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dropbox-dl is a small command-line program written in PHP to recursively download the contents of a public Dropbox folder (no credentials or API key/secret required). This is a bit of a hack / workaround for Dropbox not allowing you to directly download a folder that is over 1 GB in size. See the unfortunate scenario below.

• Requires PHP 5.3.2 or higher.

Mac OS X users with Homebrew:

brew tap jbmcg/tap
brew install dropbox-dl

Other UNIX distros / manual installation:

curl -L https://github.com/jbmcg/dropbox-dl/raw/master/bin/dropbox-dl -o dropbox-dl
chmod a+rx dropbox-dl
mv dropbox-dl /usr/local/bin/dropbox-dl

The dropbox-dl executable is just a compiled .phar file so if you'd rather not install it globally, you can also just download and run it using:

php /path/to/dropbox-dl [OPTIONS]

dropbox-dl [url] [path] [recursive] [ext1] [ext2] ...

Download all files (including subfolders) to your current working directory:

dropbox-dl https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9d3gqhtqw0kf9d7/AAC09AQRODS_F7EVYXt5mgcMa

Download files on root of URL (no subfolders) to an existing folder on your desktop called "stuff":

dropbox-dl https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9d3gqhtqw0kf9d7/AAC09AQRODS_F7EVYXt5mgcMa ~/Desktop/stuff 0

Download only JPG, PNG, and GIF images (including those found in subfolders) to your current working directory:

dropbox-dl https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9d3gqhtqw0kf9d7/AAC09AQRODS_F7EVYXt5mgcMa . 1 jpg png gif