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Hello, I am trying to access my Box app with Python code, that is using JWT to authenticate. Here is my code: from boxsdk import JWTAuth from boxsdk import Client from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.serialization import load_pem_private_key import json import base64 private_key_fpath = "/path/to/PrivatKey.pem" #Settings below generated by the Box Developer Console settings_fpath = "/path/to/1234__config.json" with open(private_key_fpath, "rb") as key_file: priv_rsakey = load_pem_private_key(key_file.read(), password=None) with open(settings_fpath, "r") as f: settings = json.loads(f.read()) settings['boxAppSettings']['appAuth']["privateKey"] = priv_rsakey auth = JWTAuth.from_settings_dictionary( settings ) access_token = auth.authenticate_instance() I get the following error BoxOAuthException: Message: "kid" invalid, unable to lookup correct key Status: 400 URL: https://api.box.com/

Hello Box Community, I am currently using Box Drive and monitoring file events with its Webhooks. I’m curious to know if it’s possible to retrieve the version history of files using Box Drive Webhooks. Specifically, I’d like to retrieve the version history related to changes made to a file, and I’m particularly interested in detecting if a file version has been reverted. If anyone in the Box community knows how to retrieve file version history using Box Drive Webhooks, I would greatly appreciate any insights you can provide. Thank you very much.

Hello, I’m fairly new to box and want to download a publicly available repo which is fairly large in size (>1 TB). How can I parse through the whole repo and download all the files? Right now, the only way to do this is by manually download each file, and the repo has >7,000 files. This is quite frustrating and impractical. Are there any obvious solutions to this that I might have missed? Thanks

Hello Getting exception “Request timed out” since Friday 4/12 through today on downloads using Box C# client var stream = await client.FilesManager.DownloadAsync(BoxID); On Saturday could not download any files Now it seems after program start, 1 or 2 downloads in a row work fine and then it hits a wall, restarting program over and over is the short term fix. Integration has been in place since 2020 Program has not changed lately Can access Box.com UI fine and download files too. Thank You!

Hello, I am trying to build a Blazor web app that uses Box’s API, and I’m struggling to implement OAuth2 authentication. I followed the instructions/documentation listed here: https://developer.box.com/guides/authentication/oauth2/with-sdk/ , but I’m having issues with obtaining the authorization code once I’m redirected to my app. Below is the code I have so far; it works as expected until I reach that final step. Any help will be greatly appreciated. -Code- private async Task OAuth2() { string authorizationUrl = "https://account.box.com/api/oauth2/authorize?client_id=" + clientID + "&response_type=code"; // Configure SDK var config = new BoxConfig(clientID, clientSecret, new Uri(redirectUrl)); var sdk = new BoxClient(config); //Redirect user RedirectToAuthUrl(authorizationUrl); // Exchange code - TODO: Get auth code to ex

Hi! I have a client who wants me to back up ALL the files on an old Ubuntu 14.04.6 LTS system to box.com. It’s a headless server (no gui) and they need every single file. There’s about 850 GB across 1,948,569 files in there. The largest file is only 2.4 GB. There are a few directories with a large number of files in them. The biggest count is 457,703 files in a single directory. They say they have unlimited box.com space and do not want to setup storage with another provider. I’m not sure I can run the box cli on this version of linux, and from what I’ve read, it doesn’t seem like it would be appropriate for something this big. I feel like FTPS would be the right thing (for box), but I can’t login to it from my personal account. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!

Hi Team, We are trying to set the unshared_at value to update the publicly shared folder to be accessible for 10 minutes only, with this endpoint, https://developer.box.com/reference/put-folders-id/#param-shared_link-unshared_at We do have a paid account However we are getting the below response : { "reason": "invalid_parameter", "name": "unshared_at", "message": "Invalid value '1712055223'." } Could anyone help with this error

I have a business enterprise web application that I built in PHP and it is hosted on BlueHost. I have an entity named Attachment that is a many to one to a separate entity called Ticket. The Attachment entity represents a file attachment for a Ticket. The way it currently works to upload it is: I give the file a unique name (random GUID + extension) I upload the file to the file system I save a new instance of the record referencing the filename in the database Then to download it I: Get the Attachment record by its Id Search the file system by the filename defined in the record Return the file by its filename This worked fine, but I ran into an issue where I was running out of memory on the server, so I talked with the client and convinced them to a cloud based storage solution and we settled on Box. Now I’m attempting to migrate from using the file system to using Box. I have al

Need advice on how to pull from salesforce to box without file size limitation

In implementing a flow within the OAuth authentication process that always prompts users to select an account, is my understanding correct that there are currently no parameters available for this purpose? developer.box.com Authorize user - API Reference - Box Developer Documentation Explore the Box APIs and SDKs to use for app development, API documentation, developer supp

Box and Salesforce integration using Box for Salesforce. When you create a record in Salesforce using Box for Salesforce, a folder is created on the Box side. If you do not reference the Salesforce record at this time, the user will not be granted privileges to the Box folder. Therefore, even if a folder is created, most users will have to go to Salesforce to see the corresponding record in order to access the folder. Is there a better way to grant privileges without access to the records? I tried Box tool kit createCollaboration and https://api.box.com/2.0/collaborations, but this one did not create a FRUP record and the Box for Salesforce delete batch did not work properly.

I am scratching my head here. Box Embed offers a ‘view’ parameter to allow you to set list or grid view, however I need programatically set Content Explorer to default to grid view when loading (it is for a content portal of photographs, so thumbnails are much easier to view than generic file icons). Any ideas here anyone?

