I am new to Box so I don't know how things work. There is a folder of files that was made publicly available so that I can download them from my browser on my personal computer without even being logged in to Box. How would I download the same files from the command line on Linux? I think I should be able to search for the file ID given the file name, but I can't figure out how. Also, I'm not sure whether I need to authenticate as part of this process.
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How to download a publicly available file from the command line?
You may want to start by checking out Box's API reference (https://developer.box.com/reference).
Then there are command line tools like wget and curl and text based browsers like w3m, lynx, and elink. My personal favorite to access Box, not using a URL, is rclone (rclone.org).
Steve
Solved. Once I joined the folder so that it was in my own Box account, the curl command in the API worked fine.
Hi, Can you give me some more details how you download the publicly files from the command line? I want to download the public file here https://app.box.com/s/u3flbp13zjydegrxjb2uepagp1vb6bj2/folder/4***phone number removed for privacy***, What should I do? Thank you.
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