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Bitbucket Download Directory

Python script to download/shallow clone the files of a directory at bitbucket. This is useful when you just want a copy of the files in a subdirectory of a repository without needing mercurial or having to download the entire repository.

#!/usr/bin/env python
import os
import sys
import urllib
from urlparse import urlparse
try : import json
except : import simplejson as json
def open_directory(API_PATH, username, repo_slug, path):
directory_url = "%s/%s/%s/%s" % (API_PATH, username, repo_slug, path)
json_data_url_handle = urllib.urlopen(directory_url)
if json_data_url_handle.code != 200:
print "url %s not found" % directory_url
exit()
json_directory = json.loads(json_data_url_handle.read())
for directory in json_directory['directories']:
open_directory(API_PATH, username, repo_slug, path + "/" + directory)
for file in json_directory['files']:
try:
os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(file['path']))
except OSError:
None
print "downloading %s" % file['path']
urllib.urlretrieve("%s/%s/%s/raw/%s/%s" % (API_PATH, username, repo_slug, file['revision'], file['path']), file['path'])
if (len(sys.argv) != 2 or sys.argv[1].find("https://bitbucket.org/") != 0 or sys.argv[1].find("/src/") == -1):
print "usage: python bitbucket_download.py https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/src/b590cf6de419/demo/"
print "find the url by going to the source tab of a repository and browse to the directory you want to download"
exit()
API_PATH = "https://api.bitbucket.org/1.0/repositories"
null, username, repo_slug, path = urlparse(sys.argv[1]).path.split("/", 3)
open_directory(API_PATH, username, repo_slug, path)
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col000r commented Sep 27, 2018

This is great, thanks so much!

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