Box for large files

Box offers 10gb of online storage for free, double what anyone else offers, with an individual max size of 2gb, but you can only upload 250mb files. So how do you upload that 2gb file? The Box API that's how, either with regular ol' requests or their fancy smancy sdk. First follow the Getting Started instructions, sign up for a developer account and create a temporary key. Then in Python, try this out:

# import the requests package
import requests

# copy your token here
TOKEN = "<your developer token>"

# try to get the top level folder, id: "0", using this command exactly as below:
r = requests.get(url='https://api.box.com/2.0/folders/0',
                 headers={'Authorization': 'Bearer %s' % TOKEN})

# check the response
r
#  <Response [200]>
# success!

# get the output
r.json()
# lots of stuff

# upload a file, using the commands exactly as below, except put the actual id number
# of the desired folder
FILES = {'file': open('path/to/myfile','rb')}
PAYLOAD = {'attributes': '{"name":"myfile", "parent":{"id":"<id # of desired folder>"}}'}
r = requests.post(url='https://upload.box.com/api/2.0/files/content',
                  headers={'Authorization': 'Bearer %s' % TOKEN},
                  files=FILES,
                  data=PAYLOAD)

# check the response
r
#  <Response [201]>
# success!