Get a snippet

Retrieves a single snippet.

Snippets support multiple content types:

• application/json
• multipart/related
• multipart/form-data

application/json

The default content type of the response is application/json. Since JSON is always utf-8, it cannot reliably contain file contents for files that are not text. Therefore, JSON snippet documents only contain the filename and links to the file contents.

This means that in order to retrieve all parts of a snippet, N+1 requests need to be made (where N is the number of files in the snippet).

multipart/related

To retrieve an entire snippet in a single response, use the Accept: multipart/related HTTP request header.

$ curl -H "Accept: multipart/related" https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/snippets/evzijst/1

Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 2214
Content-Type: multipart/related; start="snippet"; boundary="===============1438169132528273974=="
MIME-Version: 1.0

--===============1438169132528273974==
Content-Type: application/json; charset="utf-8"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-ID: snippet

{
  "links": {
    "self": {
      "href": "https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/snippets/evzijst/kypj"
    },
    "html": {
      "href": "https://bitbucket.org/snippets/evzijst/kypj"
    },
    "comments": {
      "href": "https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/snippets/evzijst/kypj/comments"
    },
    "watchers": {
      "href": "https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/snippets/evzijst/kypj/watchers"
    },
    "commits": {
      "href": "https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/snippets/evzijst/kypj/commits"
    }
  },
  "id": kypj,
  "title": "My snippet",
  "created_on": "2014-12-29T22:22:04.790331+00:00",
  "updated_on": "2014-12-29T22:22:04.790331+00:00",
  "is_private": false,
  "files": {
    "foo.txt": {
      "links": {
        "self": {
          "href": "https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/snippets/evzijst/kypj/files/367ab19/foo.txt"
        },
        "html": {
          "href": "https://bitbucket.org/snippets/evzijst/kypj#file-foo.txt"
        }
      }
    },
    "image.png": {
      "links": {
        "self": {
          "href": "https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/snippets/evzijst/kypj/files/367ab19/image.png"
        },
        "html": {
          "href": "https://bitbucket.org/snippets/evzijst/kypj#file-image.png"
        }
      }
    }
  ],
  "owner": {
    "username": "evzijst",
    "nickname": "evzijst",
    "display_name": "Erik van Zijst",
    "uuid": "{d301aafa-d676-4ee0-88be-962be7417567}",
    "links": {
      "self": {
        "href": "https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/users/evzijst"
      },
      "html": {
        "href": "https://bitbucket.org/evzijst"
      },
      "avatar": {
        "href": "https://bitbucket-staging-assetroot.s3.amazonaws.com/c/photos/2013/Jul/31/erik-avatar-725122544-0_avatar.png"
      }
    }
  },
  "creator": {
    "username": "evzijst",
    "nickname": "evzijst",
    "display_name": "Erik van Zijst",
    "uuid": "{d301aafa-d676-4ee0-88be-962be7417567}",
    "links": {
      "self": {
        "href": "https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/users/evzijst"
      },
      "html": {
        "href": "https://bitbucket.org/evzijst"
      },
      "avatar": {
        "href": "https://bitbucket-staging-assetroot.s3.amazonaws.com/c/photos/2013/Jul/31/erik-avatar-725122544-0_avatar.png"
      }
    }
  }
}

--===============1438169132528273974==
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-ID: "foo.txt"
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="foo.txt"

foo

--===============1438169132528273974==
Content-Type: image/png
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-ID: "image.png"
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="image.png"

iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAoCAYAAAD+MdrbAAABD0lEQVR4Ae3VMUoDQRTG8ccUaW2m
TKONFxArJYJamCvkCnZTaa+VnQdJSBFl2SMsLFrEWNjZBZs0JgiL/+KrhhVmJRbCLPx4O+/DT2TB
cbblJxf+UWFVVRNsEGAtgvJxnLm2H+A5RQ93uIl+3632PZyl/skjfOn9Gvdwmlcw5aPUwimG+NT5
EnNN036IaZePUuIcK533NVfal7/5yjWeot2z9ta1cAczHEf7I+3J0ws9Cgx0fsOFpmlfwKcWPuBQ
73Oc4FHzBaZ8llq4q1mr5B2mOUCt815qYR8eB1hG2VJ7j35q4RofaH7IG+Xrf/PfJhfmwtfFYoIN
AqxFUD6OMxcvkO+UfKfkOyXfKdsv/AYCHMLVkHAFWgAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==
--===============1438169132528273974==--

multipart/form-data

As with creating new snippets, multipart/form-data can be used as an alternative to multipart/related. However, the inherently flat structure of form-data means that only basic, root-level properties can be returned, while nested elements like links are omitted:

$ curl -H "Accept: multipart/form-data" https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/snippets/evzijst/kypj

Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 951
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----------------------------63a4b224c59f

------------------------------63a4b224c59f
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="title"
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

My snippet
------------------------------63a4b224c59f--
Content-Disposition: attachment; name="file"; filename="foo.txt"
Content-Type: text/plain

foo

------------------------------63a4b224c59f
Content-Disposition: attachment; name="file"; filename="image.png"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Type: application/octet-stream

iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABQAAAAoCAYAAAD+MdrbAAABD0lEQVR4Ae3VMUoDQRTG8ccUaW2m
TKONFxArJYJamCvkCnZTaa+VnQdJSBFl2SMsLFrEWNjZBZs0JgiL/+KrhhVmJRbCLPx4O+/DT2TB
cbblJxf+UWFVVRNsEGAtgvJxnLm2H+A5RQ93uIl+3632PZyl/skjfOn9Gvdwmlcw5aPUwimG+NT5
EnNN036IaZePUuIcK533NVfal7/5yjWeot2z9ta1cAczHEf7I+3J0ws9Cgx0fsOFpmlfwKcWPuBQ
73Oc4FHzBaZ8llq4q1mr5B2mOUCt815qYR8eB1hG2VJ7j35q4RofaH7IG+Xrf/PfJhfmwtfFYoIN
AqxFUD6OMxcvkO+UfKfkOyXfKdsv/AYCHMLVkHAFWgAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==
------------------------------5957323a6b76--