Search within a folder using tags - API

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rogerwith

• March 08, 2018 08:07

Hi,

 

I am trying to retrieve files with specific tags only, but I have not find the solution yet.

 

I have this: 

curl https://api.box.com/2.0/folders/4***phone number removed for privacy***/items?fields=content_type,name,tags,id -H "Authorization: Bearer MY KEY"

 

but it retrieves all items inside the folder, I want to use a filter to limit search by tags.

 

any ideas?

 

Regards,

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  mwiller

  • March 09, 2018 11:12

   You should be able to use the Search API to do this — something like the following should do what you want (just replace the ALL_CAPS parts with your parameters):

   

  curl -H "Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN" https://api.box.com/2.0/search?query=TAG_NAME&content_types=tags&ancestor_folder_ids=FOLDER_ID

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  rogerwith

  • March 09, 2018 11:34

   Thank you,

   

  Tried the code and it worked until certain point, which it will not recognize "ancestor_folder_ids". 

  but thank you again you gave me a way out!

   

  

   

   

   

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  phil-northcott

  • May 24, 2018 10:53

  This didn't work for us.  Is there some documentation on exactly how these strings are supposed to be formed?   
  
  

  Ideally we're looking for a regex or sql type search into tag contents (or metadata contents) 

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  azndoodle

  • January 10, 2020 07:55

  Is there confirmation that it's work again?

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