RequestTimeoutError with 1.0/groups endpoint

Summary

When retrieving a user group for a workspace using the Bitbucket Cloud Groups Endpoint API the API succeeds sometimes and sometimes it fails with a "request timeout error". This page's objective is to provide a workaround for listing groups and their members within a given workspace using Bitbucket Cloud Group Endpoint.

Environment

Bitbucket Cloud

Cause

Bitbucket Cloud API's maximum allowed response time is around 28 seconds. If the workspace has a lot of groups and members then there is a probability that API would return *request timeout error*.

Bitbucket Cloud Group Endpoint API

Solution

To make the API performant, the workaround is to use the `exclude_members=true` query string param. Then, for each group get the members with a separate API request.

• Fetch all groups from https://bitbucket.org/!api/1.0/groups/<workspace>?exclude_members=true

• Iteratively fetch all group members from https://bitbucket.org/!api/1.0/groups/<workspace>/<group>/members