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AYP-BOT
New member | Level 2
3 years ago

Error (403) when using direct link

Dear Experts,   I'd like to get a direct link to my video file (.mp4) that I uploaded to Dropbox to be used with the LINE Application Imagemap launched using JSON code, POSTMAN. The video does no...
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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
3 years ago

Hi AYP-BOT,

Such a message shows that you have destroyed your link somehow. How exactly you transformed it to direct link? Seems like mandatory link parameter 'rlkey' is removed while only 'dl' parameter has to change.

Hope this helps.

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    AYP-BOT
    New member | Level 2
    3 years ago

    Dear Здравко,

     

    Thank you for your message.

    I transformed the link by deleting all characters behind the file extension (.mp4) and then changed the www. to dl. 

    I got this method from Youtube's video clip. That tutorial worked fine but not for me even I copied every single step.

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