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Bitbucket Pipelines Refs API

The refs resource allows you access branches and tags in a repository.By default, results will be in the order the underlying source controlsystem returns them and identical to the ordering one sees when running"$ git show-ref". Note that this follows simple lexical ordering of the ref names.

Bitbucket Pipelines Refs API is one of 23 APIs that Bitbucket Pipelines publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Refs. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, an API reference, and authentication docs.

This API exposes 9 operations across 5 paths, and defines 20 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 2.0, at version 2.0.

Requests are made against the base URL https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0.

9 operations 5 paths 20 schemas 2 DELETE5 GET2 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 2.0
API Version
2.0
Base URL
https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0
Authentication
basic, OAuth 2.0, API Key
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 3

Bitbucket Pipelines Refs API declares 3 security schemes for authenticating requests. It defines a basic scheme (basic). It supports OAuth 2.0 (oauth2) using the accessCode flow, exposing 26 scopes. An API key is passed in the header as Authorization (api_key).

  • basic — Basic HTTP Authentication as per [RFC-2617](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2617) (Digest not supported). Note that Basic Auth is available only with username a…
  • oauth2 — OAuth 2 as per [RFC-6749](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749).
  • api_key — API Keys can be used as Basic HTTP Authentication credentials and provide a substitute for the account's actual username and password. API Keys are only availa…

Paths & Operations 9

Across 5 paths, the API surfaces 9 operations — 2 DELETE, 5 GET, 2 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Refs 9

The refs resource allows you access branches and tags in a repository. By default, results will be in the order the underlying source control system returns them and identical to…

GET
/repositories/{workspace}/{repo_slug}/refs
List branches and tags
4 params → 200403404
GET
/repositories/{workspace}/{repo_slug}/refs/branches
List open branches
4 params → 200403404
POST
/repositories/{workspace}/{repo_slug}/refs/branches
Create a branch
2 params → 201403404
DELETE
/repositories/{workspace}/{repo_slug}/refs/branches/{name}
Delete a branch
3 params → 204403404
GET
/repositories/{workspace}/{repo_slug}/refs/branches/{name}
Get a branch
3 params → 200403404
GET
/repositories/{workspace}/{repo_slug}/refs/tags
List tags
4 params → 200403404
POST
/repositories/{workspace}/{repo_slug}/refs/tags
Create a tag
3 params → 201400
DELETE
/repositories/{workspace}/{repo_slug}/refs/tags/{name}
Delete a tag
3 params → 204403404
GET
/repositories/{workspace}/{repo_slug}/refs/tags/{name}
Get a tag
3 params → 200403404

Schemas 20

The contract defines 20 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are paginated_branches (6 properties), paginated_tags (6 properties), paginated_refs (6 properties), ref (4 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

project
base_commit
object
object
Base type for most resource objects. It defines the common type element that identifies an object's type. It also identifies the element as Swagger's discrimin…
1 property 1 required
account
branch
participant
team_links
ref
object
A ref object, representing a branch or tag in a repository.
4 properties 1 required
author
error
object
Base type for most resource objects. It defines the common type element that identifies an object's type. It also identifies the element as Swagger's discrimin…
2 properties 1 required
paginated_tags
object
A paginated list of tags.
6 properties
committer
paginated_branches
object
A paginated list of branches.
6 properties
tag
account_links
object
Links related to an Account.
1 property
commit
repository
link
object
A link to a resource related to this object.
2 properties
team
paginated_refs
object
A paginated list of refs.
6 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

bitbucket-pipelines-refs-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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