Using BitBucket's API to fork a repository

Question

There's any way to fork a repository using BB's API?

From what I've read on the API's docs, there isn't any explicit one: https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BITBUCKET/Repositories

My idea is to create a new repo and point that it's a fork of another one, so I can create pull requests later.

Ogglas · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-25T16:13:42.983

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You can use the API to fork a repository, either using Basic authorization or OAuth.

The method to fork a repository:

Using a authorized POST-request with required post data "name". https://bitbucket.org/api/1.0/repositories/{accountname}/{repo_slug}/fork/

Full documentation with optional parameters here: http://restbrowser.bitbucket.org/

edited Nov 25 '15 at 16:13

answered Nov 25 '15 at 08:42

Ogglas

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Is this new? I'm pretty sure it wasn't there before. – dmmd Nov 25 '15 at 11:10
I don't know @dmmd. It is in version 1.0 of the API but I don't know when they implemented it. – Ogglas Nov 25 '15 at 12:03

dmmd · Answer 2 · 2012-07-26T21:22:32.627

So..

Tried to contact support via twitter and comments on the API page. Didn't get an answer...

And it seems that they really don't have a method to create forks.

My solution:

Created a cURL interface to interact with BitBucket's website, and from there I could fork and create pull requests

If you have a better solution for that, or if they actually have the method on the API, please fell free to drop your answer here.

Follow up: https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/4376/api-method-to-fork-a-repository

Hadi Khosrojerdi · Answer 3 · 2014-02-11T23:36:07.590

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you can to fork the repositories using Bitbucket API without need to username and password, only using bitbucket application.

There is HERE the doc's for POST a new fork.

Also you need to base knowledge of OAuth, following links are helpful .

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edited Feb 11 '14 at 23:36

answered Feb 11 '14 at 13:56

Hadi Khosrojerdi

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Please add some description here. – Parixit Feb 11 '14 at 14:15

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 01 '22 at 21:51

2022 TLDR;

Bitbucket cloud 2.0 API with minimal required fields (API Ref) as far as I can tell:

POST https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/repositories/{workspace}/{repo_slug}/forks

{
  "is_private": true,
  "scm": "git",
  "name": {new_workspace},
  "workspace":{
      "slug":{new_reposlug}
  }
}

For example, imagine you have repo foo in workspace sandbox. And you want to make a fork foo-fork in the same workspace.

POST https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/repositories/sandbox/foo/forks

{
  "is_private": true,
  "scm": "git",
  "name": "foo-fork",
  "workspace":{
      "slug":"sandbox"
  }
}

The response is quite large and will show al the other optional request fields

Using BitBucket's API to fork a repository

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