Read only access to a shared drive url

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Hi,

I don’t ask for help but for guidance.

I’m looking for a solution to access read-only various drives that people shares with me on my request. I would like to mount them and to be able to quickly browse files, looking for the few ones I need to work on and downloading them. Further more, it should be mounted on a linux box that act as a local server.

People allways gives me a web url from their drive on Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive or Dropbox. It contains pictures and there is a lot of drives I have to access periodicaly. To open the web url with Firefox is not enough, because there is usually a bunch of file names to read before accessing the ones I need and because I am on an island with a slow internet connection.

I was hoping Rclone was the right tool for that. But after reading the docs I am not sure. Any clue?

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--read-only Only allow read-only access.

The HTTP remote is a read only remote for reading files of a webserver
however, in most cases, rclone can only access static webpages, not dynamically created.

another option is to create a gdrive remote using your gdrive credentails.
use --drive-shared-with-me
mount that gdrive remote

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Thankyou very much. So, my best option is to create a Google Drive account and add shares in it, then access my GDrive through Rclone, right ?

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i think so, but there might be a better option that i do not know about.

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