(Perl) Box.com Download Text File to Memory

Retrieves the actual data of a text file into a memory (not to a local file).

Chilkat Perl Downloads Perl Module for Windows, MacOS, Linux, Alpine Linux

use chilkat();

# This requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
# See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

$http = chilkat::CkHttp->new();

# Provide a previously obtained OAuth2 access token.
# See Get Box OAuth2 Access Token.
$http->put_AuthToken("BOX_ACCESS_TOKEN");

$http->put_FollowRedirects(1);

# The file is specified by the file ID.
# In this case, we're downloading a file with FILE_ID = 371828468442
# The general form of the URL for downloading is: https://api.box.com/2.0/files/FILE_ID/content
$sb = chilkat::CkStringBuilder->new();
$success = $http->DownloadSb("https://api.box.com/2.0/files/371828468442/content","utf-8",$sb);
if ($success != 1) {
    print $http->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

print "Downloaded:" . "\r\n";
print $sb->getAsString() . "\r\n";