Get web link

get
https://api.box.com/2.0
/web_links/:web_link_id

Retrieve information about a web link.

Request

application/json

Path Parameters

Response

application/jsonWeb link

Returns the web link object.

application/jsonClient error

An unexpected client error.

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Get web link
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Request Example

cURL
curl -X GET https://api.box.com/2.0/web_links/12345 \
     -H 'Authorization: Bearer <ACCESS_TOKEN>'
.NET
BoxWebLink link = await client.WebLinksManager.GetWebLinkAsync("11111");
Java
BoxWebLink webLink = new BoxWebLink(api, id);
BoxWebLink.Info webLinkInfo = webLink.getInfo();
Python
web_link = client.web_link(web_link_id='12345').get()
print('Web Link ID is {0} and its type is {1}'.format(web_link.id, web_link.type))
Node
client.weblinks.get('11111')
	.then(weblink => {
		/* weblink -> {
			type: 'web_link',
			id: '11111',
			sequence_id: '0',
			etag: '0',
			name: 'Box Website!',
			url: 'https://www.box.com',
			created_by: 
			{ type: 'user',
				id: '33333',
				name: 'Example User',
				login: 'user@example.com' },
			created_at: '2015-05-07T15:00:01-07:00',
			modified_at: '2015-05-07T15:00:01-07:00',
			parent: 
			{ type: 'folder',
				id: '22222',
				sequence_id: '1',
				etag: '1',
				name: 'Bookmarks' },
			description: 'Enterprise Cloud Content Management',
			item_status: 'active',
			trashed_at: null,
			purged_at: null,
			shared_link: null,
			path_collection: 
			{ total_count: 2,
				entries: 
				[ { type: 'folder',
					id: '0',
					sequence_id: null,
					etag: null,
					name: 'All Files' },
					{ type: 'folder',
					id: '22222',
					sequence_id: '1',
					etag: '1',
					name: 'Bookmarks' } ] },
			modified_by: 
			{ type: 'user',
				id: '33333',
				name: 'Example User',
				login: 'user@example.com' },
			owned_by: 
			{ type: 'user',
				id: '33333',
				name: 'Example User',
				login: 'user@example.com' } }
		*/
	});