Cannot npm install from bitbucket repo

Question

I'm trying to install a private package recently moved from github to bitbucket.

npm install [email protected]:owner/repo.git

ends up with

npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/git

(note package in the url) with this error:

npm ERR! notarget No compatible version found: git@'bitbucket.org:flyvictor/fortune-secruity.git'

(note a ' just after @)

I tried to escape @, wrap repo name in quotes, but always get same result.

For github we use urls formatted as git://github.com/owner/repo#v.v.v and this works fine! But if I use same syntax for bitbucket npm just hangs doing nothing.

Any idea?

p.s. keys, access right and so one are correct. I can contribute to these repos, clone them with git, but not to npm install. Github packages that get installed well are also private.

Answer 1

npm install git+ssh://[email protected]/{user}/{repository}.git

Answer 2

npm install bitbucket:<bitbucketname>/<bitbucketrepo>

Answer 3

Declaimer: As Eric Uldall said: this method is easy but it lacks security. You have now committed a password in plain text to your repository. That's how is working out lately for me, but not recommended.

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Straight from the npm Documentation for the install command:

$ npm install bitbucket:<bitbucketname>/<bitbucketrepo>[#<commit-ish>]

Example:

$ npm install bitbucket:mybitbucketuser/myproject

The Yarn documentation for add as of today Feb 28, 2019 doesn't have support for git repositories.

The above example didn't work for me with private repositories, because you will need to generate a token to use it. How is that?

Login to your Bitbucket account and under user settings add an app password:

Then you can add the dependency to your package.json as:

"dependencies": {
    "module": "git+https://<username>:<app-password>@bitbucket.org/<owner>/<repo>.git"
}

or on your terminal type:

npm install git+https://<username>:<app-password>@bitbucket.org/<repo-owner>/<repo>.git

Don't forget to replace:

• username: with your username
• password: with your app password
• repo-owner: with the owner of the repo
• repo: with the repository name of the module