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Direct download using ?dl=1 returns html page
Hi,
I'm downloading a folder from dropbox using `curl` with the public share url, and the `dl=1` query parameter.
This used to work perfectly until this morning, when it started returning a html page instead. Is this change intentional, and if so, what would be the recommended way to directly download files then?
Thanks in advance
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Thanks for the report! We'll check on this and follow up here.to add to this: the html file that is download (even with follow redirects ON with curl) will download the file if loaded into a browser...
Hi Greg,
Any updates on this issue? We really need this functionality.
Thanks in advance.
- Greg-DBI don't have an update on this yet. I'll follow up here once I do.
Also having this issue using Python urllib.urlretrieve to download the ZIP of a shared DropBox folder with ?dl=1 appended to the end of a shared url link. This has worked for years and started failing the end of last week. Zip file downloaded contains HTML page rather than ZIP files.
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