Issue with zip API endpoints

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Jacob S

• December 06, 2021 14:04

Hello. I am attempting to zip a Box folder and download that zip to a remote server using the zip API endpoints. When I use the "Create Zip Download" call, I successfully get a download_url. Unfortunately, when I try using the "Download zip archive" call, it runs as though something should happen, but I get nothing. When I use the "Get zip download status" call, it indicates that there are zero files/folders to download.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Jacob

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  Alex Novotny

  • December 07, 2021 15:20

  Hello, 

  Are you using one of our SDKs? If possible, it would help if I could see some of the code you are running. 

  Thanks, 

  Alex, Box Developer Advocate

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  Jacob S

  • December 08, 2021 15:47
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  Hi Alex,

  I'm not using an SDK - at this point I'm just running calls via curl, as described in the API docs.

  Request access token:

  curl -i -X POST "https://api.box.com/oauth2/token" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" \
  -d "client_id=<client_id>" \
  -d "client_secret=<client_secret>" \
  -d "grant_type=client_credentials" \
  -d "box_subject_type=enterprise" \
  -d "box_subject_id=<box_subject_id>"

  Create zip download:

  curl -i -X POST "https://api.box.com/2.0/zip_downloads" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <access_token>" \
  -d '{
  "download_file_name": "<file_name>",
  "items": [
  {
  "type": "folder",
  "id": "<folder_id>"
  }
  ]
  }
  '

  Download zip archive:

  curl -i -X GET "https://dl.boxcloud.com/2.0/zip_downloads/<download_url>"

  ^This is the point where I'm running into the first issue. When I run this it gives me a 200 response but nothing seemingly downloads.

  Then I look at the zip download status:

  curl -i -X GET "https://api.box.com/2.0/zip_downloads/<download_url>" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <access_token>"

  The response indicates zero total files/folders. I don't know how super useful this is with me scrubbing identifiers, but this is the workflow I used.

  Thanks,

  Jacob

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