Creating Dropbox Direct Download Links to Images or other files

When linking to images in Dropbox, by default a link is created to a web page with an image on that page.

 

To directly link to the image itself:

  1. Add the image to Dropbox
  2. Right click image -> Share Dropbox Link
  3. This will copy an image URL to your clipboard. The end of the URL will be "...?dl=0"
  4. Simply change the last 0 to a 1 so that it now reads "...?dl=1".

 

For example, this link:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/d24ikwklq0rdmc2/SparkShippingLogo.png?dl=0

 

Will now be:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/d24ikwklq0rdmc2/SparkShippingLogo.png?dl=1