How to Link to Files at Google Docs for Direct Download

Google doesn't tell you this, as far as I know - so, if you want to link to a file at Google Docs for direct download you can use the following address scheme:

https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=YourIndividualID

You can copy your individual file id from within the "Share..."-dialogue. Here you also need to put the share settings to "public" or to "anyone with the link"

a HTML example for this link to a pdf-file:

<a href="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&amp;id=Your Google Doc ID here"</a>

Your google doc id is looks like this:  0B2wAunwURQNsNWU1NjcyOGMTAtOTc5ZjUwMmZiZDMy.


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