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Bitbucket Cloud / Reference / REST APIs

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Authentication methods

Postman Collection
OpenAPI

The purpose of this section is to describe how to authenticate when making API calls using the Bitbucket REST API.



Basic auth

Basic HTTP Authentication as per RFC-2617 (Digest not supported). Note that Basic Auth is available only with username and app password as credentials.

Access Tokens