Function to create box folder and file requests

box-request.sh

function box-request()

{
    _BEARER_TOKEN="<box app token>"
    _FOLDER_NAME=$1

    echo -n "Creating ${_FOLDER_NAME}"
    _FOLDER_ID=$(curl -sX POST https://api.box.com/2.0/folders \
        -H "Authorization: Bearer ${_BEARER_TOKEN}" \
        -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
        -d '{
          "name": "'${_FOLDER_NAME}'",
          "parent": {
            "id": "109957074997"
          }
        }' | jq -r '.id')
    echo "... done"

    echo -n "Creating file request"
    _FOLDER_REQUEST_URL=$(curl -s "https://app.box.com/app-api/file-request-web/file-request?folderId=${_FOLDER_ID}" \
        -H "Authorization: Bearer ${_BEARER_TOKEN}" \
        -H 'Content-Type: application/json' | jq -r '.url')
    echo "... done"

    echo "You can access the box folder here: https://app.box.com/folder/${_FOLDER_ID}"
    echo "File request URL: https://app.box.com${_FOLDER_REQUEST_URL}"
    echo "https://app.box.com${_FOLDER_REQUEST_URL}" | pbcopy
    echo "File request URL copied to clipboard!"
}

Setup:

1. visit https://app.box.com/developers/console/newapp and generate a new custom app token, choose OAuth 2.0 with JWT
2. copy the bearer token to the _BEARER_TOKEN variable
3. copy this to your .bashrc or .zshrc
4. source ~/.zshrc etc
5. box-request <folder>