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R Landry
R Landry

Reputation: 11

Box API 2.0: Unable to Download

I'm testing out the new API, but having no luck downloading a test image file. The file exists, is accessible through the web UI, and is retrievable using the v1.0 API.

I'm able to access the metadata ("https://api.box.com/2.0/files/{fileid}") using both commandline curl and pycurl. However, calls to "https://api.box.com/2.0/files/{fileid}/data" bring back nothing. An earlier post (5/1) received the answer that the download feature had a bug and that "https://www.box.com" should be used as the base URL in the interim. That, however, just provokes a 404.

Please advise.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1360

Answers (2)

Peter
Peter

Reputation: 2599

You should be able to download via http://api.box.com/2.0/files/<fildID>/content ... Looks like we have a bug somewhere in the backend. Hope to have it fixed soon.

Update 11/13/2012 -- This got fixed at least a month ago. Just updated the URL to our newer format

Upvotes: 2

Icallitvera
Icallitvera

Reputation: 176

For me it works when its /content instead of /data... python code below

import requests
    fileid = str(get_file_id(filenumber))
    url = https://api.box.com/2.0/files/1790744170/content
    r = requests.get(url=url, headers=<HEADERS>, proxies=<PROXIES>)
    infoprint("Downloading...")
    filerecieved = r.content
    filename = uni_get_id(fileid, "name", "file")
    f = open(filename, 'w+')
    infoprint("Writing...")
    f.write(filerecieved)
    f.close()

Upvotes: 0

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