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Shared Link / "scl" to "s"
Hello. My question concerns my recent issue with file sharing. Usually, my links were generated in this way: 'https://www.dropbox.com/s/'. However, lately, every file is being generated in this way: ...
Direct Download on new link architecture is Solved
What is the DL parameter?
- Default link. This will render the content in the Dropbox file viewer.
- Downloads the content of the link (if the user has access to the content based on link settings). This query parameter takes precedence even if raw=1 is also added.
- Directly renders the content in the browser (if the link has a public audience and no other restrictions). Note that this link has an HTTP 302 redirect, so the application or browser must be able to follow the redirect.
What are the dl.dropbox... modifications?
These are link transformations from the early days of Dropbox. While we don't "officially" list these anymore in our Help Center, we are continuing to support them for now.- Replacing www with dl works exactly like a ?raw=1 link: this will directly render content for public links in the browser. It requires following an HTTP 302 redirect.
- Works like a ?raw=1 link, but the application or browser will not need to follow an HTTP 302 redirect to access the content.
Previously I used to show the images uploaded to Dropbox on my website by just changing dl=0 to raw=1 and it used to work. Like https://www.dropbox.com/s/v2dy95zd8x42ltr/seller2_F621.jpeg?dl=0 This link should open a Dropbox page as there was dl=0 and by changing it to raw=1, https://www.dropbox.com/s/v2dy95zd8x42ltr/seller2_F621.jpeg?raw=1 This link should open direct image so using this URL, i could display that image on my web page. But now it is not working for new images. Like first of all, it generated share link like this: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/fwrhf6r6uqggydb4dhqwl/seller1_ip122.jpeg?dl=0&rlkey=s0867maaaffmhxcp9swed2q05 Which has few more parameters than the previous version. Here even by changing thoes parameters, it is not showing direct image. It just leads to Dropbox page. I fetched these links using API for Dropbox Developers. I used to store thoes fetched links and changing dl=0 to raw=1 so that I could directly access images to webpage.
If you know solution about it then please share!
Hi pritesh12,
Did you try the following:
Seems it works. Although, as always, links are not direct, but you know this. It's not an issue for browsers.
Good luck.
