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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). 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

# 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 = 371828468442
# The general form of the URL for downloading is: https://api.box.com/2.0/files/FILE_ID/content
$sb = New-Object Chilkat.StringBuilder
$success = $http.DownloadSb("https://api.box.com/2.0/files/371828468442/content","utf-8",$sb)
if ($success -ne $true) {
    $($http.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$("Downloaded:")
$($sb.GetAsString())