How to get pdf content by using API?

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吉田俊平

June 03, 2022 01:11

Hi all.

I'm trying to get pdf content by using "https://api.box.com/2.0/files/:fileid/content".

But when I excecute this api, it return garbled text like below image.

Is there anyone who have any idea about this problem?

Thanks.

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Peter Christensen

June 08, 2022 08:02
Hi

Please review the reference. https://developer.box.com/reference/get-files-id-content/

The API endpoint https://api.box.com/2.0/files/:fileid/content will return a location header with a URL that you need to download the binary file from. If it is a PDF it should give you a response header 'application/pdf' and you should be able to download the PDF to your file system. What you show looks like the raw text of the pdf so maybe you are just outputting the binary file rather than downloading it?

Rgds

Peter Christensen, Platform Solutions Engineer, Box
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