How to create a BitBucket repository using BitBucket API?

Bitbucket like we all know is a web-based version control repository hosting service owned by Atlassian.

Everything that could be done using the web console is also made available using the Bitbucket REST APIs.

You can get a list of all the API’s here:

But I wish the documentation was a little clear, I had a hard time understanding.

I explored a couple of things such as:

This will surely give you a start as to how to use the other APIs also. So let’s get started.

OAuth 2.0

This is the link that I followed for OAuth,

Bitbucket provides you around 4 to 5 ways for authentication. I used the Resource Owner Password Credentials Grant (4.3).

It is useful if you have the end user’s password but you want to use a more secure end-user access token instead.

But this method won’t work if you have two-step verification enabled.

So, let’s run the above curl with the details as:

Its output is as:

The access token that we get can be used in the following ways:

Creating a Repository

That’s it, the base is set now and we can go on and use the other bitbucket APIs as well.

Please get in touch in case of any queries.

Thanks.

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