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Get files contents from search

  • May 22, 2025
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On the box.com site, when a user searches a phrase/word, in the results below the file name shows some file contents that match the search term. Is there a way to replicate this using the box api?

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    Hi , 

     

    There's not an exact way to have relevant matched content returned by the /search API. The closest behavior you could get would be to return the extracted text representation of any search results:

    https://developer.box.com/en/guides/representations/text/

     

    And then deciding how you'd want to display surrounding text, e.g. X letters before and after or using more advanced relevance logic. 

     

    Always feel free to add suggestions to https://pulse.box.com/! It'll help us the most if you can provide context around your use case so we can understand how new features would impact customers.

     

    Thanks,

    Jason

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