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Download shared folder

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I have checked that the [SDK documentation][sdk-docs] doesn’t solve my issue.
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Description of the Issue

I got errr for the command below

box folders:download 144 # ID of a folder that is shared to me.
Unexpected API Response [404 Not Found | asdasdhasdahdasdfasdhahdasd] not_found - Not Found

Expected Behavior

Be able to download the folder to my local machine. Alternatively, I should be able to use curl or wget to download the folder with the shared link.

Versions Used

Box CLI: @box/cli/2.9.0 linux-x64 node-v16.6.1 Operating System: Ubuntu 18.04

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Created 2 years ago
Comments:9 (4 by maintainers)

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mwwodacommented, Nov 24, 2021

If you want to download the contents of a folder using a shared link, you must enumerate the files one-by-one and download them separately. It’s not possible to download the entire folder this way.

You can get the content of this folder by calling the /folders/{folderId}/items endpoint like this

curl -i -X GET "https://api.box.com/2.0/folders/150744142852/items" \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer <Token>" \
    -H "BoxApi: shared_link=https://app.box.com/s/9alg80kaqluqvvrjdgxwkvq9v4oxzyw1"

This will return ids of the files inside this folder. You can then call download on each of them. So the example curl for a single file would look like this

curl -i -X GET "https://app.box.com/files/888201304524/content " \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer <TOKEN>" \
     -H "BoxApi: shared_link=https://app.box.com/s/9alg80kaqluqvvrjdgxwkvq9v4oxzyw1" \
     -L -o downloadedFile

I don’t think that downloading zip with a share link is possible at the moment. 401 error you posted indicates problem with your token.

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stale[bot]commented, Aug 9, 2022

This issue has been automatically closed due to maximum period of being stale. Thank you for your contribution to Box CLI and feel free to open another PR/issue at any time.