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Marin Botev

Good day,

What does HTTP Error 404 mean when returned when calling "Create zip download" API? That code is not defined in the online manual https://developer.box.com/reference/post-zip-downloads/#request-example

It seems my curl call is successfully authenticated and returns download_url and status_url. The download_url has no content when opening with a browser.

While status_url page 

https://dl.boxcloud.com/2.0/zip_downloads/2QCytrCC27LetjOQ3hlDeIg==zLZ2QfuE27-yqydNHR1B1dn9AiF-eIgPJLd2384i8ZXbN3JSEfB8ZRAXXXX/content

contains error 404:

{"status":404,"type":"error","message":"Resource not found","code":"not_found","context_info":null,"help_url":"http://developers.box.com/docs/#errors","request_id":"b6ivr9c7di2fnn0eev7n7fvbms"}

The curl call contains a single type "file" and respective "id".

It seems to me that I'm missing something important get this working.

I hope you could advise.

Thank you.

Kind regards,

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  • Marin Botev

    Hi,

    apparently, error 404 is related to user authentication.

    Not sure why is error 404 as the user making the ZIP call (using the Bearer DEV_TOKEN) and the user logged in the browser is the same.

    I did check using the Get User API call.

    It would be great if someone shares a working Python example on how to use the ZIP Download API call.

    Kind regards,

     

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  • Marin Botev

    Hi,

    Observed error 404 in the browser is because the ZIP Download URL is "alive" for only a few seconds.
    The download should start immediately after the ZIP download URL is returned.
    Handling of errors is required as the download "curl" fails if the ZIP preparation "curl" takes more than a few seconds.
    Bash script below worked more or less.
    ============================ Bash script to ZIP a folder ===============
    #!/bin/bash
    TOKEN=YOUR_DEV_TOKEN
    DOWNLOAD_FILE=file1.zip
    FOLDER_ID=1022034050

    DOWNLOAD_URL=`curl -i -X POST "https://api.box.com/2.0/zip_downloads" \
         -H "Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}" \
         -d '{
           "download_file_name": "${DOWNLOAD_FILE}",
           "items": [
             {
               "type": "folder",
               "id": "${FOLDER_ID}"
             }
           ]
         }' | grep download | cut -d":" -f2,3 | cut -d"," -f1 | sed 's/"//g' `

    echo "DOWNLOAD_URL -> ${DOWNLOAD_URL}"
    curl -i -X GET ${DOWNLOAD_URL} > ${DOWNLOAD_FILE}
    ==================================

    Kind regards,

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