Get Folder Items api on a public shared folder returns "not_found"

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Box Product Support

• March 04, 2018 09:49

Hi fellow devs,

 

I have a public shared box folder: https://app.box.com/s/yje0erch79v03z4nebsraq4yt2qsplvm

From this I assumed that the folder id is "yje0erch79v03z4nebsraq4yt2qsplvm". (no?)

 

Then, I tried to list this folder using the box api sample like this:

curl "https://api.box.com/2.0/folders/yje0erch79v03z4nebsraq4yt2qsplvm/items?limit=2&offset=0" -H "Authorization: Bearer 3RRYMD6ha4nec1fzKJxs1EousyfkcIQj"

 

But the return is not_found:

{"type":"error","status":404,"code":"not_found","help_url":"http:\/\/developers.box.com\/docs\/#errors","message":"Not Found","request_id":"m91igjfp1ae8i5oh"}

 

Thanks.

 

-- J

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  mwiller

  • March 05, 2018 11:17

   The shared link URL is not the folder ID — it is a randomly generated string used to allow access to the folder.  To clarify, you could remove the shared link from the folder and then generate a new one, which would give you a different shared link URL, but would not change the folder ID.

   

  To access an item via a shared link in the API, you would use the Shared Items endpoint with the BoxApi header.

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