fetch the contents of root folder

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Sahil_Monga

• January 25, 2017 05:07

Hi Folks,

 

I am very new to Box.com and APIs, need your help here:

 

I tried to fetch the contents of root folder for my Box account by pasting the below url in browser and I am unable to get the results as  there is just a blank page. could some one please help me out here:

https://api.box.com/2.0/folders/0 \-H "Authorization: Bearer myDeveloperToken"

 

Do I need to consume this URL in an application like C# console or HTML application to make it work.

 

Thanks in advance!

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  kendomen

  • January 25, 2017 05:27

  You can use postman and here's a nice blog by rory on it:

  https://blog.box.com/blog/using-postman-to-get-started-with-the-content-api-and-view-api-2/

   

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  kendomen

  • January 25, 2017 07:12

  here's an example...

   

  

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  RoryP

  • January 25, 2017 08:14

  Full set of collections an be retreived here! 

   

  https://docs.box.com/docs/box-postman-collection

   

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  Sahil_Monga

  • January 25, 2017 08:54

  Thanks a lot Kendomen! It solved my problem.

   

  Could you also answer this query:

  1. I need to access this information using Javascript, so would I have to refer the two js files that were imported to Postman also before making a Get Request?

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  kendomen

  • January 25, 2017 09:02

  i've been using the box-node-js sdk to make calls in javascript.  Will that work for you?

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  Sahil_Monga

  • January 27, 2017 03:44

  Thanks Kendomen, it may work, can you share that.

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  kendomen

  • January 27, 2017 07:24

  BoxSDK = require('box-node-sdk');
  
  fs = require('fs');
  path = require('path');
  
  var PRIVATE_KEY_PATH = '';
  
  var sdk = new BoxSDK({
      clientID: 'xxxxxx',
      clientSecret: 'xxxxx',
      appAuth: {
          keyID: 'xxxxx',
          privateKey: fs.readFileSync(path.resolve(PRIVATE_KEY_PATH)),
          passphrase: 'xxxxx'
      }
  });
  
  // Get the enterprise client, used to create and manage app user accounts
  var adminAPIClient = sdk.getAppAuthClient('enterprise', 'xxxxxx');
  
  adminAPIClient.users.get(adminAPIClient.CURRENT_USER_ID, null, function(err, currentUser) {
      if(err) throw err;
      console.log('Hello, ' + currentUser.name + '!');
  });
  
  // example:  filter user by name - aken2
  var requestParam = {
      qs: {
          filter_term: 'aken2'
      }
  };
  
  adminAPIClient.get('/users', requestParam,  adminAPIClient.defaultResponseHandler(function(err, data) {
  
      data.entries.forEach(function(user) {
         console.log(user.name);
  
         var userClient = sdk.getAppAuthClient('user', user.id);
         
         // get root folder items
          userClient.folders.getItems('0', null, function(err, data) {
             console.log(data);
          });
  
      });
  }));

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  jiporter

  • February 22, 2017 10:22

  My box folders defaulted to my user directory. Can I safely move them to the root of my hard drive or must they live in the user directory to function?  Running OS X (latest version). tx

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