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Get File Text

Extracts the text content of a Box file using its extracted_text representation. Works for office documents, presentations, spreadsheets, PDFs, and plain-text or code files. Box does not generate this representation for images (they have no text layer) or for files larger than 500 MB, and the action fails with an error when the file has no text representation. Use Download File to fetch the raw file instead. See the documentation
  • Action
  • Read only
  • OAuth
  • SDK
  • MCP

IMPLEMENTATION

Call this tool

Connect a user's Box account once, then configure and run Get File Text from your backend or agent.

import { PipedreamClient } from "@pipedream/sdk"

const pd = new PipedreamClient({
  projectId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_PROJECT_ID!,
  clientId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_ID!,
  clientSecret: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_SECRET!,
  projectEnvironment: "production",
})

const result = await pd.actions.run({
  id: "box-get-file-text",
  externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
  configuredProps: {
    box: { authProvisionId: "apn_xxxxxxx" },
    folderId: "Folder",
    fileId: "File",
  },
})

console.log(result)

SCHEMA

Inputs

Pipedream supplies the connected account. Your application provides the operation-specific values below. Dynamic inputs are resolved against that user's account.

Get File Text inputs
Property Type Description
folderId Folder string
The folder containing the file to extract text from. Use 0 for the root folder. Use the List Folders action to retrieve folder IDs.
Required Dynamic
fileId File string
The file to extract text from (e.g. 123456789). Use the List Folder Items action to retrieve file IDs.
Required Dynamic

REFERENCE

Tool details

Behavior hints are published with the component in the Pipedream registry and surface as MCP tool annotations, so an agent can reason about a tool before it calls it.

Registry key
box-get-file-text
Version
0.0.3
App
Box
Authentication
OAuth
Read-only
Yes
Destructive
No
Open world
Yes