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Need a tighter view? Replace the range range name–e.g. Schedule–and add top 10 to reveal only the decade of laggers. The result recalculates each time you open the file, so zero additional steps or plugins are necessary.

Crave a 16:9 thumbnail? Glue on =w1920-h1080 before the ampersand; fancy WebP? Add -rw to the width value. Google honors the first dimension parameter and auto-compresses above 2 560 px, so clamp width below that threshold to avoid quality loss. Bookmarklet version: javascript:location.href=location.href.replace('/file/d/','/uc?id=').replace(//view.*/,'')–pull it to the toolbar, instant grab.

Build dropdown-controlled status labels that color-code by publishing stage Set up a single-column roster on a secret sheet: Draft, Polish, