Hello to you all

I am quite new to Box (coming from pCloud, with reliability issues)

I have an issues when creating folder shared links with an API call.


I do receive a folder shared_link.url, but no shared_link.download_url


(I have the link that displays the content of the shared folder, I look for the link that would download the archive of the shared folder)


In the JSON returned by the BOX API, at the shared_link.download_url variable, I am receiving a ‘null’ value. In the API documentation, an URL is received.

If you have an idea about this, would you be so kind as to share it with me ?

Kind regards,

Pierre

I place the following call


(PUT) https://api.box.com/2.0/folders/XXXXXXX?fields=shared_link

Body:

{


  "shared_link": {


    "access": "open",


    "password": null,


    "unshared_at": "2024-06-05T08:03:38",


    "permissions": {


      "can_download": true,


      "can_edit": false


    }


  }


}

The answer I receive:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK


Transfer-Encoding: chunked


x-envoy-upstream-service-time: 308


box-request-id: XXXXXXX


strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000


Alt-Svc: h3=":443"; ma=2592000,h3-29=":443"; ma=2592000


Connection: close


Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store


Content-Type: application/json


Date: Mon, 06 May 2024 06:03:39 GMT


ETag: "0"


Via: 1.1 google

{


  "type": "folder",


  "id": "262171966836",


  "etag": "0",


  "shared_link": {


    "url": "https://XXXXXXXXX.XXXXXXX.",


    "download_url": null,


    "vanity_url": null,


    "vanity_name": null,


    "effective_access": "open",


    "effective_permission": "can_download",


    "is_password_enabled": false,


    "unshared_at": "2024-06-05T08:03:38-07:00",


    "download_count": 0,


    "preview_count": 0,


    "access": "open",


    "permissions": {


      "can_preview": true,


      "can_download": true,


      "can_edit": false


    }


  }


}