Is there a way to force a download link instead of the browser trying to open the file? In this case I have a docs spreadsheet and a some links to mp3 files. I want the users to download these files instead of the browser playing it. The mp3's are hosted on another site.Thanks, Bo
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To make download links for documents - https://docs.google.com/feeds/download/documents/Export?docID=yourDocId
To make download links for any file - https://docs.google.com/uc?id=yourDocId&export=download&hl=en_US
To make download links for spreadsheets - https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/download/spreadsheets/Export?key=yourDocId&exportFormat=csv
For further information please go here
UPDATING IN 2018
The new download URL is https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/<KEY>/export?gid=<GID>&format=csv
where <KEY> and <GID> can be obtained from your navigation's URL, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/<KEY>/edit#gid=<GID>
PS: spreadsheets may have multiple workbooks, GID is the desired workbook ID. One-workbook-spreadsheet usually has gid=0, but if you add more they'll have random numbers (the GID is preseved even changing tab-order).
So, using wget or curl you can test,
To expand on Mokarom's answer (because I can't comment) you need to replace the part of those links that say 'yourDocId' with the document id of the page you're trying to download. This is the key= part of the url.
For example, if you had a spreadsheet at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhjOs40Xk1-4dGg0MjMVYURPMFRpeUFhbmZBTkZ0dEE#gid=8, then you would go to https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/download/spreadsheets/Export?key=0AhjOs40Xk1-4dGg0MjMVYURPMFRpeUFhbmZBTkZ0dEE&exportFormat=csv for the download link.
In my app I needed to download a Google Drive's spread sheet in the formof a CSV file (Comma Separated Values). Google Drive's files are referenced by long ID's such as:
1uFwmwD5UFLdD1DMPGT5p4fIGozfImx44DNCOeMJr1Lo
Here is a code block that will do this. If there is an error the method will return a zero length string.
Download View Only Google Doc
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