Use rclone without logging in

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Sorry if this is has already been answered elsewhere, first time using rclone forums.

Is it possible to use rclone to download from supported sites without logging in or making an account? I wanted to use rclone to download public/unlisted folders off of various supported sites, but it looks like rclone wants me to log in. I don't have an account on some of them (like proton) nor do I want to make one. I just saw that rclone could download from them, and I would prefer to download with rclone rather then the browser.

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@MorganYu

Hi,

Not sure if this is the only answer but I think as far as I know you need to have an account

You mentioned Proton Drive as an example I have a Proton Drive account and I use Rclone to access it however I don't think you can access someone's data in an account without logging into the account.

Which of the supported Clouds are you trying to access without logging in?

If you're looking to download files from a web page without loading a browser and you have the URL of the file you can use the command line utility wget. I know that it's available for Linux and I have a version of it that I downloaded for Windows.

You would run wget url

Hope that helps a little bit.

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Right now I'm trying to download from proton, but that doesn't seem like it would work with wget. When I tried with wget, it just downloaded the html formatting and the like (command was wget -mpkKE). I also occasionally download from mega, gdrive, and dropbox. The urls I'm trying to download from are all public, I can download from browser with no account needed, so I figure I should be able to download without an account.

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Hi,

I have a proton account also. Are you referring to the URL that you get when you share a file? Then in this case it creates a public link to the file.

I doubt rclone will know how to deal with that URL.

Proton Drive does not have a public API that allows third-party tools like rclone to interact with shared links programmatically.

  • Even if you have a shared link (e.g., https://drive.proton.me/url/XXXXX), rclone cannot authenticate or access it without official API support.
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so the only issue is with proton?
can you share a weblink?

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Hi,

Here is a sample from proton drive. It's a folder with one file in it.

Proton supports end to end encryption and the file and folder must first be decrypted before it can be viewed and I doubt that rclone can handle this. Give it a try and see if you can grab the file.

https://drive.proton.me/urls/0SARH3Z2SM#SMF0Zn9AFXsZ

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hi,
rclone can only download from simple static websites.

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That's what I was figuring.

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