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Box.com Download Binary File to Memory

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

Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

$success = $false

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

$http = New-Object Chilkat.Http
$http.KeepResponseBody = $true

# Provide a previously obtained OAuth2 access token.
# See Get Box OAuth2 Access Token.
$http.AuthToken = "BOX_ACCESS_TOKEN"

$http.FollowRedirects = $true

# 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 = New-Object Chilkat.BinData
$success = $http.DownloadBd("https://api.box.com/2.0/files/283371752129/content",$bd)
$statusCode = $http.LastStatus
if ($success -eq $false) {
    if ($statusCode -eq 0) {
        # Unable to either send the request or get the response.
        $($http.LastErrorText)
    }
    else {
        # We got a response, but the status code was not in the 200s
        $("Response status code: " + $statusCode)
        # Examine the response body.
        $("Response body:")
        $($http.LastResponseBody)
    }

    $("Download failed.")

}
else {
    $("Downloaded tigers.jpeg into an object holding the binary data.")

    $("Number of bytes: " + $bd.NumBytes)
}