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Questions about the API provided by Box, Inc. for their online storage service.

The Box API lets you create applications and web sites that integrate with Box. By leveraging Box's RESTful API, you can add simple, yet secure file management, sharing, and collaboration to your app.

Please consult http://developers.box.com for full API documentation.

Box, Inc. was formerly known as Box.net.

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api for direct login

I am developing a java app for admin users in an organization. The admin user has access to the organization main box folder. I want my application to sign in the admin directly (without having to type his username and password in your box login…
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Box Rest API: Getting user info after login

I know the steps to authenticate user and getting the user info after performing this call: GET https://www.box.com/api/1.0/rest?action=get_auth_token&api_key={your api key}&ticket={your ticket} But what I'm really looking for is to get user info…
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API Responding with 500 errors after significant load

I work at a cload integrations provider that uses Box's API to move data in and out of Box accounts for our clients. We will easily hit the API tens or hundreds of thousands of times in a day. Yesterday night I noticed a significant number of our…
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How to assign value to unshared_at for a file using BOX API v2.0

I am trying to create a 'shared link' for a file uploaded. Using BOX API, I am sending a request with body as: {"shared_link": {"access": "open","unshared_at":1347215400,"permissions": {"download": true, "preview": false }} } However, it does not…
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Seeing locked files as read only in Box API

I am using Box and Box Sync in Windows 7, and have a client who wants to be able to lock a file in Box and have Box Sync propagate that to Windows by making the file read-only. I know that there is some property transferred from Box to Windows when…
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Listing Box cloud storage files via WebDAV on Ubuntu?

I've tried to mount Box cloud storage on my Ubuntu via WebDAV and it works. But the only thing is I need to download the files (whole file, all files) on to my computer to view files in the cloud. That is so bandwidth hungry and wasting time. Is it…
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What is the correct version for Box Android sdk

I go http://developers.box.com/onecloud/ to download the Android SDK. I got box-box-android-sdk-5482811 Is this the latest version? Because when I open up the OneCloudAppToAppSample, even the R. variable is not well defined. And I cannot run the…
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Folder/File smart link enable/disable call in Box V2 API

Recently an article on the box dev blog talked about an update in the V2 API functionality. http://developers.blog.box.com/2012/07/13/more-v2-updates/. I am specifically talking about the share link for file/folders. The article says the API can be…
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V2 documentation errors?

I am working on an application that will be using the V2 Box API and have noticed that for some calls the response I get from the API differs from the documentation. How do you want me to handle what I find? Do you want me to post these points as…
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Any way to get details on a collaborator's identity from the Box API?

The closest thing I can get are events that show a "COLLAB_ADD_COLLABORATOR" type of event - however, this does not include the collaborator's identity. Note that I want this information potentially before this user does anything to a file or…
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Showing Unauthorized in box api response

I am using the box api as mentioned in the documentation. I get the ticket from api_key and then auth_token from api_key and ticket. But when i use this auth_token for getting information like folder list or file contents etc. I get unauthorized…
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Re-uploading an existing file to Box through the API returning a 500 error

I'm building tests around an api wrapper in PHP, and I'm not getting the expected response when I try to re-upload an existing file based on the API documentation. According to the docs: If the name of the file being uploaded already exists in the…
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400 error returned when using Box2.0 Delete method

I am using Box 2.0 API to delete a file. Using Postman, i enter the following: https://api.box.com/2.0/files/2605672883 specifying the DELETE action. I've set the authorization header appropriately. When I submit the request, I get the following…
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Is it possible to select locale in box-api authentication?

Can I explicit select a language when redirecting a user to the authentication page via API?
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Box.net and WebDAV - Returned format seems wrong

I'm trying to grab a list of files/folders from Box.net using WebDAV (https://box.com/dav). However, even though I'm constructing (what I think is) a valid WebDAV PROPFIND request. The data is coming back from Box in HTML format. I was expecting…
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