Summary

In some cases, a Bitbucket Administrator will be required to update the public access of repositories in bulk, and updating via the UI can become tedious and time-consuming.
This task can easily be accomplished by running a cURL command on a REST endpoint.

Environment

Bitbucket Server or Data Center

Solution

Allow public access to a repository

curl -u <username> --location --request PUT 'https://host:port/rest/api/latest/projects/<project-key>/repos/<reposlug>' \
	--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
	--data-raw '{"public": true}'

Deny public access to a repository

curl -u <username> --location --request PUT 'https://host:port/rest/api/latest/projects/<project-key>/repos/<reposlug>' \
	--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
	--data-raw '{"public": false}'

Reference

Further information on https://docs.atlassian.com/bitbucket-server/rest/<bitbucket-server-version>/bitbucket-rest.html