BoxView

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'box_view'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install box_view

Configure with your Box View API key.

BoxView::Session.config do |config|
  config.box_view_token = YOUR_API_KEY
end

Or configure a session and pass it to the API when you instatiate it.

session = BoxView::Session.new(token: YOUR_API_KEY)
BoxView::Api::Document.new(session)

Upload a document at a url.

doc = BoxView::Api::Document.new.upload("http://www.example.com/myfile.pdf", "My File")

Check the document's status. When it is "done", you're ready to generate a viewing session.

doc = doc.reload
if doc.status == "done"
  document_session = doc.document_session
  view_url = document_session.view_url
end

Remove the document from Box View.

doc.destroy

List all of your Box View documents.

docs = BoxView::Api::Document.new.list

Generate a thumbnail of a document

f = File.open("myfile.pdf", 'w')
f.write(doc.thumbnail(100, 100))
f.flush
f.close

Download the conents in pdf or zip format

f = File.open("myfile.pdf", 'w')
f.write(doc.content("pdf"))
f.flush
f.close