How to fetch BOX file metadata information using Box API with python SDK?

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ch_srikanth

• November 05, 2018 02:13

Hi

 

Can anyone please let me know how to fetch BOX file metadata information using Box API with python SDK?

I am using the JWTauth process for authentication.

 

 

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  BB_Jake

  • November 05, 2018 05:05

   

  The documentation has been recently updated and organised on GitHub, please take a read and you should be able to find most things here : https://github.com/box/box-python-sdk/tree/master/docs/usage

   

  metadata = client.file(file_id='11111').metadata(scope='enterprise', template='myMetadata').get()
  print('Got metadata instance {0}'.format(metadata['$id']))

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  ch_srikanth

  • November 05, 2018 15:53

  Thanks for your response 

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  ch_srikanth

  • November 05, 2018 15:57

  I actually want the metadata of the file which are uploaded on current day. I mean I want to read the file which came in today in a folder. 

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  ch_srikanth

  • November 06, 2018 00:58

  Can I fetch the metadata of today's files only ?

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  ch_srikanth

  • November 06, 2018 02:25

  If I execute the below statement, I could see some metadata of the file is getting displayed in json format.

  client.file(file_id='123').get()

   

  I want to save this metadata into a file in the same format of json. How can I do that ?

   

   

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  ch_srikanth

  • November 07, 2018 15:41

  

  This whole json content I want to save it to a file. How can I do that ?

   

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  ch_srikanth

  • November 07, 2018 15:42

  When I execute this command.

  >>> x = client.file(file_id=34***phone number removed for privacy***).get()

  >>>type(x)

  Output:

   It's actually a box object, I need to convert it to a json object, so that I can save it to a file. 

  Can someone help me please.

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  BB_Jake

  • November 09, 2018 09:02

   

  have you tried using the json library?

   

  import json

  x = client.file(file_id).get()

  print(json.dumps(x))

   

  or

  print(json.dumps(x.__dict__))

   

   

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