SDKs and Tools

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, 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 exchange for access token; check after redirect. var session = await sdk.Auth.AuthenticateAsync("[CODE]"); var client = new BoxClient(config, session)

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!

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 already created two directories (one for production and one for staging) and uploaded the files from the

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 = { query : "DocumentId ILIKE :arg1 OR bookAndPageNumber ILIKE :arg2", query_param

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

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 400 error com.box.sdk.BoxAPIResponseException: The API returned an erro

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: Excel Online failed to load. There was an error previewing your file with the Excel Online Previewer. Please refresh the page to try again. The error resolves temporarily when I log out and then log back into Box, but it reappears if I log out again. This leads me to wonder if the issue m

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)

Hello, I am currently building an integration that downloads & uploads files from Box using the Box Python SDK. I am having issues using the upload_stream function (https://github.com/box/box-python-sdk/blob/main/docs/usage/files.md#upload-a-file) with an IOBase stream. I am doing the below (taken from the docs): new_file = parent_folder.upload_stream(object_bytes, file_name) The error I get it is: TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for -: 'NoneType' and 'int' File "upload_to_box", line 174, in upload_small_file new_file = parent_folder.upload_stream(object_bytes, file_name) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/boxsdk/util/api_call_decorator.py", line 63, in call return method(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/boxsdk/object/folder.py", line 322, in upload_stream file_response = self._session.post( File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/boxsdk/session/session.py", line 100, in post return self.request('POST', ur

Are there any Drupal (10.x+) modules for uploading files from Drupal forms to BoxAPI? I see a few of Drupal 7 modules, but nothing solid and nothing upgrade to the latest Drupal. I am looking for a form (or webform) element. I’ve used the API before to upload and download. But I’d prefer to not have to write this. And I’m very surprised not to see an existing module or suite of modules that integrate well.

I have abandoned using Box with PHP because the support is abysmal. Since this is an internal only application anyways, I’m using JavaScript. I can successfully download a file by searching for it using the /search?query=filename.ext&type=file endpoint. In the response, there are several entries, but I can find the specific file I’m looking for by using JavaScript’s find method checking the entry’s name and parent.id. When I try to upload a file using the /files/content endpoint, I am getting a 404 from the response using this function: async uploadFile(filename, rawFiles) { if (!this.#accessToken) { const errorMessage = 'Access Token is not set. Please authenticate first.' console.error(errorMessage); throw new Error(error); } const uploadUrl = 'https://api.box.com/2.0/files/content'; const parentFolderId = '-redacted-'; if (rawFiles?.length === 0) { const errorMessage = 'Please select a file.' console.error(errorMessage); throw new Error(error); } const file

Goal: Iterate through folder and get list of files. Upload files to box folder, and if successful, remove the file. Service running as a scheduled task in Windows Server 2022 to run Powershell script nightly. I cannot get a response from box files:upload when its successful. Any Suggestions?

Hi, We are using jenkins tool to upload files on box folder but due to the below mentioned error box uploads are failing: Please check the ‘exp’ claim. The ‘exp’ value exceeds the maximum value of 60 seconds beyond the issue time Please suggest. Shailendra Jetpuria

I’m excited about box_sdk_gen! I’m trying this , but “ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘box_sdk_gen.auth’” occured. of cource I’ve done pip install box_sdk_gen. where’s box_sdk_gen.auth?

I generated a script to be able to upload backup files from a database to my BOX account developed with python. When I run the script it works correctly but when I go to the box I don’t see the uploaded files. The script is configured to upload the files to folder id 0. Running the script returns it tells me that the files already exist. Do you have any idea what could be happening?

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

Background: We have a github cicd on a self-runner host from AWS. In this workflow we build our daily software and upload to Box using below command. This has been working for the past 6 month. Issue: Last couple of months, I am getting frequent errors that “item already exists”. (1) The problem is that files get uploaded correctly and when I check the box, I do see all the files. However, not sure why I am getting these errors. (2) It is not possible to have “same name” since each build has a unique github commit ID attached to our release target name. i.e, There are 3 different unique IDs concatenated together. Here is an example “0514.2_A_0.0.48_5b57cb4_0308”. Hence it is impossible to have same name. What is going on here? I need support from Box Team. This is not something we can afford to constantly have errors for no apparent reason. Error Error: Unexpected API Response [409 Conflict | 4t6w1ehnkir5p8jc.0786afe948d834788dc1f0ba396b1cc64] item_name_in_use - Item with the same nam

Explicitly requesting the extension attribute from the BoxFile.Info object’s getInfo method provides the expected value. However, if requesting the entire BoxFile.Info object’s getInfo’s set of attributes, not explicitly specifying fields to be returned, the extension attribute value is missing. In addition, the SHA1 attribute, which is another specific BoxFile extension to BoxInfo, exists. I would expect both to be provided, but extension is not. Attempted with Box Java SDK versions 4.7.0 and 4.8.0. For example: BoxFile.Info info = file.getInfo("extension"); System.out.println(info.getExtension()); BoxFile.Info info = file.getInfo("sha1"); System.out.println(info.getSha1()); BoxFile.Info info = file.getInfo(); System.out.println(info.getExtension()); System.out.println(info.getSha1()); Example output: doc bddf8a01e139522c81c59b10df840c4379e24cfb null bddf8a01e139522c81c59b10df840c4379e24cfb The null output is unexpected.