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Wget or Curl is not downloading a folder as expected via the CLI in Linux
I am trying to download a shared folder into a unix server. I first copied that folder to my dropbox and then generated a share link. The link looks something like this:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/v5xxxxxxx/AB1xxxxxxx?rlkey=123456abc&dl=1I have tried multiple CLI commands. Some of them are below:
wget https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/v5xxxxxx/AB1xxxxxx?rlkey=12345abc&dl=1
wget https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/v5xxxxxx/AB1xxxxxx?rlkey=12345abc&dl=1 --content-disposition
curl -L -o output.zip https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/v5xxxxxx/AB1xxxxxx?rlkey=12345abc&dl=1None of them download the folder but download some script instead.
I have tried pasting the URL on the web browser and that works and I can see a ~140GB zipped file starting a download.
Also, I have also tested TLS connection as I saw in another post that it might have an impact. TLS v1.2 seems to be working in my CLI but not v1.3.
Any help is greatly appreciated as I have been stuck on this for so many days now!
TIA
1 Reply
- Jay
Dropbox Staff
Hi perdive, thanks for bringing this to our attention.
While we don't directly support using a CLI to download files from the Dropbox site, in general, they should work since there isn't any real difference from downloading them when compared to a browser.
Could you try changing the dl=1 to raw=1 to see if this works in your first example, like so?
wget https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/v5xxxxxx/AB1xxxxxx?rlkey=12345abc&raw=1Keep me updated with any progress!
