bitbucket private repository strongly implies that:
curl --user user:pass https://bitbucket.org/user/repo/get/commit.zip >commit.zip
works.
I found that this worked in the newer version of Bitbucket
repository_list=" a b c"
for repository in ${repository_list}
do
echo "Getting: ${repository}"
curl --user userid:password \
http://bitjira.xxx.com:7990/rest/api/latest/projects/WP/repos/${repository}/archive?format=zip \
-o ${repository}.zip
done
