How to download files and folders from Onedrive using wget?

Question

How to use wget to download files from Onedrive? (and batch files and entire folders, if possible)

Answer 1

Update on APRIL 2021: It looks like this solution NO LONGER WORKS WITH ONEDRIVE FOR BUSINESS.

There is one way that works for me (based on How to Make Direct Link of OneDrive Files)

1. Right-click on the file you are interested in download (from web interface), and choose Embed.

2. Press "Generate HTML code to embed this file".

3. Copy the part contained in the "" of src is your link. This will look like <https://onedrive.live.com/embed?cid=6EBB03E38A53ED3E& resid=6EBB03E38A53ED3E%21116&authkey=AC4lDqtLG8LqfiA>.

4. Replace embed with download. This will look like https://onedrive.live.com/download?cid=6EBB03E38A53ED3E&resid=6EBB03E38A53ED3E%21116&authkey=AC4lDqtLG8LqfiA.

5. Feed it to wget using following syntax (the quotes are required):

    wget --no-check-certificate "https://onedrive.live.com/download?cid=6EBB03E38A53ED3E&resid=6EBB03E38A53ED3E%21116&authkey=AC4lDqtLG8LqfiA"
   

6. Enjoy.

Answer 2

Using Chrome (but Firefox will probably also work).

1. Open DevTools
2. Click the Download button.
3. Download but cancel immediately
4. Open the 'Network' tab in DevTools. Search for 'Zip?authKey=' in DevTools and open it (click). This is a POST request.
5. Click 'View source' to the right of 'Form data' at the bottom.
6. Construct the command as follows:

 

wget --post-data='<raw form data>' '<Download URL>'

Or:

wget --post-data='resIds=xxx&canary=yyy&authkey=zzz' 'https://cid--foobar.users.storage.live.com/downloadfiles/V1/Zip?authKey=zzz'

This even works on a different host (with a different IP address).

Answer 3

generate a sharing link and append "&download=1" to the end of it.

e.g. if the link is "https://some.host/:z:/x/personal/some_user/123456asdf?e=12345"

then

wget "https://some.host/:z:/x/personal/some_user/123456asdf?e=12345&download=1"

Answer 4

Also, we can use CurlWget I already tried on OneDrive and Google Drive

Answer 5

If you are looking to download an entire publicly shared folder (without auth!): OneDeath

It uses wget to do some API calls and will then recursively download files. Bonus: sha1 checks of finished files.

Sharepoint is now also supported, but it's a little trickier (it currently fetches more files from a drive than what is shown by the link). A major problem was a slightly different API structure and the fact that the session token expires after 1h, but it's solved too. They also appear to have some rate-limiting in place, so don't start too many parallel downloads.

The script can extract ready-to-use wget commands using the -w parameter.

PS: If you are interested to know more about the web API, I will give a run down of the process.

Answer 6

1. Open the link in web interface like Chrome.
2. Click "Download" on the top left.
3. At the bottom, click "Show All".
4. Find the downloading or downloaded file, right click the long link and click "Copy Link Address".
5. wget the long address in command line.

Answer 7

This python SDK (with example) for OneDrive project works (for personal, business, and corporate accounts):

https://github.com/OneDrive/onedrive-sdk-python

Answer 8

You can embed the file and Replace embed with a download. This will look like https://onedrive.live.com/download?cid=6EBB03E38A53ED3E&resid=6EBB03E38A53ED3E%21116&authkey=AC4lDqtLG8LqfiA.

Now use PHP curl to get this file content

$download_url = "https://onedrive.live.com/download?cid=6EBB03E38A53ED3E&resid=6EBB03E38A53ED3E%21116&authkey=AC4lDqtLG8LqfiA"; 
$file_name = "test.xlsx";  
$ch = curl_init($download_url); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, 1);  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 20);
    
 $data = curl_exec($ch);  
$code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);  
$content_type = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_CONTENT_TYPE);  
$error = curl_errno($ch);  
curl_close($ch);   // A file with the same name may exist, that must be handled.  $file_save_path =   $file_name;
file_put_contents($file_save_path, $data);    

echo 'File successfully retrieved and stored!';

Answer 9

I actually have an alternative solution:

1. set-up OneDrive on you computer. This won't download the files on your local machine so don't need to worry about disk space.
2. open a terminal window in the OneDrive folder on your computer then you can copy the contents of a specific folder like this:

cp -r <MY_BIG_ONEDRIVE_FOLDER>/ <MY_DESTINATION_FOLDER>

Where <MY_BIG_ONEDRIVE_FOLDER> is the name of the OneDrive folder you want to copy files from and <MY_DESTINATION_FOLDER> is the destination folder.

I'm actually using this approach right now while I'm writing this post to copy +200Gb of files from my OneDrive folder to my external hard-drive.