Ruby

Box.com Download Text File to Memory

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

require 'chilkat'

success = false

# 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(true)

# 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 != true)
    print http.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

print "Downloaded:" + "\n";
print sb.getAsString() + "\n";