git - Download private BitBucket repository zip file using http authentication

Question

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:[email protected]/user/repo/get/commit.zip

However, instead of accomplishing the task it redirects to the login page on BitBucket.

Answer 1

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://[email protected]/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