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Box

Business software

Built when you ask for it

Sync Box files, folders, and content activity into your warehouse. Ingest builds this connector the first time a customer asks for it, then keeps the tables current in a data warehouse you own, on the schedule you choose.

The Box connector syncs your content management data into analytics-ready tables in your data warehouse. Pull files, folders, users, and events from the Box API, with Ingest handling auth, pagination, and retries so the tables stay current.

What you would get

Each of these arrives as its own table, kept current on the schedule you choose:

  • Files
  • Folders
  • Users
  • Events

How it gets built

  1. Choose Box when you set up a pipeline, with the warehouse it goes to and a schedule.
  2. Ingest reads Box's documentation, and you choose the tables you want.
  3. Ingest builds the connector and tests it against Box itself.
  4. A person at Ingest reviews and publishes it, and your pipeline starts on its own.

What you will need

OAuth2 (Client Credentials Grant). Create a Custom App in the Box Developer Console for a Client ID/Secret that authenticates without end-user login.

You enter it once, in a form in Ingest, and it is kept in a secret store set aside for your organization.

Questions

Does Ingest have a Box connector?
Not as a finished connector yet. Ingest builds it from Box's own documentation the first time a customer asks, tests it against the real service, and lists it once it passes.
Which warehouses can Box data go to?
Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage, Apache Iceberg, Ingest Managed Lakehouse, MotherDuck, Postgres, Amazon Athena, Databricks, Redshift, BigQuery, ClickHouse, MySQL / generic SQL and Snowflake, in an account you own.
Do I need to write code?
No. Ingest builds, runs and maintains the connector. Someone with access to your warehouse connects it once, following a short guide.

Box API documentation: https://developer.box.com/

Setting up the destination is its own short guide, one per warehouse or lake: Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage, Apache Iceberg, Ingest Managed Lakehouse, MotherDuck, Postgres, Amazon Athena, Databricks, Redshift, BigQuery, ClickHouse, MySQL / generic SQL, Snowflake.

Other sources Ingest connects for SaaS teams: Asana, Jira, Airtable, Clockify, Facebook Ads, Frankfurter.

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