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sprocketq
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6 years ago

Script (BAT or ps1) to download file from link that is password protected

I have been searching for a way to create a bat script(prefered) or powershell script to download files from dropbox via link that are password protected.    I have searched and found the curl mi...
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sprocketq
Explorer | Level 3
6 years ago

I've been doing more testing and research, do I have to generate a token to make this work? Is there a way to do this without creating an app token? 

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    sprocketq
    Explorer | Level 3
    6 years ago

    Thanks Greg-DB  

     

    My goal is I am trying to create a script that my team can use to download files to client's machines on an as-needed use. I would like to password protect the files being downloaded and build that out into the script as an input. I'm trying to limit it to only nativiely built in options built into the Windows platform. 

     

    Are there any other avenues I should look at, that I'm not thinking of? 

     

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      Greg-DB
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      6 years ago

      Dropbox does offer another way for programmatically downloading files from shared links, as documented here, but that doesn't offer an option for specifying a password. So, if you need to password-protect the link, that won't work. Dropbox doesn't offer anything like this beyond these two methods though.

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