Deprecation notice

Caution

box-python-sdk-gen is deprecated and no longer maintained. Do not use it for new projects.

Use box-python-sdk v10+ instead: pip install "boxsdk>=10". To migrate existing code, see the migration guide.

As of September 17, 2025, Box Next Generation SDKs are no longer supported as separate artifacts. Your existing code will continue to work without changes, but you won't receive new features, updates, bug fixes, or security patches.

In keeping with industry best practices, we are consolidating the Box Next Generation SDKs and Box core SDKs into a single package. This makes migration easier and allows you to seamlessly add new capabilities to existing applications. Two consolidated versions are available in box-python-sdk:

• Version 4 (combined-sdk branch): Contains both boxsdk and box_sdk_gen packages for gradual migration.
• Version 10 (main branch): The latest major release containing only box_sdk_gen.

For more details, see our SDK versioning strategy document.

Box Python SDK Gen

This library provides access to the Box Platform API from Python.

Table of contents

• Box Python SDK Gen
• Table of contents
• Installing
• Getting Started
• Documentation
• Upgrades
• Integration Tests
  • Running integration tests locally
    • Create Platform Application
    • Export configuration
    • Running tests
• Questions, Bugs, and Feature Requests?
• Copyright and License

Installing

Caution

This package is deprecated. For new projects, install box-python-sdk instead: pip install "boxsdk>=10".

pip install box-sdk-gen

This is autogenerated Box SDK version. Supported Python versions are Python 3.8 and above.

To install also extra dependencies required for JWT authentication, use command:

pip install "box-sdk-gen[jwt]"

Getting Started

The full API of this library is listed in api.md, with code samples for each manager in docs/.

To get started with the SDK, get a Developer Token from the Configuration page of your app in the Box Developer Console. You can use this token to make test calls for your own Box account.

The SDK provides an BoxDeveloperTokenAuth class, which allows you to authenticate using your Developer Token. Use instance of BoxDeveloperTokenAuth to initialize BoxClient object. Using BoxClient object you can access managers, which allow you to perform some operations on your Box account.

The example below demonstrates how to authenticate with Developer Token and print names of all items inside a root folder.

from box_sdk_gen import BoxClient, BoxDeveloperTokenAuth

def main(token: str):
    auth: BoxDeveloperTokenAuth = BoxDeveloperTokenAuth(token=token)
    client: BoxClient = BoxClient(auth=auth)
    for item in client.folders.get_folder_items('0').entries:
        print(item.name)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main('INSERT YOUR DEVELOPER TOKEN HERE')

Documentation

• api.md: every manager and method on BoxClient, with signatures and return types.
• docs/: code samples for each manager, plus guides for authentication, configuration, and the client.
• Box API Reference: the underlying REST API.

For box-python-sdk, the maintained replacement for this package, see its README and docs.

Upgrades

Upgrading from our legacy SDKs to the new generation SDKs is a straightforward process. See our migration guide and changelog for more information.

Integration Tests

Running integration tests locally

Create Platform Application

To run integration tests locally you will need a Custom App created in the Box Developer Console with Server Authentication (with JWT) selected as authentication method. Once created you can edit properties of the application:

• In section App Access Level select App + Enterprise Access. You can enable all Application Scopes.
• In section Advanced Features enable Make API calls using the as-user header and Generate user access tokens.

Now select Authorization and submit application to be reviewed by account admin.

Export configuration

1. Select Configuration tab and in the bottom in the section App Settings download your app configuration settings as JSON.
2. Encode configuration file to Base64, e.g. using command: base64 -i path_to_json_file
3. Set environment variable: JWT_CONFIG_BASE_64 with base64 encoded jwt configuration file
4. Set environment variable: BOX_FILE_REQUEST_ID with ID of file request already created in the user account, BOX_EXTERNAL_USER_EMAIL with email of free external user which not belongs to any enterprise.
5. Set environment variable: WORKFLOW_FOLDER_ID with the ID of the Relay workflow that deletes the file that triggered the workflow. The workflow should have a manual start to be able to start it from the API.
6. Set environment variable: APP_ITEM_ASSOCIATION_FILE_ID to the ID of the file with associated app item and APP_ITEM_ASSOCIATION_FOLDER_ID to the ID of the folder with associated app item.
7. Set environment variable: APP_ITEM_SHARED_LINK to the shared link associated with app item.
8. Set environment variable: SLACK_AUTOMATION_USER_ID to the ID of the user responsible for the Slack automation, SLACK_ORG_ID to the ID of the Slack organization and SLACK_PARTNER_ITEM_ID to the ID of the Slack partner item.

Running tests

To run integration tests locally:

1. pip install -r requirements-test.txt
2. pytest

Questions, Bugs, and Feature Requests?

Need to contact us directly? Browse the issues tickets! Or, if that doesn't work, file a new one and we will get back to you. If you have general questions about the Box API, you can post to the Box Developer Forum.

Copyright and License

Copyright 2023 Box, Inc. All rights reserved.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.