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Arne517
New member | Level 2
8 years ago

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...
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JustMe2012
New member | Level 2
8 years ago

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.

  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
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    8 years ago
    We've had our engineers working on this and the good news is the problem has been fixed. Please try again and you should find that this functionality works correctly.

    Apologies for any inconvenience this caused.
    • SeppeR's avatar
      SeppeR
      Explorer | Level 4
      8 years ago
      Thanks! Works again!
    • JonnyO's avatar
      JonnyO
      Explorer | Level 3
      8 years ago

      Work on some links but not all

      • Greg-DB's avatar
        Greg-DB
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        8 years ago

        JonnyO Can you share the details for what's currently not working for you? Thanks in advance! 

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