BoxSDK (Python) - Search for files of certain extension

Hi ,

With the way the search endpoint works, you won't be able to set wildcard search params (or a null value) within the query itself. This article gives some good insights into how it functions, specifically under the "Wildcard searches" section.

So, there are a few options that might work. If you want to search for common file names / file name parts (where there is a common naming convention), you can do something like: 

search_term = 't'
type = 'file'

content = client.search().query(search_term, result_type=type, file_extensions=['pdf', 'txt'])

The other option would be to use the Get Folder Items endpoint. This will return all items within a given folder, which you can then loop through and filter for any without a matching extension.

I know it's not an ideal scenario, but hopefully one of those should get you what you need.

Thanks,

Jon

Apologies if this is the wrong thread for this question, but it was the closest one I could find for the issue of searching for a particular file extension. My university recently migrated everything to Box, so I can't use the Windows file explorer search. I need to search all my folders for my matlab function and script files (*.m). How do I do that in Box drive? Searching "*.m" appears to literally return everything with an "m" in it, which is pretty much everything among my thousands and thousands of files.