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JudStephenson
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8 years ago

Direct Download raw=1 Doesn't Work

We've recently become unable to directly download dropbox files via CLI (via curl). We used to append `raw=1` to the share link, and everything would work.   Now, appending raw=1 to the share link ...
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Greg-DB
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7 years ago

florianCH Can you check the network request, e.g., using the developer tools in your browser, to see what error/response you're getting for the larger file?

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florianCH
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7 years ago

Hello Greg, thank you for your response!
Meanwhile I have found out that this video was the only one where this happened, and it originated from an online converter tool. So I'm just going to assume that the video itself was faulty, because it worked for all other videos i've tried.

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