To download a file from dropbox, the following steps have to be followed:
- In your dropbox folder, click the file you want to share, and then click
share
; and then clickcreate link
. - Once the link has been created, you can copy the link by
copy link
. This will copy the link into your clipboard. - You can paste it somewhere. It has a format similar to:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/m5ay6j4to7ryr4p/resizer.bit?dl=0
- Adjust the link to
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/m5ay6j4to7ryr4p/resizer.bit
. This can be done by replacing thewww.dropbox.com
todl.dropboxusercontent.com
, and removing the tail of?dl=0
. - In Linux, just use a command similar to:
wget https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/m5ay6j4to7ryr4p/resizer.bit --no-check-certificate
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