I am trying to query files based on their metadata template that contain an ampersand ex: “A/7-8&9/389-399” using node box sdk metadata query method but it does not return values. It matches other values that do not have ampersand. Is there a way to handle special characters when trying to query them. I notice it works only if the query is setup as shown below var from = 'enterprise_someid.somekey', ancestorFolderId = 'somefolderid', options = { query : "DocumentId ILIKE :arg1 OR bookAndPageNumber = :arg2", query_params: { arg1: '%' + params + '%', arg2: params }, limit: 10 }; type or paste code here If i include the pattern matching operation it does not work var from = 'enterprise_someid.somekey', ancestorFolderId = 'somefolderid', options = {

Hello, I am looking to create a Python script that can read from and write to Box. I followed the Box Dev instructions and created an App, so that I can use the generated Client ID and Client Secret to authenticate with JWT. Am I able to restrict the scope of the Client ID and Client Secret to certain directories? I would like my app to have read/write access for a subset of Box directories, and to be restricted from read/write permissions to all others. Thanks, Alex

Using the API, is there any way to get download/preview counts when you create a shared link for a folder? I can see counts on the files in the folder through the web interface, but files returned by the api don’t have shared link data which is where the counts would show if the individual files had a shared link. The shared link data related to the folder returned by the api exists, but the download/preview counts are always 0. I wasn’t really expecting them to be anything else, but those are the only counts I can find that have any value at all. I suppose I can create a shared link of each individual file in addition to the folder, but I was hoping to avoid that. Thanks!

I was trying to create the webhook but i encounter this error while creating it Anyone know what was the reason of it?

I am trying to create a shared link from a not root box folder by Java SDK using an enterprise account credential. log.info("Start createSharedLink. id: {}, canDownload: {}, canPreview: {}", id, canDownload, canPreview); BoxFolder folder = new BoxFolder(boxProvider.getConnect(), id); BoxSharedLinkRequest boxSharedLinkRequest = new BoxSharedLinkRequest() .permissions(canDownload, canPreview) .access(BoxSharedLink.Access.COLLABORATORS) .unsharedDate(Date.valueOf(LocalDate.now().plusDays(3))); BoxSharedLink sharedLink = folder.createSharedLink(boxSharedLinkRequest); log.info("End createSharedLink. Created Url is: [{}]", sharedLink.getURL()); This request can work when I use either of following" BoxSharedLink.Access.COMPANY BoxSharedLink.Access.DEFAULT BoxSharedLink.Access.OPEN But only when I use COLLABORATORS, it will return me a

I’ve created a Box free account and trying to access the box APIs using Postman. I have used Auth 2.0 flow and successfully authenticated to generate an access token. While I’m able to perform GET API callouts, I’m encountering issues with POST callouts for actions such as creating files or folders. These attempts result in a 403-error status code. Could someone please suggest a solution for accessing Box APIs with a free account? Do I need to purchase a plan or are there any prerequisites or configurations that I might be missing?

I need develop help to move 850 files from a source path ID to a new folder that I have identified. I do not have the developer skills to do myself. Let me know if you can help! Happy to pay for this assistance.

Hello everyone, I’ve been encountering an intermittent issue when trying to use the Box API to preview Excel Online files. Sometimes the files load successfully, but at other times, I receive an error stating that the Excel Online Previewer encountered an error and suggests refreshing the page. Here’s a snippet of the code I’m using: var preview = new Box.Preview(); preview.enableViewers('Office'); preview.show(fileId, accessToken, { container: "#preview-container", showDownload: true, }); The access token is obtained on the server side using JWT authentication. I am using the following URL version of JS via CDN: https://cdn01.boxcdn.net/platform/preview/2.93.0/en-US/preview.js Error Words:

I am using trial version of Enterprise Box and I have created Box Custom application (authorized by Box admin). Then I generated a private key PK for that Box application and I use this PK to connect to Box App from AWS Kendra. I use Kendra Developer Edition in this test. This method used to work, however today I received the below connection error after providing new PK to Kendra. PK is passed to Kendra using Secrets Manager. Error connecting to customer repository: Error parsing PKCS private key for Box Developer Edition. I made sure the PK is copied properly to Kendra. I also tested connectivity using the same PK and Box SDK and I can connect successfully to Box App programmatically using Python, however the connection from AWS Console fails. What can cause this error? This is private key format generated from BOX Application. It contains “\n” character as text. I normally copy “privateKey” into secret in Secrets Manager Kendra

var sdkConfig = require(‘…/…/config/0_l3tozglf_config.json’); var sdk = BoxSDK.getPreconfiguredInstance(sdkConfig); // var client = sdk.getAppAuthClient('enterprise'); var client = sdk.getAppAuthClient('user', '32656874023'); const parentFolderID = '0'; const folderName = 'New Folder'; let create_folder = await client.folders.create(parentFolderID, folderName)

We are planning shared folders (app folders) for about 50 applications. The folder structure could be as simple as AppA/FolderX and AppB/FolderX. Users can be authorized for several apps. Let’s say we want to authorize a user to edit files in each FolderX. We can share both folders and users see “FolderX” twice in their box. I guess via API it would be possible, to address both folders individually, but we want to make the apps available via box web interface, too. What we really want is to show users the full AppA and AppB folder structure in the web interface without any files that are stored in other folders than FolderX. What we can do is to additionally authorize users to view AppA and AppB. The full directory structure is then visible in the user interface so he users can see if the displayed FolderX belong to AppA and AppB. But users will also be allowed to view files outside FolderX. If we could share AppA with the privilege to “only view folders”, then