The Box API

The Box offers cloud file storage, file collaboration and workflow automation services. It provides a complete content management cycle, allowing you to create and edit files (alone or collaboratively), share them with other users, certify with an electronic signature, organize by category, and save to cloud or local storage.

The Box users can store and process different types of files, including text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, images, audio-video files, etc. The service provides a number of tools to protect data from loss and unauthorized access, allows you to share files with a limited or unlimited circle of people using links. It also allows you to leave comments on files and protect access to them with a password.

Among other features of The Box service, versioning of files is presented with a history of their changes. You can work with files uploaded to the storage both online and offline. Another tool of the platform is the administrator console, which allows you to add users, issue access rights, set passwords, etc. The service has a built-in Box Relay module, with which you can quickly automate certain workflows.

An important feature of the service is the Box Platform module ( https://www.box.com/platform ), which includes API documentation and a set of tools for developers. Using them, they can embed the functionality of The Box into a third-party site, program or mobile application. Integration with external systems through the Box API allows you to synchronize their content, metadata and other parameters with the cloud. In addition, you can run scripts through it to automate the process of transferring data to the cloud, managing folders and coordinating user collaboration.

Developers can link The Box functionality to external software using the provided SDK (Software Development Kit), which requires some programming skills. If you do not want to complicate your life with self-integration, you can use a ready-made bundle of systems available in the no-code web interface of the ApiX-Drive application connector service.