How to download a Dropbox folder someone shared me

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Someone has shared a Dropbox folder with me. I got a URL to access the folder through the web interface. How can I download the entire folder?

Note: The folder is too large to add to my Dropbox.

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There's kind of a workaround. Add

?dl=1

at the end of the link that was shared with you. This will download the entire folder as a neatly zipped archive.

Note: This will not work with folders > 20GB or with more than 10,000 files.

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Dropbox – Download Complete Shared Folder in Photos

You could try this method posted on Mac OS X Hints:

Just stick the folder of files into your public folder, and head to the Dropbox webapp. Click on the folder you want to share, then click the “Get Link” button at the top of the page. Add ?dl=1 to the end of it, and send that link to your friends. It’ll zip the file up for them and download it to their computer. (Lifehacker synopsis)

Dropbox Links – How to Create a Public Link from a Shared Folder

The link generated for a file is something like this:

https://www.dropbox.com/_someRandomStrings_/_theNameOfTheFile

If you replace www with dl it will take you directly to the respective file. Alternatively, adding ?dl=1 at the end of the link above, will redirect it to the dl.dropbox.com URL.

Now, if you have the link to a folder and you add ?dl=1 at the end, it will start downloading it as an archive.

Source. And the official source.

(I have tested the method and it works.)

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