Box Developer Newsletter: June 2017
|
|
Introducing API Recipes for Box Admins
|
|
Many Box Admins use the Box API to automate, extend, and customize their instance of Box. Box also offers an open development platform for building custom applications. To help you learn how you can use the Box API as a Box Admin, we've created a series of useful recipes, such as programmatically provisioning user accounts, that you can use to get even more out of Box. We plan to expand this collection over time.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Got your own recipe, an idea for a recipe, or want to create one yourself? Feel free to let us know by posting in the Box Developer Forum. We'd love to showcase your great work and help however we can. Developers who submit an API Recipe that will publish will get a free Box Developers t-shirt!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Introducing the Recent Items API
|
|
The Recent Items API allows you to retrieve a list of a user’s recently accessed files. The Recent Items object tracks any items that a user has accessed in the last 90 days or the last 1,000 items accessed, which can be retrieved with a simple GET request.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Introducing the Chunked Uploads API
|
|
The Chunked Upload API provides a fast and reliable way to upload large files to Box by chunking them into a sequence of parts, which can be uploaded in parallel. Moreover, if any part of the file fails to upload, you’ll only need to retry upload for that single part, as opposed to the entire file.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Box UI Kit is Now Available in Beta
|
|
The Box UI Kit is a set of Javascript libraries that let you bring parts of the Box web app in your own custom apps and customize them to fit your brand. With the Box UI Kit, you can tap into year's of iterative design, testing, and development - all without having to code from scratch. All four components of the Box UI Kit are now available in beta for you to test out.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
July Virtual API Office Hours
|
|
Got questions about the Box API? Join us for an upcoming API office hours sessions on July 10th or July 24th at 1:00pm PST.
Whether you are running into an issue with our API or you want to know best practices for implementing a specific use case, you can ask us anything related to the Box API!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pre-register for Box Developer Training
|
|
This fall, we'll be launching a new training program for developers to learn the Box Platform and how to use our APIs to build applications and integrations. Sign up today to be notified when we launch.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Build Apps with Box Platform and AWS Services
|
|
Box Platform works seamlessly with popular AWS products, like AWS Cognito for creating and managing user accounts for your apps, AWS Rekognition for adding image recognition to your apps, or AWS Lambda for creating serverless functions, triggered off activity in Box using webhooks.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Check Out the Box Developer Forum
|
|
Got a question about the Box API? Thousands of developers use the Box Developer Forum to find common solutions and ask questions about the Box API. You can find other Box Developers who can help you or receive help from the Box Developer Relations Team.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
New to the Box API? Box API Navigator allows you to interact with Box Platform's content management services and see corresponding API requests and responses in real-time. You can use API Navigator to learn how Box Platform services like metadata, search, watermarking, preview, and more would work in an application you're building.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
