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JudStephenson
New member | Level 2
8 years ago

Direct Download raw=1 Doesn't Work

We've recently become unable to directly download dropbox files via CLI (via curl). We used to append `raw=1` to the share link, and everything would work.   Now, appending raw=1 to the share link ...
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hahmed44
Explorer | Level 3
8 years ago
Hi. No error message would come up. My music would just simply fail to play anymore but I believe it may be fixed. I posted my question on the community site posting a new question because I noticed this thread was old and I didn’t think anyone would answer back. Thank you so much for your reply. Rich replied to me with what I believe to be the answer to part of my problems. Plus I went back to tumblr and redid all of my music and they started working again. I don’t know why I had to redo them with the same html codes to make them work?!?

Thank you for your help. I truly appreciate it.

Hana
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florianCH
New member | Level 2
7 years ago

Hi Dropbox Team!
I also tried to embed videos (.mp4) hosted in my dropbox, using the share link with raw=1. However this does not work anymore. I cannot use the link to directly view the video in the browser (the HTML5 Player starts but the video is not loaded).

Using dl=1, it gets downloaded correctly, and using dl=0, i get on the dropbox page with the embedded player which also plays the video correctly. What had happened?

Thanks, Florian

UPDATE: I tried with a small sample video and it worked, and with my 3min file it still did not work. Could it be that the limitation occurs when trying to stream it partially when it's too large?

However my video does not have a preview in explorer, and the sample video has it, so maybe that was simply a conversion fault and the file is corrupted.

  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
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    7 years ago

    florianCH Can you check the network request, e.g., using the developer tools in your browser, to see what error/response you're getting for the larger file?

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      florianCH
      New member | Level 2
      7 years ago

      Hello Greg, thank you for your response!
      Meanwhile I have found out that this video was the only one where this happened, and it originated from an online converter tool. So I'm just going to assume that the video itself was faulty, because it worked for all other videos i've tried.

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