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Box Recent Items API

Recent items represent items suchas files or folders thatthe user accessed recently.

Box Recent Items API is one of 81 APIs that Box publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Recent Items. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

This API exposes 1 operation across 1 path, and defines 24 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.box.com/2.0.

1 operations 1 paths 24 schemas 1 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
1.0
Base URL
https://account.box.com/api/oauth2
Authentication
OAuth 2.0
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Box Recent Items API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. It supports OAuth 2.0 (OAuth2Security) using the authorizationCode flow, exposing 9 scopes.

Paths & Operations 1

Across 1 path, the API surfaces 1 operation — 1 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Recent Items 1

Recent items represent items such as files or folders that the user accessed recently.

GET
/recent_items
Box List recently accessed items
get_recent_items 3 params → 200default

Schemas 24

The contract defines 24 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are ClientError (7 properties), ClientError_2 (7 properties), RecentItem (5 properties), Metadata--Base (4 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

Folder
object
A standard representation of a folder, as returned from any folder API endpoints by default
ClientError
object
A generic error
7 properties
FileVersion--Mini
object
A mini representation of a file version, used when nested within another resource.
FileVersion--Base
object
The bare basic representation of a file version, the minimal amount of fields returned when using the fields query parameter.
2 properties 2 required
User--Base
object
A mini representation of a user, used when nested within another resource.
2 properties 2 required
User--Mini
object
A mini representation of a user, as can be returned when nested within other resources.
Items
object
A list of files, folders, and web links in their mini representation.
File
object
A standard representation of a file, as returned from any file API endpoints by default
File--Mini
objectnull
A mini representation of a file, used when nested under another resource.
Metadata--Base
object
The base representation of a metadata instance.
4 properties
FileOrFolderScope
object
A relation between a resource (file or folder) and the scopes for which the resource can be accessed
2 properties
RecentItem
object
A recent item accessed by a user.
5 properties
File--Full
object
A full representation of a file, as can be returned from any file API endpoints by default
Folder--Mini
object
A mini representation of a file version, used when nested under another resource.
WebLink--Mini
object
Web links are objects that point to URLs. These objects are also known as bookmarks within the Box web application. Web link objects are treated similarly to f…
RecentItems
object
A list of recent items.
Metadata
object
An instance of a metadata template, which has been applied to a file or folder.
Folder--Full
object
A full representation of a folder, as can be returned from any folder API endpoints by default
Folder--Base
object
The bare basic representation of a folder, the minimal amount of fields returned when using the fields query parameter.
3 properties 2 required
WebLink--Base
object
Web links are objects that point to URLs. These objects are also known as bookmarks within the Box web application. Web link objects are treated similarly to f…
3 properties 2 required
WebLink
object
Web links are objects that point to URLs. These objects are also known as bookmarks within the Box web application. Web link objects are treated similarly to f…
File--Base
objectnull
The bare basic representation of a file, the minimal amount of fields returned when using the fields query parameter.
3 properties 2 required
ClientError_2
object
A generic error
7 properties
RecentItems_2
object
A list of recent items.

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

box-recent-items-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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