Dear Nebu Mathew,

Thank you for posting your query in our community.

I understand your concern and would like to convey that There are no built-in functions to achieve your requirement; however, you can try the workaround below. according to my test, you can achieve your request by following the below steps ( kindly please follow below steps )

• First, we need a couple of things to achieve it.

1. Google Chrome browser. ( Version 126.0.6478.114 (Official Build) (64-bit))
2. notepad.

Please go to share SharePoint site that your files contain>> right-click on the file you want to make a downloadable link >> right-click on it >>> share >>anyone link click the link. ( How ever please do not use this link we only share it with anyone link to get permission to the file.)

Using your Chrome browser right click on the file you want to make the downloadable link >> click on download >> go to the download section in Chrome browser >>> right-click on the URL >> and save it to Notepad.

• You can use this URL and when you click on it it will automatically download

Please note that the user must be logged into their Microsoft account with the necessary permissions for this link to work. If a sign-in page shows up lease login with a Microsoft credential then file will download automatically

It's not a limitation this Issue happens because of this feature has not been implemented for SharePoint pages yet. Currently, the only workaround is to use the methord I mentioned above.

We find multiple users request the same question in the feedback community. Please don’t worry, we believe the Microsoft developer team will implement this future in the near future.

You can keep an eye on our Office 365 roadmap to know when this option will be released to the public. Entrance ---->> Microsoft 365 Roadmap

Thank you for your brilliant idea. It is very useful for the future. We appreciate you bringing this to our attention. Please share your feedback in our community feedback section for our developer team to review. You can find the entrance to the feedback community here --->Welcome to Feedback (Preview)

Appreciate your patience and understanding. Have a great day!

Yours sincerely,

Sophia

Download File from URL

There are a couple ways to do this. As mentioned, using the developer tools could work (more likely it will give you the url to the file) and right-clicking the link will work. Alternatively there are these options.

In Chrome

1. Go to the URL
2. Right-click the webpage
3. Select Save As...

For verification purposes, here are png, jpg, and mp3 links. Follow them and try these steps. However, in my experience. If you already have a url to a file, opening up Chrome and following these steps is rather tedious so here is an alternative.

In Command Line

1. Open your favorite terminal emulator
2. type curl -O URL

• Where O is written in capital
• And URL is the URL to the file, e.g. http://example.com/file.mp3

Evidently I was wrong. pythonanywhere is really easy. (But you must use any paid plan in order to access most outside servers (i.e. get files from any website you want)). As of right now, the cheapest plan they have is $5 a month.

Stackoverflow isn't a code-writing service. But enjoy this little exception.

here's a basic implementation of what you've asked for:

We're gonna use an HTTP server written in Python, using a framework called Flask. That server will provide two functions:

1. Serve us that basic form you've described
2. allow us to request from the backend the file we want, and it will force our web browser to download it (and not display it, for example)

Step 1

Create a "pythonanywhere" account. Attention: your website will be hosted on username.pythonanywhere.com, choose wisely.

hit "open web tab"*

Step 2

Select the latest Flask version in "add new web app" (3.10 in this case) and hit Next.

Step 3

verify the website works, click on that link, you should see "Hello from Flask!".

Step 4

Go to the "Files" tab, enter the mysite directory

and create a new directory called "templates"

Step 5

Create a new file called index.html, and put this html in it:

(css and form taken from w3schools)

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<style>
input[type=text], select {
  width: 100%;
  padding: 12px 20px;
  margin: 8px 0;
  display: inline-block;
  border: 1px solid #ccc;
  border-radius: 4px;
  box-sizing: border-box;
}

input[type=submit] {
  width: 100%;
  background-color: #4CAF50;
  color: white;
  padding: 14px 20px;
  margin: 8px 0;
  border: none;
  border-radius: 4px;
  cursor: pointer;
}

input[type=submit]:hover {
  background-color: #45a049;
}

div {
  border-radius: 5px;
  background-color: #f2f2f2;
  padding: 20px;
}
</style>
<body>

<h3>File Proxy</h3>

<div>
  <form method="POST" action="/download"> <!-- notice the @app.route("/download"...) in the flask file -->
    <label for="fpath">File Path</label>
    <input type="text" id="fpath" name="fpath" placeholder="Path...">  
  
    <input type="submit" value="Submit">
  </form>
</div>

</body>
</html>

Hit save

Step 6

Go back to the "Files" tab, and enter mysite directory again.

edit the flask_app.py file

and replace the code in it with the following:

from flask import Flask, request, render_template, Response
import requests
app = Flask(__name__)

content_type_to_extension={"text/html": ".html"}

FALLBACK_EXTENSION=".bin"

# get the path from the form, GET it ourselves, and return it with a content-type that will force the client's browser to download it and not attempt to display it.
@app.route("/download", methods=["POST"])
def loadData():
    data = request.form["fpath"]
    
    r = requests.get(data)
    response = Response(
        r.content,
        status=r.status_code,
        content_type="application/stream"
        # content_type=r.headers['content-type']
    )
 
    # basic naming attempt. if it has a uri (text after the last /), let's (maybe falsly, this is a POC) assume that it has a file extension. (you can add regex tests and whatnot)
    try:
        fname = data.replace('://','')
        fname = fname[fname.rindex("/")+1:]
        assert (len(fname) > 1)
    except (IndexError, ValueError, AssertionError):
        fname = data.replace("/", "-")
        ext = content_type_to_extension.get(r.headers['content-type'].split(";")[0], FALLBACK_EXTENSION) # if we can't find ther correct extension, fallback to .bin
        fname += ext

    response.headers["Content-Disposition"] = f'attachment; filename={fname}'
    return response


@app.route("/")
def index():
    return render_template("index.html") # that html file in /templates

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app.run(host='0.0.0.0')

Hit save

Step 7

Go back to the "web" tab, and hit that green "reload" button. (or the blue reload icon next to the save in the flask_app.py edit panel)

And go to your website.

The requests library requires a schema to be specified. so don't forget the http(s):// or add it via python.

If you don't have a paid account, checking out the error logs in the "web" tab tells us

OSError('Tunnel connection failed: 403 Forbidden')))
**NO MATCH**

or

Network is unreachable

So you gotta go with a paid plan. Or find some other method to host your web server.

For the record - what we're doing here is creating a "dumbed-down" web gui version of a cli http client, like wget or curl.

you could just run in bash / powershell wget <your-url> and it would be basically the same.

In modern browsers that support HTML5, the following is possible:

<a href="link/to/your/download/file" download>Download link</a>

You also can use this:

<a href="link/to/your/download/file" download="filename">Download link</a>

This will allow you to change the name of the file actually being downloaded.