Features

Some of the features of the Box connector include:

• • Ability to perform either full or incremental crawling (so that only new/updated documents are indexed)
  • Possibility of exclude a folder or a set of folders and their content.
  • Possibility of exclude or include elements (folders or files) by file name or folder name using regular expression (regex patterns)
  • Metadata extraction
  • it is search engine independent
  • Runs from any machine with access to the given Box account
  • Fetches access control lists (ACLs)

Content Retrieved

The Box connector retrieves several types of documents. Listed below are the inclusions and exclusions to these documents.

Include

• • Folders
  • Folder’s collaborations
  • Files
  • Box Note
  • Bookmark
  • Google Doc
  • Google Spreadsheet
  • Word document
  • PowerPoint document
  • Excel Spreadsheet
  • File’s comments
  • File’s tasks
  • Task’s assignments
  • Users and Groups (memberships)
  • Events (for Incremental crawls)
    • ITEM_CREATE
    • ITEM_UPLOAD
    • COMMENT_CREATE
    • ITEM_MOVE
    • ITEM_COPY
    • TASK_ASSIGNMENT_CREATE
    • ITEM_TRASH
    • COLLAB_ADD_COLLABORATOR
    • ITEM_RENAME

Exclude

• Example Doc Type

Limitations 

Due to API limitations, Box connector has the following limitations:

• Box connector crawls only the latest version of files.
• Box connector does not crawls any Trash items (folders or files)
• Incremental limitations
  
  • When there is change on a Box Note will not reflect in the incremental crawl.
    
    
• Box API request limitation
  • In certain cases, Box needs to enforce rate-limiting in order to prevent abuse by third-party services and/or users. In the event that an excessive level of usage is reached, a standard 429 Too Many Requests error will be returned, with an indication of when to retry the request. In the event that back-to-back 429s are received. RETRY HEADER HTTP/1.1 429 Too Many Requests Retry-After: {retry time in seconds}

Please see more information at, https://developers.box.com/docs/#rate-limiting

Future Development Plan 

The following features are not currently implemented, but are on the development plan:

• Example future plan

Anything we should add? Please let us know.