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Arne517
New member | Level 2
7 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
7 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.

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Greg-DB
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7 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
    7 years ago
    Thanks! Works again!
  • JonnyO's avatar
    JonnyO
    Explorer | Level 3
    7 years ago

    Work on some links but not all

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

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

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        JonnyO
        Explorer | Level 3
        7 years ago

        Sorry! Was forced to work around the problem that was happening to one specific file called "gdpr-logic.js". Tried recreating the link about 10 times without success.

        My workaround after two hours of trying different things became:
        1. Create a file (test.txt) and test dl=1 on that. Success on third attempt!
        2. Copy the content of the failing js-file to test.txt. New link. Still worked.

        3. Rename to test.js. Still worked.

        4. Delete the failing gdpr-logic.js

        5. Rename test.js to gdpr-logic.js. Still works!

         

        Sorry! Hope my explanation can help you.

         

        /Jonny

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