I put “permanent” in scare quotes because a user can unshare the file at any time or simply move or delete it, at which point the link will stop working. Converting a share link is useful if you need a more “permanent” download link. Simply Enter your and Sharing URL and the Tool Will Provide you / Generate the Direct Download Clickable Links for you. If you just need to download the file once, it’s probably better to use a media link (“direct link” in Chooser terminology), but those links expire after four hours. For example, here again is me advocating. If you have a share link for a file, you can download the file directly by using the ?raw=1 query parameter. Share links can be created from the Dropbox UI (right-click and select “Share Dropbox Link”), or they can be created using the Core API. Ī share link renders a preview of the content and offers options for the user to download or view the actual file. You can also sign in with your Facebook or Google accounts. The URL looks like this picture of me doing my job as a developer advocate. Please follow the instruction below to learn how to download file to Dropbox from URL in MultCloud.

A “Dropbox share link” is a link that’s intended to be sent out to another Dropbox user.

Dropbox direct download link