[Bitbucket Cloud] Authentication keeps failing.

I’m trying to authenticate for bitbucket.org using [e-mail]. I created an API Token and I am using it as a password.

`bitbucket = Bitbucket( url=‘https://api.bitbucket.org’, username=os.getenv(“BITBUCKET_USER”), password=os.getenv(“BITBUCKET_PASSWORD”), cloud=True)

repo = bitbucket.get_repo(‘PROJECT’, ‘REPO’) `

This gets me a requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 401 Client Error: Unauthorized for url: https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/projects/PROJECT/repos/REPO

I’m a noob and I am totally fine being told that I have done a stupid but I can’t seem to get the authorization to work. I am willing to add documentation for bitbucket cloud if someone tells me how this is supposed to work.

[jensvog]

Hi @gonchik, I think this issue can be closed. The error is because the thread starter used his E-Mail and an API Token (App password) for authentication. As mentioned, if you use an API Token (App password), you have to use your bitbucket username for log-in. That is a limitation from Bitbucket. It does not work with the E-Mail.

If you are using app passwords you have to use your username instead of your E-Mail. You can find your username under: Your profile and settings -> Account settings -> Bitbucket profile settings. Source

This is now also stated in the documentation by the PR mentioned above.

[gonchik]

@jensvog thank you for your input and changes!