Box

Box is a cloud content management platform where teams store, share, and collaborate on files and documents. It's widely used for document workflows, file-level access control, and enterprise content governance.

Connecting Box to Coupler.io lets you pull your content metadata, user activity, and signing workflows into spreadsheets, data warehouses, or AI tools for analysis and reporting.

Why connect Box to Coupler.io?

• Audit file and folder access by exporting collaboration permissions across your organization
• Track document signing workflows by syncing sign requests and sign templates
• Monitor user activity and compliance using admin logs and event streams
• Combine Box data with other sources using Join or Append transformations for richer reporting

Prerequisites

• A Box developer account with an app configured for Client Credentials Grant (CCG) authentication
• A Client ID, Client Secret, and Enterprise ID (or User ID) from your Box app settings
• Your Box app must have the appropriate scopes enabled (e.g., admin_readwrite for admin logs)

If you're auditing file access or tracking sign requests, start with the File collaborations and Sign requests entities — they give you the most actionable data right away.

Quick start

1

Create a new data flow in Coupler.io. From your Coupler.io dashboard, click Add data flow and search for Box as your source.

2

Enter your Box API credentials. You'll need your Client ID and Client Secret from your Box developer app. Coupler.io uses these to authenticate via the Client Credentials Grant flow. Paste them into the corresponding fields.

3

Enter your User ID. Specify the Box User ID you want to authenticate as. You can find this in your Box developer console or via the Box API. This tells Coupler.io which account context to use when fetching data.

4

Select an entity. Choose which Box data you want to pull — for example, Files, Users, Admin logs, or Sign requests. Each entity maps to a specific set of Box data.

5

Choose a destination. Select where you want your Box data to land — Google Sheets, Excel, BigQuery, Looker Studio, or an AI tool like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini.

6

Run your data flow. Click Run to execute a manual sync. Once it completes successfully, your Box data will appear in your chosen destination.

Available entities

Entity	Description
Events	User and enterprise activity events
Admin logs	Administrative logs for enterprise accounts
Files	Files stored in Box
Folders	Folders organizing Box content
File collaborations	Collaboration permissions on files
Folder collaborations	Collaboration permissions on folders
File comments	Comments added to files
File tasks	Tasks assigned to files
Collections	Groups of related Box content
Collection items	Items within Box collections
Sign requests	Document signing requests
Sign templates	Templates for signing workflows
Users	Box user accounts and profiles
Recent items	Recently accessed files and folders
Trashed items	Deleted files and folders in trash