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OSF Box Addon

Enabling the addon for development

Setting up Box for provider access

  1. Go to https://developer.box.com/ and create an account (You must make a developer account, not a regular box account)
  2. Verify your account and finish setting it up (The verification email may take a few minutes to show up)
  3. Click on your profile and go to > "Account Settings", then go to > "Dev Console"
  4. Create a new custom app with "Standard OAuth 2.0 (User Authentication)""
  5. Find your Client ID and Client secret and make a note of them, you'll need to input them into GV admin.
  6. Right below your Client ID and Secret fields, add http://localhost:5000/oauth/callback/box/ as your Redirect URI

Enabling on OSF

  1. If addons/box/settings/local.py does not yet exist, create a local box settings file with cp addons/box/settings/local-dist.py addons/box/settings/local.py
  2. Enter your Box client_id and client_secret
  3. Ensure "box" exists in the addons list in "addons.json"
  4. Enable your new Box provider