How to Generate Direct links of Google Drive, Dropbox files
If we are unable to send more than
10MB, 20 MB and More data through email by Outlook or Gmail. In our daily
working environment some of us would want to share the direct links for the
files, so that any user can initiate the download just by clicking that
hyperlink.
Note: You can't create direct download URLs for the folders you
have in Google drive and Onedrive. Instead, you can compress the folders as
.rar or .zip archive and you can create direct URLs for those files.
- Google Drive
- Dropbox
- Onedrive (Skydrive)
Google drive
As Google has updated the user
interface of Google drive recently, I'm going to give instructions to obtain
the share links in the new interface.
1. Type www.google.com on browser.
2. Click the wrench in the top right corner.
3. Then click on Drive.
4. New window is open then click on Go
to Google Drive.
5. Login with your google Id or
gmail ID.
6. Right click the file you want to
create download link, then select share.
7. Now,
click on 'Get sharable link'.
8. That's
all now the link would have been copied to your clipboard.
9. Direct
download link would be created without any problem.
10. Now
you can send this above link to anyone for direct download data.
11. Copied
Url directly Past on browser.
Then click
on file and click on download button.
Dropbox
Unlike Google drive & onedrive
you can create direct URLs for folders too.
- Login to Dropbox.
- Hover over the folder you want to share directly and click 'Share' and then select 'Send link...'
- If it is a file then select 'Share'.
- Copy the URL under 'Link to file' or 'Link to folder'.
- Use the URL to create download link.
Note: You can simply create direct URLs for your Dropbox files by
changing the '0' into '1' in the share URL.
Onedrive
- Right click the file, for which you want to create download URL, then select share.
- Then, click on 'Get a link'.
- Under 'Choose an option' select 'Public'.
- Click on 'Create link'.
- Now, you will be given a link. Use that to create direct link.