Google-sheets – way to get multiple share links from Google Drive in order

From a comment by Maxim:

Currently (2016.08), if I share a folder with another person, all files inside this folder get shared as well, but not the subfolders. In other words, Google Docs sharing it is not recursive, indeed, (though not in the way @Fibonacci described this).

The information that you are giving us is the link to the folder - not the link to the individual files within that folder.

That is why "anyone with the link" can get to the folder, but cannot get to items witin it, ie because they do not have the links to the items in the folder.

Arguably this is a silly distinction: if you want "anyone with the link" to see the folder, then surely you're implying that you've given them the file links, too. But this isn't how Drive is working at the moment, according to testing I just did in Chrome.

Right now, if you want me to see the contents of files in your Google Drive folders, then you have to give me the link to theose files, not just to the folders.

(This may be different if you set permissions to Public on the Web - if you want to test this, set up a folder and I'll take a look.)