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Wednesday, 20 March 2013

How to get a direct download link from Google Drive

More people have a Google account, and also they use Google Drive to keep sync their files with all their devices. Sometimes can be happen to share a file with a friend or someone else and we need a direct download link without redirect other people to Google Drive, like other service over internet. A few steps allow us to avoiding to upload those files another time.


Step 1:
Open Google drive (but this is step 0 :D), and change the share options of the file (or even of the folder where the file is located). You can select to share the file with whom have the link or with everyone, but I think that without link is really hard download something...


Step 2:
Open the file and look for the code in the address bar:



Step 3:
Then the direct downloadable link of the file is:
http://drive.google.com/uc?id="CODE"
Where "CODE" is the previous code in the address bar. In this example the resulting direct link is:
http://drive.google.com/uc?id=0B1hmCdDvoPkIbmdLZlJobTluazQ


That's it, Now you and whoever you want can download directly a file with this link! Last thing, if a file, as a *.pdf, is open as preview, the code doesn't appear in the address bar. You must open the file in the web browser to see it.

4 comments:

  1. Mine only says "folderview?id=", not "uc?id="...

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    1. You have seen the link to a folder, not to a file.

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  2. Thank you... So, i can make direck link with google drive....

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