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downunder

• September 17, 2021 02:04

I'm looking for a way to retrieve a list of events (related to files/folders) of a specific folder starting from a specific time.
For example, a request "get_folder_changes(12345678, '10 Sep 2021 22:14:23.45)" will give me:
file1: changed by user X on 10 Sep 2021 22:15:02.23
file2: added by user Y on 10 Sep 2021 22:17:23.86
folder1: added by user Z on 10 Sep 2021 23:22:45.78
file1: changed by user Y on 11 Sep 2021 01:22:12.43

The list must be in chronological order. The output can be in json or other parseable formats. Most probably the language will be Python.
Users X, Y and Z are collaborators of folder 12345678.

How I can achieve that?

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  Alex Novotny

  • September 20, 2021 20:01

  Unfortunately, the functionality as you describe does not exist. A workaround could be to use the event stream endpoint. You can't limit it to one folder though, so you would need to have logic in your code to search for a folder id in the event for specific event types. This would be kind of a challenge to create manually, but it can be done. 

  Thanks, 

  Alex, Box Developer Advocate

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