How to download a publicly available file from the command line?

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nholtzma

• April 11, 2018 14:16

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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  ITIOps

  • April 12, 2018 10:40

  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

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  nholtzma

  • April 14, 2018 10:05

  Solved. Once I joined the folder so that it was in my own Box account, the curl command in the API worked fine.

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  czhouap

  • June 17, 2018 06:56

  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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