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Paul Allen
Paul Allen

Reputation: 369

How can I know or construct the permanent url to a given file

We have an internal application that owns the folders for a given topic; topic subscribers are added as collaborators via the api. When a message to the topic contains an attachment, we upload it to the folder, where is can be accessed by the topic subscribers via a link we show in the rendered message.

The problem we have is partially an organizational issue:

Our idea was to get the file url (eg. https://acme.app.box.com/files/0/f/689840703/1/f_17027007623 ) and display that link instead of a shared collaboration. It's not obvious from the documentation how to do so ...

Upvotes: 0

Views: 148

Answers (1)

John Hoerr
John Hoerr

Reputation: 8035

Assuming the URL format doesn't change, you can template it as:

https://acme.app.box.com/files/0/f/$FolderId/1/f_$FileId

$FolderId is already known to you because you're programmatically uploading files to that folder.

$FileId can be derived from the File object that's returned to you as a result of the upload.

Upvotes: 1

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