Bitbucket

Bitbucket
URL	https://bitbucket.org/
Status	Online!
Archiving status	Not saved yet
Archiving type	Unknown
IRC channel	#kickthebucket (on hackint)
Language(s)	Multilingual

Bitbucket is a version control repository hosting service, marketed mostly towards proprietary and enterprise software but with a substantial FLOSS presence.

Mercurial repositories

It announced on 2019-08-20 that it would be ending Mercurial support to focus exclusively on Git. Creating new Mercurial repositories was disabled on 2020-02-01, and all Mercurial repositories and API were to be removed on 2020-07-01. The actual removal happened in mid-August 2020.

Archival

Bitbucket Mercurial web content
Status	Offline
Archiving status	Saved!
Archiving type	Unknown
Project source	bitbucket-grab
Project tracker	bitbucket
IRC channel	#kickthebucket (on hackint)
Data[how to use]	archiveteam_bitbucket

Our archival was based on an enumeration of Mercurial repositories from Bitbucket's search API after the February lockdown. Repositories were still writable until they were made read-only in early July. Although the API returns an updated-on field, it is not clear whether this is the repository or its metadata.

The project was split into two parts: the actual hg repositories were retrieved through the Mercurial project (developed for this but reusable for hg repositories in general), and bitbucket covered the web interface (issues, pull requests, wikis, etc.). Apart from around 200 odd repositories, we managed to archive everything successfully.

Statistics

• Total repos online: 245,068
• Total reported size (fairly accurate): 5.23 TiB (does this include hg compression?)
• Mean reported size: 22.4 MiB
• Median reported size: 205 KiB
• Maximum reported size: 14.4 GiB

Existing discussion and tooling

• Forum thread
  • Some user questions
  • Atlassian's response
• https://github.com/clach04/bitbucket_tools
• https://github.com/philipstarkey/bitbucket-hg-exporter

Empty and Inactive workspaces

Inactive Bitbucket workspaces
URL	https://bitbucket.org/
Status	Offline
Archiving status	Saved!
Archiving type	DPoS
Project source	bitbucket2-grab bitbucket2-items
Project tracker	bitbucket2
IRC channel	#kickthebucket (on hackint)

It was announced in 2025-11-10 that Atlassian would be deactivating and deleting empty workspaces 2025-12-09, and deactivating inactive workspaces 2026-01-15 and then deleting deactivated workspaces 2026-05-15.

Site structure

Some API requires auth, some does not. Rate limits are documented here.