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Asked: May 26, 20262026-05-26T13:46:52+00:00 2026-05-26T13:46:52+00:00

We would like to use mercurial for web development, but we can’t (and don’t

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We would like to use mercurial for web development, but we can’t (and don’t want to) install mercurial on a shared host. We try to use wget as mentioned here, but I get 401 error.
Credentials and link are correct (modified for security).

Is there a way to download source from command line?

Is this bug or am i doing something wrong?

Response below:

$ wget _http://xxxx:yyyyyyy@bitbucket.org/username/repo/get/be51983f6357.zip 
--2011-10-31 00:26:50--
http://username:password@bitbucket.org/username/repo/get/be51983f6357.zip 
Resolving bitbucket.org... 207.223.240.182, 207.223.240.181 
Connecting to bitbucket.org|207.223.240.182|:80... connected. 

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 
301 Moved Permanently Location: https://bitbucket.org/username/repo/get/be51983f6357.zip [following] 
--2011-10-31 00:26:51-- 
https://bitbucket.org/username/repo/get/get/be51983f6357.zip 
Connecting to bitbucket.org|207.223.240.182|:443... connected. 
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 
401 UNAUTHORIZED Authorization failed.

Take 2:

Thanx for help… i changed http to https and user user & password attributes:

Browser works fine, Wget does not…

$ wget --verbose --user=XXXXX --password=YYYY  https://bitbucket.org/ekku/REPO/get/aabbccddeee.zip
--2011-10-31 18:27:10--  https://bitbucket.org/ekku/REPO/get/aabbccddeee.zip
Resolving bitbucket.org... 207.223.240.182, 207.223.240.181
Connecting to bitbucket.org|207.223.240.182|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 UNAUTHORIZED
Failed writing HTTP request: Bad file descriptor.
Retrying.

Take 3:

I also tried curl, but i get error message:
Forbidden (403)
CSRF verification failed. Request aborted.

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    2026-05-26T13:46:53+00:00Added an answer on May 26, 2026 at 1:46 pm

    I got it working with curl:

    curl --digest --user username:password https://bitbucket.org/user/repo/get/tip.zip -o test.zip    
    

    Answer from Bitbucket: Issue #3225 – Commanline download compressed tip

    Hi Esa, We don’t actually support basic auth for downloads of source bundles. You need to use digest auth. Also, from what I understand, wget has a bug with its digest auth implementation. You can use curl with the –digest flag and the -o flag to specify your output file. Cheers, Dylan

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