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Obtaining box links en masse

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Vienna Poiesz

If you have several thousand folders and you want to create a shared link for all of them individually, is there any way to generate that in bulk? The ideal would be an excel with one column with all the folder names and a second column with all the associated shared links. 

 

Thanks for any help here!

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    Kourtney

    Hello Vienna, 

    It is possible to create shared links in bulk via our API. I would recommend doing this with our CLI based on what you've described. Here is documentation for the command you'd want to use: https://github.com/box/boxcli/blob/master/docs/folders.md#box-foldersshare-id. This will allow you to create a .csv file with one column of all the folder IDs you'd like a shared link for and then you can export the results as a .csv so you have each generated shared link. 

    box folders:share ID --bulk-file-path=INSERTPATHHERE --save-to-file-path=INSERTPATHHERE

    Best,

    Kourtney, Box Developer Advocate

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  • Nick Birkby

    Hi Kourtney,

    Is there a way of getting Box links for files in bulk (about 100 files) without using API?  Unfortunaltey, I don't have API skills.

    Thanks in advance.

    Nick

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  • Kristina Soler

    Bumping this inquiry. Can we get box links in bulk without this API?

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