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copied!<ol> <li>You register your application on Box</li> <li>After registration you receive clientId and clientSecret once on Box website</li> <li>You hardcode your credentials somewhere in your application</li> <li>First time your application needs to access Box API it should redirect user to <code>https://www.box.com/api/oauth2/authorize</code>, specifying your clientId, clientSecret and redirectURI as parameters. About redirectURI see below.</li> <li>The box.com website opens. User enters his own credentials in the web form on box.com</li> <li>User allows your application to access his files via API on the box.com website</li> <li>Box redirects user back to you application using redirectURI specified before. One of the parameters to this request is "code". This is a very short-lived (30 seconds) access code that is only aligable for obtaining real access token.</li> <li>During next 30 seconds your application should make another call to Box API to next URL: <code>https://www.box.com/api/oauth2/token</code>, specifying the previously obtained code. If everything was correct, your application receives an access_token, a refresh_token and "expires" values.</li> <li>Now your application can make requests to Box API, specifying access_token every time</li> <li>access_token expires in number of seconds, specified in "expires" field. It should be about 3600 seconds or 1 hour. Each time your application sees that access_token has expired, it should make another request to Box with the refresh_token and obtain a fresh access_token for another 1 hour.</li> <li>refresh_token itself expires in 14 days</li> </ol> <p>Note: if you develop a desktop application, then you should open browser for user on the step 4, redirectURI should be something like <code>http://127.0.0.1:8080/Callback</code> and you should run a small webserver just to catch the redirect with the code as in step 7.</p>

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