The Scenario
You are a security engineer. Your quarterly review is on Monday. The task: find every file across the company's Bitbucket workspace containing the string API_KEY = and produce an Excel workbook listing repo name, file path, and matched line for each hit.
The workspace has 22 repositories. Bitbucket's code search returns results in a paginated web UI. Getting those results into Excel means copying from a browser into a workbook, one page at a time.
The bad version of this weekend:
- You run the code search in Bitbucket's web UI and get forty-three results across twelve repos
- You start copying: repo name, file path, line content — row by row
- Bitbucket shows twenty-five per page, so you click to page two
- You lose your place on the paste and duplicate three rows
- By Sunday evening you have a workbook that might have duplicates and you are not certain you got all forty-three hits
- You walk into the Monday review with a note saying "data may contain duplicates."
The fast version is one prompt.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent inside your Excel workbook that runs the Bitbucket code search via the API, pages through all results, deduplicates, and writes every match into the workbook.
Open the SheetXAI sidebar and type:
Search Bitbucket workspace 'acme-corp' for the code pattern 'API_KEY =' across all repositories. For each match, write repo name, file path, and matched line content into columns A through C of the Audit tab. Remove any duplicate rows.
SheetXAI calls the Bitbucket search API, handles all result pages, deduplicates, and writes the clean table.
What You Get
A flat audit table with one row per code match:
- Repo name — which repository the match appeared in
- File path — the full path within the repo
- Matched line — the line containing the pattern
No duplicates, no missing pages. The deduplication runs inline so the compliance submission does not require a manual cleanup pass.
Want to add a column showing which file extension each match came from? Ask SheetXAI to extract the extension from the file path in column D. It appends it in the same prompt.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Code search results from Bitbucket need reshaping for most security reviews.
When the matched line includes leading whitespace or comment markers
The raw matched lines often include formatting characters that make pattern comparison harder.
Search Bitbucket workspace 'acme-corp' for 'API_KEY =' across all repos. Write repo name, file path, and matched line in columns A through C of the Audit tab. In column D, write the matched line trimmed of leading and trailing whitespace and with any leading comment characters (# or //) stripped.
When you want the file extension as a separate column for risk grouping
You suspect the pattern is most common in .env files and .py files and want to group by extension.
Search Bitbucket workspace 'acme-corp' for 'API_KEY =' across all repos. Write repo name, file path, and matched line in columns A through C of the Audit tab. In column D, extract and write the file extension from the file path.
When certain repos should be excluded from the audit
Two repos are sandbox environments where test keys are intentionally present.
Search Bitbucket workspace 'acme-corp' for 'API_KEY =' across all repos. Exclude results from repos named 'sandbox-env' and 'dev-playground'. Write repo name, file path, and matched line into columns A through C of the Audit tab.
When the security lead needs a summary by repo alongside the raw findings
The executive summary needs to show which repos have the most exposure.
Search Bitbucket workspace 'acme-corp' for 'API_KEY =' across all repos, excluding 'sandbox-env' and 'dev-playground'. Write the full results on the Raw tab — repo name, file path, matched line in columns A through C. On the Summary tab, write each repo name and its match count, sorted descending by count.
The pattern: the audit evidence and the risk summary come from one prompt. The security lead gets both views without a second Bitbucket search.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and ask it to search your Bitbucket workspace for any code pattern and write the results into a blank Excel workbook. The Bitbucket integration is included in every SheetXAI plan. For related workflows, see exporting code quality report annotations in Excel or the Bitbucket in Excel overview.