How to manage users and groups in Bitbucket Use case: I want to maintain users and groups and their access to repositories in an organization in Bitbucket. To make sure I do not miss newly changed admin access, I want to use the Bitbucket API to retrieve the list of permissions on repository basis and on user/group bases. Setup Bitbucket requires a username and password to access the API. This information is stored in environment variables BBUSER and BBPASSWORD.

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Mirroring large number of GitHub or Bitbucket repositories Use case: I want to create local clone of a large number of repositories from an organization in GitHub / Bitbucket. Assumptions user has SSH key registered with the GH / BB - can clone using ssh protocol user has successfully cloned at least one repo from command line before (the /etc/hosts contains host entries for BB and GH) user has modern version of Python 3 installed (3.

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How to list repositories in GitHub Use Case: I want to maintain repositories in an organization in GitHub. To make sure I do not miss newly added ones, I want to use API access to retrieve the list of repositories in the organization. Setup GitHub requires a token to access the API. This token is stored in an environment variable github_token and can be generated in the user profile section - settings - developer settings.

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How to list repositories in Bitbucket Use case: I want to maintain repositories in an organization in Bitbucket. To make sure I do not miss newly added ones, I want to use API access to retrieve the list of all repositories in the organization. Setup Bitbucket requires a username and password to access the API. This information is stored in the environment variables BBUSER and BBPASSWORD. The BBPASSWORD should be an access token / app password defined in the App passwords section of the user settings:

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Background With modern technologies and available Frameworks, we have successfully eliminated the complexities involved in building an end to end Application and have eased the entire development and deployment process to a great extent. As we finish writing the Application and our next goal is to publish it as an open source project or push it to production, a major component that will make the code more appealing and useful is having a proper documentation about the nitty-gritty involved in the development process.

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