List User's Collections

To list all collections for a user, call the GET /collections API.

curl -i -X GET "https://api.box.com/2.0/collections" \
     -H "authorization: Bearer <ACCESS_TOKEN>"

Favorites Collection

The only collection that can items can currently be added and removed to via the API is the "Favorites" collection.

The ID of the favorites collection is different for every user. To find the user's collection ID for their favorites, list all the user's collections and then find the collection with a collection_type of favorites.

{
  "entries": [
    {
      "collection_type": "favorites",
      "id": "12345678",
      "name": "Favorites",
      "type": "collection"
    }
  ],
  "limit": 100,
  "offset": 0,
  "total_count": 1
}