Can I get a listing of a shared link?

[jfunction]

I want to build something that looks at new content on a /s/ style link.

For example, I can navigate to https://app.box.com/s/abcdefghijklmnop/folder/1234567890 but when I tried boxr::ls('1234567890') I was told that "the folder specified does not exist in your account" which is true, but it is publicly accessible so I hoped there would be a way to access it through the API.

I think I want something like this https://developer.box.com/reference/get-shared-items--folders/ and the same with files, so I can figure out what is new based on the local content.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks for this library.

[jfunction]

For now I managed to make a plan with something like this:

library(tidyverse)
library(tidyjson)
library(httr)
library(boxr)
library(glue)
result <- GET(glue("https://api.box.com/2.0/folders/1234567890/items"),
              add_headers(boxapi='shared_link=https://foo.app.box.com/s/abcdefghijklmnop',
                          Authorization=glue('Bearer {getOption("boxr.token")$credentials$access_token}')))
# Then process files/folders in the response as a tibble by doing:
tbChildren <- content(result, as='text', encoding='UTF-8') %>%
    enter_object(entries) %>%
    gather_array() %>%
    spread_all()

Then I just called this recursively to enumerate all files and compared sha1 against disk to see what got messed up. We don't get a timestamp for comparison so probably couldn't do proper sync with this method but that's not my use case in this instance so I didn't chase that down any more.

I also noticed I didn't have permission to download the shared content via the API /files/1234567890/content endpoint, but I can download them via the web app by browsing to https://app.box.com/s/abcdefghijklmnop/file/1234567890, which seems like an oversight. I managed to download these resources using GET again by mimicking the browser method, though this might be against TOU... I didn't check...

Anyway, just wanted to report back. Maybe this information can improve the library by, for example, including the ability to add_headers(boxapi='shared_link=https://foo.app.box.com/s/abcdefghijklmnop') through the box_ls() method.

[nathancday]

Thanks for the report back. Glad you found a way to work it.

Just so I'm on the same page as you are, your use case needed to expose the Find folder for shared link API? Either with a new boxr function or new argument to box_ls()?

[jfunction]

Sorry for delay, but yes that sums it up. I also needed the Find file for shared link API.

[nathancday]

That sounds like a possible new feature for boxr. Re-opening for visibility and interest to others.