Can't use "go stack url" with Google Drive

[kaveh1000]

I am trying to open a remote Stack that is on my Google Drive, shared for anyone to download. The url is

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vvFOm ... p=drive_fs

I get no error, but the stack does not open. Any ideas pls?

Attached is the simple stack.

[bogs]

The problem is you would have to
* know the actual URL for the file itself (the url you have in this thread is to G-drives view page)
If the file were hosted on a plain server, for instance, you could link directly to it, which is what 'go stack url()' needs.
Or ...
* know the api to post what the download button on the page does (no idea how you would implement that)
or ...
* something else to work around that view page.

I get no error, but the stack does not open. Any ideas pls?

I doubt using that address would produce an error, but it probably returns empty as the result.

[jacque]

I fought with this for a long time and never did get it to work for everyone. If you search Google you'll find some suggested URL alterations but they're old and I couldn't get them to work. I think Google changed their download behavior after that suggestion was written. Only people in the access list could download even though file permissions were set to "anyone with the link." I ended up putting the file on a private server.

[kaveh1000]

Phew. I'm in good company!! Do you think it will work if I put it on an open FTP site or does it have to be http?

[bogs]

Depends on whether you need login info on the ftp site. If not, should make no difference, if so, you'd have to put the login info into the posting, which could be bad.

Best I could find before lunch about the google thang, https://www.labnol.org/internet/direct- ... ive/28356/

[kaveh1000]

Hi folks. Thanks to the last post by Bogs, the issue is solved. Here is the trick.

The link that Google Drive gives me when I ask for it is this horrendously long one:

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https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vvFOmmPij78kQrnFCYOieZSQP095CQdO&authuser=kaveh@rivervalleytechnologies.com&usp=drive_fs

When I click on it, in the browser I see a page with a link to download my file (the stack). Now if I copy the URL of that page, I get this less frightening URL:

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vvFOmmPij78kQrnFCYOieZSQP095CQdO/view

So this is the same link but more "logical"

The File_ID of the link is the text within the final set of slashes, i.e.

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1vvFOmmPij78kQrnFCYOieZSQP095CQdO

All we need to do is to add

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https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=

before that ID, and we have a direct link to the stack. Attached is the modified stack.

Thanks everyone...

[bogs]

Glad to hear it helped you out kaveh1000

Linux - LC 8.1.2 (didn't download your other stack, launched from the message box...)

LAUNCH!

[jacque]

Cool, I'll try it. Did you test it with a person who has no permissions at all, only the link? The older method I tried worked for me but not anyone else.

[bogs]

Heya Jacque, I am a tester with no credentials or permissions

If you want to test it from the message box, the actual format for the link (for Kaveh's file) should be this -

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https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1vvFOmmPij78kQrnFCYOieZSQP095CQdO

from the message box I typed -

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go url "https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1vvFOmmPij78kQrnFCYOieZSQP095CQdO"

and got the result you see 2 posts up.

Of course, if you want to experiment, send me a stack, I'll be happy to see if it works Just let me know which version of Lc to open it in, you know I always start in 6.x or lower