The Scenario
You are a security engineer. Your quarterly review is on Monday. The task: find every file across the company's Bitbucket workspace that contains a hardcoded secret pattern — specifically the string API_KEY = — and produce a sheet listing repo name, file path, and the matched line for each hit.
The workspace has 22 repositories. You do not know which ones contain the pattern. Bitbucket's code search can find it, but it returns results in a paginated web UI, not in a spreadsheet.
The bad version of this weekend:
- You run the Bitbucket search for
API_KEY =in the web UI - Bitbucket returns forty-three results across twelve repos
- You start copying: repo name, file path, line content — one by one
- Bitbucket paginates at twenty-five results, so you click to page two
- You lose your place and copy three rows twice
- By the time you have the sheet ready it is Sunday evening
- You walk into the Monday review with a sheet that might have duplicates.
The fast version is one prompt and the sheet is ready before dinner.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent inside your Google Sheet that can run the Bitbucket code search via the API, handle all pages of results, and write every match into the sheet without duplicates.
Open the SheetXAI sidebar and type:
Search Bitbucket workspace 'acme-corp' for the code pattern 'API_KEY =' across all repositories. For each match, write the repo name, file path, and matched line content into columns A through C. Remove any duplicate rows.
SheetXAI calls the Bitbucket code search API, pages through the full result set, deduplicates, and writes every match into the sheet. Clean, complete, ready for review.
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 (e.g.
src/config/secrets.py) - Matched line — the line containing the pattern, exactly as it appears in the file
No duplicates, no missing pages. The deduplication step runs inline, so if the API returns overlapping pages you are not presenting the compliance team with twenty rows that are actually ten rows listed twice.
Want to group by repo so the reviewer can see which repos are the worst offenders? Ask SheetXAI to add a column with the count of matches per repo, or to sort by repo name. Both work in the same prompt.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Code search results often need reshaping before they are useful for a security review.
When the matched line includes surrounding whitespace or comment markers
The raw matched lines from Bitbucket sometimes include leading whitespace or comment characters that make 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. In column D, write the matched line trimmed of leading and trailing whitespace and with any leading comment characters (# or //) stripped.
When you want to flag which file extensions are most exposed
You suspect the pattern appears most in .env files and .py files. You want the extension visible as a separate column.
Search Bitbucket workspace 'acme-corp' for 'API_KEY =' across all repos. Write repo name, file path, and matched line in columns A through C. In column D, extract and write the file extension from the file path (e.g. '.py', '.env', '.js').
When certain repos should be excluded from the audit
Two repos are sandbox environments that are intentionally allowed to have test keys. You want them excluded.
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.
When the review needs a summary count by repo alongside the raw results
The security lead wants to know at a glance which repos have the most exposure, not just the raw list.
Search Bitbucket workspace 'acme-corp' for 'API_KEY =' across all repos, excluding 'sandbox-env' and 'dev-playground'. Write the full results — repo name, file path, matched line — on the Raw tab in columns A through C. On the Summary tab, write each repo name and the count of matches for that repo, sorted descending by count.
The pattern: the raw audit evidence and the executive summary land in one prompt, so the security lead gets the detail view and the risk overview without you building the rollup by hand.
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 sheet. The Bitbucket integration is included in every SheetXAI plan. For related workflows, see exporting code quality report annotations or the Bitbucket in Google Sheets overview.