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Hi,


I’d like to set up a watch folder on my Box account that will automatically download to a specified location on my local storage whenever a new file appears.


I can currently do this manually with the CLI but would like to trigger this with a watch folder.


Is that possible?


Thanks,

Chris

Hi @user199 , welcome to the forum!


Yes it is possible.


You can set up a web-hook for that specific folder and monitor the FILE.UPLOADED event.


When a file is uploaded box will ping the URL specified and from there you can have something (a web server for example) listening that will validate the web-hook and proceed with the download.


This is fairly complex, since it does have many moving parts.


See if this article helps:




We also have guides related to web-hooks:




Let us know if this helps and how you want to proceed.


Cheers

Thanks for the info. Much appreciated. Will read through and see how I go.

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