I have been trying to use Curl and wget to download file from Sharepoint. I am planning to make it as Script which runs automatically everyday and download the file from URL.
I tried using CURL with following command
curl -O --user Myusername:Mypassword https://OurDomain.sharepoint.com/_XXX&file=IPS_cleaned.xlsx&action=default
But it gave me error about SSL connection. I got to know that there is some existing bug in CURL 7.35 So i downgraded it to 7.22. But still gives me same error.
I also tried using Wget
wget --user=Myusername --password=MyPassword --no-check-certificate https://OurDomain.sharepoint.com/_XXX&file=IPS_cleaned.xlsx&action=default
But it still gives me error -- Unable to establish SSL connection
Can someone please let me know how i can accomplish my task
UPDATE
I was able to resolve the error in CURL. Below is the command that i gave
curl -O -L --sslv3 -A "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.A.B.C Safari/525.13" --user Myusername:Mypassword 'https://OurDomain.sharepoint.com/_%7BB21r-9CA2-345DEF%7D&file=IPS_cleaned.xlsx&action=default'
Now what it downloads is a file, which when i open it shows me Login page of Sharepoint. It does not download the actual excel file.
Any reason?
Another potential solution to this involves taking your sharepoint link and replacing the text after the '?' with download=1:
This:
https://my.sharepoint.com/:u:/g/XXX/XXXX-bunchofRandomText?e=kRlVi
Becomes this:
https://my.sharepoint.com/:u:/g/XXX/XXXX-bunchofRandomText?download=1
Now, you can just:
wget https://my.sharepoint.com/:u:/g/XXX/XXXX-bunchofRandomText?download=1
*Note, this example used a single file and a link where anyone with the link could access the file (no credentials required)
Please use rclone
Download and install the latest one from https://rclone.org/downloads
First option: Use OneDrive to access SharePoint sites/personal folder. This option will help you to upload large files.
1.create rclone configurations using the rclone config command
2.Select New remote and give a name
3.Select cloud storage OneDrive
4.Leave client ID and secret as blank
5.Edit advanced config: n
6.Remote config: Use auto-config: y
7.Open the URL on the browser and give access to rclone
8.Select personal/shared site URL option
8a.Shared site URL option you have to give the site URL. ie; https://sharepoint.com/sites/SiteName
9.Select personal/Documents drive. Documents drive will show if you selected the shared site URL option in the 8th step
Save config and quit
And the configuration file contents will be like the following. If you selected the Personal option drive type will be personal.
[onedrive]
type = onedrive
token =
drive_id =
drive_type = documentLibrary
Second option: In this option, you can upload up to 2 GB-sized files.
1.create rclone configurations using rclone config command
2.Select New remote and give a name
3.Select cloud storage WebDAV
4.Give site URL, username and password
5.Save and quit
And the configuration file contents will be like the following. Password will be in an encrypted format.
vim /root/.config/rclone/rclone.conf
[sharepoint]
type = webdav
url = https://sharepoint.com/sites/SiteName/Documents
vendor = sharepoint
user =
pass =
Download a file from SharePoint.
rclone copy --ignore-times --ignore-size --verbose sharepoint:SourceFolder/file.txt DestFolder
Firefox plugin that captures the link with session ID etc.. and it provides a command you could paste in the console for curl or wget.
If anyone has a better suggestion please let me know.
It gives you a curl or wget command with headers, cookies and all, with a copy to clipboard button, right on the download dialogue.
Download URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cliget
Reference: https://superuser.com/questions/27243/how-to-find-out-the-real-download-url-on-download-sites-that-use-redirects/1239026#1239026
Struggled with the same issue myself, and had my not-so-automatic-but-man-so-convenient way, with a daily log-in.
logged into Sharepoint with a browser,
exported the cookie,
run the following command.
wget --cookies=on --load-cookies cookies.txt --keep-session-cookies --no-check-certificate -m https://yoursharepoint.com
And files were downloaded just fine.
For anyone using CURL to download a file on Sharepoint with an "Anyone with the link" download option. Below are the steps I had to follow to download. Essentially you have to use the cookie from the share link, and then download the file from a different download link they don't provide easily for you.
When sending the CURL command for the “share link” it returns a 302 message, a forward link, and a cookie. If we save that cookie and use it to hit a “download” link I am able to download the file. Essentially, Microsoft uses the initial “share link” to send the cookie to the browser, and then redirect to their “View File” website. On that website you need to use the cookie provided (authentication), and select your next function (On screen view, print, download, etc). When you click the download button you hit a different link. I was able to find this link by going to the "view page" website for the file/link, turning on developer tools, and watching the link the browser follows when hitting download. You can then replicate that link for each file. If we use that download link along with the cookie, we can download the file.
curl -i -c cookies.txt SHARE LINK
curl -o docsdownloaded.pdf -b cookies.txt DOWNLOAD LINK
Share Link Ex: https://tenant.sharepoint.com/:b:/s/Folder/EdNUf4xAVzFJgBoO0MqkfppR5tgobxLrmCnRqU4LFJQ?e=rOGNSD
Download Link Ex:https://tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/Folder/_layouts/15/download.aspx?SourceUrl=%2Fsites%2FFolder%2FShared%20Documents%2FGeneral%2FBig%2Dfile%2Epdf
Similar to the answer Zyglute gave, using cURL:
You can export your login cookie using the cookies.txt Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/njabckikapfpffapmjgojcnbfjonfjfg
Then use the following code:
curl -b cookie.txt https://OurDomain.sharepoint.com/_XXX&file=IPS_cleaned.xlsx&action=default
At some point your Sharepoint session will expire (not sure how long that takes), and you will need a new cookie file.
