Direct dowload link for Cloud services: Google Drive, pCloud or Icedrive

Hello Jeff,

I love your plugin. One of your wishes is: “Supports all local and remote downloads”
However I cannot get the plugin to work together with cloud storage services like Google Drive, pCloud or Icedrive.
E.g. I created a Google-drive-file-sharing link for a pdf file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aAIq1N1MLG6Cm59TzfPTlQdbhlrPNfKc/view?usp=sharing
This link is “open” and it works for sharing (you can try it). However when I put this URL in the “Download URL” input box of the plugin, save it and use it’s permalink, it does not download the (pdf) file, but instead it downloads a “view” file, which basically is a html representation of the Google drive preview page.

The same holds for Cloud services like pCloud.com and icedrive.net. It seems this has to do with the fact that there is no direct download link available for these cloud services.

The following article suggests a solution for creating a direct downkload URL for Google drive, transforming the Google-drive-sharing-URL in:

https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1aAIq1N1MLG6Cm59TzfPTlQdbhlrPNfKc&export=download

However this URL gives an error after updating this URL: “File does not exist. Error code: 7”

The article also suggests to use the Google Drive Direct Link Generator: https://sites.google.com/site/gdocs2direct/ This creates the following output link: https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1aAIq1N1MLG6Cm59TzfPTlQdbhlrPNfKc

The last URL also gives the “File does not exist. Error code: 7” error after updating.

Is there a way to make the Simple Download Counter working with the file sharing option in Google Drive?

Thx in advance!
/// Henk

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