(PowerShell) Box.com Download Binary File to Memory

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

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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-9.5.0-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

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

$http = New-Object Chilkat.Http

# 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)
if ($success -ne $true) {
    $($http.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

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

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