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Dropbox – Forcefully Download Shared Files And Folder

Dropbox - Forcefully Download Shared Files And Folder

Quick tips and tricks to download shared files and folder from the Shared URLs links

Today many people , organization are using dropbox for file sharing and storage. Some People uses dropbox to share and store files on daily basis..

We are come across the scenario where we need to download the shared file from dropbox and process it in our system. To make it automated process we need to forcefully download files from the shared URLs link

So here is some trick and tips to download the file / folder forcefully from shared links

Forcefully Download DropBox File From Shared URL

To bypass the preview page replace www with dl and dropbox with dropboxusercontent in your URL. For example

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xttkmuvu7hh72vu/MyFile.pdf

Becomes:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/xttkmuvu7hh72vu/MyFile.pdf

Forcefully Download Entire DropBox Folder From Shared URL

Forcefully Download Entire DropBox Folder From Shared URL You can also download the entire SHARED Dropbox folder files forcefully by adding following dl=1 as a querystring parameter in shared URL. For Example here is the shared links for folder.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xttkmuvu7hh72vu

Becomes:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xttkmuvu7hh72vu?dl=1