Force render issues (raw=1) and shared links won't work for hosting.

Hi Stratoman, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

Could you try these steps to see if they help with your shared links?

Keep me posted!

Been using the raw=1 code at the end of Dropbox links to load images to a Wordpress site that has very limited local storage. All of the images uploaded with this link are no longer loading, but images from the web are still working fine.

Hi Msloane2, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

Just for clarification, when you say 'images from the web', do you mean when you open the shared link from outside of the Wordpress site?

This will help me to assist further!

It sounds like the link itself is working normally in that case. This would be an issue with how Wordpress is processing the image link. Have you tried contacting them directly regarding this matter?

Thanks Jay, I've had the same issue, the thing that worked for me is this: 

• Replacing www with dl works exactly like a ?raw=1 link: this will directly render content for public links in the browser. It requires following an HTTP 302 redirect.

• Works like a ?raw=1 link, but the application or browser will not need to follow an HTTP 302 redirect to access the content.

the other options are not functionning anymore, please what's the reason behind this strange behavior ?

Hi,

I'm seeing a related problem. On an animation forum where I've shared hundreds of images for training and demonstration, I'm now seeing broken image links.

These images were shared from my Dropbox account using raw=1 in the link path, and this had worked perfectly for many years. The images broke sometime this morning.

I checked various browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge,) and the images shared with Dropbox appear broken in all of them.

I had wondered if this was temporary server issue on Dropbox's end, but it's been like this all day.

Thanks in advance for any assistance! 

iframe embed stopped working on a client's website. All of her videos are embedded by iframe and were fine until this morning. Now we just get www.dropbox.com refused to connect.

The links are still valid and videos are working in dropbox, just not where embedded. Has something changed or is there a problem with dropbox?

Did you get a fix? All of my iframe embedded videos using the raw=1 change in the link have stopped working on Wordpress too. 

Hello there, 

Im having a major problem withe embedding dropbox video anywhere.  MY first post so sorry for potentially noob question. 

I use dropbox to embed videos on Shopify, Readymag and other platforms for over 3 years.  

I was always using online service https://onelineplayer.com/  to generate <ifame  

Yesterday some of the videos just stopped working and are showing grey board with info "video not found or not supported) while other videos, treated in exactly same way are working correctly. Help please this issue happened on live projects and I am being chased by clients/ex clients! 

Example of dropbox video working correctly: 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/usjnn0cvqzxi60h/grassmarket.mp4?st=gvsu6qd4&dl=0

Example of video not working at all: 

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zde0g1iziy6odzamrqttu/RC-V8.mp4?rlkey=b5wjofa7um0yu77xkhqa57yow&st=7j6uczlw&dl=0

I have also notices that the links of the videos with the problem have different structure. Not sure why (these are in the same folder on dropbox) 

I will also add I found a solution which seems to be working but for a few hours only: 

I change the ending of not working video from dl=0 to raw=1 

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zde0g1iziy6odzamrqttu/RC-V8.mp4?rlkey=b5wjofa7um0yu77xkhqa57yow&st=7j6uczlw&raw=1

than I paste it to chrome and it becomes this:

https://uc27c9b8945c96f243beea1e4a95.dl.dropboxusercontent.com/cd/0/inline/CSN2427839uNIE7qx9JeRVigSiefSBGyR1OQW09O2xEfexfRhDyCVchARrH7s4VC7pizaRqeQ70qy_jNyffVEr9ir9gZ6WeRLCAl6FEqviDEigT72knRS9y3tl2C1BVQGqJPj5v6-VaUyVdqfzo2UpSG/file

I use this link to feed it to https://onelineplayer.com/ and this works perfectly fine BUT only for a few hours. 

help please I might be overcomplicating this, I jsut want to udersntand why some old videos work ok and some are not. 

maybe there is also an easier way of embedding videos on the website.