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Hello everyone,
I'm making my very first Box SDK NodeJS app which should download a public non-passwrod-protected file given the public share URL. No login should be requested.
I have created the app inside the developer section and generated the proper tokens.

On the github documentation I've found this method that should be used to download a file.
https://rawgit.com/box/box-node-sdk/master/docs/jsdoc/Files.html#getReadStream
The first parameter is the `fileId` but I don't find written anywhere what this id is and where to find it if what I have is just a share link.

I've tried this code

 

var fs = require('fs'), 

    BoxSDK = require('box-node-sdk'), 

        sdk = new BoxSDK({ 

        clientID: '...', 

        clientSecret: '...' 

    }), 

    client = sdk.getAnonymousClient(),

    file_id = process.argvg2].replace(/\S*\/(\S+)$/,"$1");

    

    client.files.getReadStream(file_id, null, function(error, stream) 

    { 

        if (error) { 

            throw error; 

        }

        // write the file to disk 

        var output = fs.createWriteStream('./output/'+file_id+".zip"); //I know for sure there will only be zip files 

stream.pipe(output); 

    });

 

But running it with this command

nodejs index.js https://adrime.box.com/s/s5w7lzm4xfifmxrod9r7eeniv9nhtenk

I get this error:

Error: Unexpected API Response s404 Not Found] (not_found: "Not Found") 

at Object.module.exports.buildResponseError (/home/andrea/dev/node/box_api/node_modules/box-node-sdk/lib/util/errors.js:57:23) 

at Object.module.exports.buildUnexpectedResponseError (/home/andrea/dev/node/box_api/node_modules/box-node-sdk/lib/util/errors.js:94:15) 

at /home/andrea/dev/node/box_api/node_modules/box-node-sdk/lib/managers/files.js:148:20 

at BoxClient._handleResponse (/home/andrea/dev/node/box_api/node_modules/box-node-sdk/lib/box-client.js:291:2) 

at handleResponseCallback (/home/andrea/dev/node/box_api/node_modules/box-node-sdk/lib/box-client.js:233:9) 

at /home/andrea/dev/node/box_api/node_modules/box-node-sdk/lib/api-request.js:285:3 

at nextTickCallbackWith0Args (node.js:436:9) 

at process._tickCallback (node.js:365:13)

Of course I get that the last part of the shared link is not the id.
Can you please help me in programmatically downloading a public shared file?

Thank you in advance!


For the moment I've used this solution:

var fs         = require("fs"),

    request    = require("request");



function downloadFile(source, target, callback)

{

    var wr = fs.createWriteStream(target);

    

    wr.on("error", function (err) {

        callback(err);

    });

    

    wr.on("close", function (ex) {

        callback();

    });



    request

        .get(source)

        .on("error",function(err){

            callback(err);

        })

        .on('response', function(response) 

        {

            if((""+response.statusCode).charAt(0) != "2")

                callback({

                        msg: "File not found: "+response.request.href, 

                        path: response.request.href,

                        toString: function(){

                            return this.msg;

                        }

                     });

        })

        .on("end", function (ex) {

            console.log("request ended");

        })

    .pipe(wr)

}



function onDownloadComplete(err)

{

    if(err)

        throw err

    

    console.log("DOWNLOAD COMPLETE");

}



function init()

{

    var static_url = process.argv[2].replace(/\/s\//,"/shared/static/") + ".zip";

    

    downloadFile(static_url, "./output/file.zip", onDownloadComplete);

}



init();

Hope this will help others.


Trying to do what you're doing.  This link shows how to get the file id.

https://github.com/box/box-node-sdk/blob/master/docs/shared-items.md

 

once i get the file id, I still get "not found" when trying to get the file tho.

 

HTH


Just got it to work, but not with the anonymous client.  switched that line to using a developer key and it worked.  Something with anonymousclient.

 



  //var client = sdk.getAnonymousClient();


  var client = sdk.getBasicClient('');


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