remotes::install_bitbucket() stopped working

Question

For many months now, I've been using remotes::install_bitbucket() from a Docker container to download a private Bitbucket repo and install an R package. March 10, it seems to have stopped working with the error:

Error : Failed to install 'unknown package' from Bitbucket:
  cannot open URL 'https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/repositories/myRepoUsername/myRepo/src/HEAD/DESCRIPTION'

• remotes version is 2.3.0
• I have not changed the Docker image, so remotes and everything else unchanged
• This fails from my local machine with the same error message March 11 (also v2.3.0)
• Bitbucket's website shows me my package is still there with no new commits

Does anyone know if this is a temporary problem, a Bitbucket API change, or something else?

All help is appreciated! :)

Answer 1

I'm not sure it is related - but around that time Bitbucket changed their Authentication to use an Application Password instead of your usual password. You could try setting one up in your bitbucket account and using that to test if it works?