I'm doing a lot of restructuring of my organization's data, and it would be very helpful to directly get the ID of a file or folder through Box Drive (or, essentially what amounts to Finder on Mac).

I know that I can currently do this through a manual multi-step process by right-clicking the file, selecting "View in Box", and copying the trailing digits from the URL that displays. But all these steps start becoming tedious after a while, and it also makes it tough to build in automations on my desktop.

I know there is a Box Drive menu item called "Copy Shared Link", but that's not what I'm looking for, as the link can be deactivated and is not a permanent reflection of the file or folder itself.

What I'd like to do is have a function on my computer whereby the input is the path to the file (or folder) on Box Drive, and the output is its Box file/folder ID. I can then use that ID in the Box API to run larger scale automated tasks. The function can be either called upon in Terminal, or if I get that far, I can also make it into an Automator Quick Action and assign a keyboard shortcut to, say, copy the file ID to the clipboard.

I've looked everywhere for solutions to this but seem to be coming up empty. Is there a native function that I'm missing, or is there an easy way to script this that I'm missing?