EDIT: If a malicious user gets a hold of your cookie.txt, they could get into your SharePoint account, so be sure to keep it safe.
Use wget adding &download=1 at the end of the link.
wget "<yourlink>&download=1"
it will be download with <yourlink> string as name, then just mv with the correct name after.
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I want to download these public folders on sharepoint using a command in terminal (Ubuntu server connected via ssh).
I select all folders then hit Download button, it starts to downloading them in Firefox, I tried to copy the download link which is the following and give it to wget
wget https://japaneast1-mediap.svc.ms/transform/zip?cs=fFNQTw
However, it just download few bytes and stops:
--2021-05-06 21:41:27-- https://japaneast1-mediap.svc.ms/transform/zip?cs=fFNQTw
Resolving japaneast1-mediap.svc.ms (japaneast1-mediap.svc.ms)... 13.107.136.13
Connecting to japaneast1-mediap.svc.ms (japaneast1-mediap.svc.ms)|13.107.136.13|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 0
Saving to: ‘zip?cs=fFNQTw.5’
zip?cs=fFNQTw.5 [ <=> ] 0 --.-KB/s in `0s`
2021-05-06 21:41:29 (0.00 B/s) - ‘zip?cs=fFNQTw.5’ saved [0/0]
I was able to download the file in FireFox since it uses some session and cookie variables. For example, I couldn't download it in Chrome when I wasn't logged in Microsoft account, and when I logged in again I couldn't access the page.
Anyways, the following FireFox add-on was a solution. It copies any required variable and make a link that can be used in curl.
Download login-protected files from the command line using curl, wget or aria2.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cliget/
Yo
I'm trying to download a file from DigitalBlasphemy.com using lftp and pget on cygwin on windows.
Now, the usual route involves logging in to the website via web browser (It asks for username and password).
When I try to use lftp's pget command to download the file, lftp just farts out with "401 Unauthorized". How can I provide the relevant credentials to my command?
You have to edit the url of the file you are downloading.
For example instead of
pget https://example.com/directory-structure/filename.ext
you have to do
pget https://username:password#example.com/directory-structure/filename.ext
i have an internal Linux http server where directories with a specific naming convention will be uploaded on a daily basis from a remote site.
url: http://10.10.10.10/test
Contents
test123
test124
test125
test126
All directories will be having date and timestamp as well. Is there any way i can download the latest directory starting with test using wget or curl to my local machine? in this example it is test126
Kindly help
wget doesn't do that automatically, you can do it in two steps:
download http://10.10.10.10/test, parse it, get the last entry
feed the result to wget -r
In these cases though the best solution is to set a symlink on the server that points always to the last directory, in your case:
http://10.10.10.10/test/latest -> http://10.10.10.10/test/test126
I'm trying to download some URLs using wget. I get files with no problem except for this link Offensive-Security-ICQ and any other link on www.offensive-security.com.
I tried on both Linux and Windows with many trials and alot of search, but in vain.
I use this command "wget https://www.offensive-security.com/pwbonline/icq.html"
The resulted file shows this symbols and it is ANSI decoded
How can I solve this problem??
For some reason, the server does not return the html page but a zipped version of it. The file you get is identified as a gzip compressed data:
$ file icq.html
icq.html: gzip compressed data, from Unix
So you can simply unzip it and you get the correct html page.
Why is the server doing that: not sure, but it's probably some default setting that has been left as is, so you can download faster.
How can one directly donwload the html content: probably by sending some common user agent and header, so that the server thinks that its a common web browser doing the request instead of a download tool.
This can be done with wget using some options, for example, this should work:
wget --header="Accept: text/html" --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0" https://www.offensive-security.com/pwbonline/icq.html
I have a problem while sending file from linux to SharePoint. Everything is fine if I am uploading to existing directory, I use this method:
curl --ntlm --user username:password --upload-file myfile.xls https://sharepointserver.com/sites/mysite/myfile.xls
Unfortunately problem arises when I point the target to non existing directory, like:
curl --ntlm --user username:password --upload-file myfile.xls https://sharepointserver.com/sites/mysite/nonexist/myfile.xls
I would like it to create all necessary directorie on the path. I've tried to use "--create-dirs" CURL option, but it doesn't work.
Any ideas how to achieve the goal? It doesn't have to be CURL actually, i can use different method available on linux.
As the name (CLIENT URL) suggests, you will not be able to create new directories on remote SERVERS involving http/https while uploading files.
For downloads involving http/https server, --create-dirs option is applicable only on local machines to create new directories (for instance, when you are downloading a content on to your local linux machine).
However, while using ftp/sftp to a server, you will be able to create new directories on the remote server.