(Perl) Box.com Download Binary File to Memory

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

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

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 = 283371752129.
#  The general form of the URL for downloading is: https://api.box.com/2.0/files/FILE_ID/content
$bd = chilkat::CkBinData->new();
$success = $http->DownloadBd("https://api.box.com/2.0/files/283371752129/content",$bd);
if ($success != 1) {
    print $http->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

print "Downloaded tigers.jpeg into an object holding the binary data." . "\r\n";

print "Number of bytes: " . $bd->get_NumBytes() . "\r\n";