HOW TO GET DIRECT DOWNLOAD LINK FOR ONEDRIVE FILES

HOW TO GET DIRECT DOWNLOAD LINK FOR ONEDRIVE FILES. You can easily share the download link and folders that you store in OneDrive by creating download share link.

But how to get direct/native link for OneDrive files? How to get permanent link for OneDrive files?

What’s the use of direct/permanent link? Direct link is very useful while you want to provide a download link, anyone can download a file by clicking the direct link. And, for a website, it’s very important to have direct file link for downloadable items. Users don’t have to leave the website to download a file.

Get Direct/Permanent Link for OneDrive Files
Follow the two simple steps to get OneDrive permanent link or OneDrive direct link to file –

1. Open OneDrive and Copy Embed Code
To get embed code, open OneDrive and open the file folder and then select the file you want to share. And then right-click mouse on the file. From the options, click on “Embed”

After this, embed code will be generated for the file. Copy (Ctrl + C to copy) the embed code by clicking on it.

The embed code will be generated for the file, copy the embed code for the file.

2. Paste the Embed Code and Modify
Now paste the embed code you copied in a notepad or a text editor.

You have to modify this code, remove everything except source URL of the file and then just replace embed with download to get direct/permanent link. After this modification, the link should look like this.

onedrive.live.com/download?cid=FA476CAFF1A7E75C…

That’s the OneDrive direct or native link for the file and its a permanent link. So you can use the link for lifetime! The direct/permanent link will skip the Google Drive web viewer. You can test the link we shared. It should start download without going OneDrive website.

You can get OneDrive direct/permanent/native link for any file by this process. The best thing is, OneDrive provides permanent links for large files also, where Google Drive doesn’t provide for large files. There is no way to skip Google Drive web viewer for large files (larger than 100MB).

Hope this helps greetings Mark Kooijman from plrdaily.com/ dont forget to like this video.