VBScript

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). VBScript

Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)

success = 0

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

set http = CreateObject("Chilkat.Http")

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

http.FollowRedirects = 1

' 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
set sb = CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
success = http.DownloadSb("https://api.box.com/2.0/files/371828468442/content","utf-8",sb)
If (success <> 1) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(http.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

outFile.WriteLine("Downloaded:")
outFile.WriteLine(sb.GetAsString())

outFile.Close