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April 18, 2017
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How to make a link for direct download

  • April 18, 2017
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Hello everyone. There's something that has been driving mi crazy lately.

I made a webpage that includes a video played in HTML 5 and a link to download the same video. But when I try to download it, the video becomes fullscreen, so the only way to download it is by right click and selecting "save links as" which is a litlte annoying (not for me, but some people)

My question is, how can I make a link to download this video in a simple clic??

Greetings!

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Correct answer Nancy OShea

Zip it.  

Or use a force download script in PHP or some other server-side language that your hosting plan supports.

Script to force the browser to download a file, rather than trying to open it when clicking it's link · GitHub

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April 18, 2017

Zip it.  

Or use a force download script in PHP or some other server-side language that your hosting plan supports.

Script to force the browser to download a file, rather than trying to open it when clicking it's link · GitHub

Nancy

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert