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vauxhallpartsuk
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8 years ago
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using dropbox to host a video on ebay?

Hi, new to all this and dont really know alot about it so thought it was best just to ask, on ebay one seller had dropbox videos in his listing https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/223124970807?ViewItem=&item=...
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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    8 years ago

    At the end of the link, replace the ?dl=0 with ?raw=1.

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Walter
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8 years ago

Hey there vauxhallpartsuk - welcome to our forums and thanks for using Dropbox!

From what I see on the link you provided they seem to have used a shared link to embed this video file on eBay. 

[With Dropbox, you can create a sharable link to any file or folder in your Dropbox folder. Anyone with the link can view the contents, but can’t edit them.]

Let me know if this helped at all! 

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    vauxhallpartsuk
    New member | Level 2
    8 years ago

    Hi, its not that easy, i have tried, it needs to be added to embeded code 

    <video width="480" height="320" style="font-size: 14pt; min-width: 100%; max-width: 100%;" src="https://dl.dropbox.com/s/kwcz4hih8e7a2q6/91133%20%282016%29%20Vauxhall%20Corsa.mp4?dl=0" autoplay="" loop="" controls="true" muted="" type="video/mp4" playsinline=""></video>

     

    that is the code they use but i cant get mine to work like there one 

    thanks for the help

    • Rich's avatar
      Rich
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      8 years ago

      At the end of the link, replace the ?dl=0 with ?raw=1.

      • vauxhallpartsuk's avatar
        vauxhallpartsuk
        New member | Level 2
        8 years ago

        tried that but it didnt work either and if you look at the embeded code they use the ?dl=0 is in theres so im not sure what im doing wrong as they have it working on ebay 

        thanks for trying though 

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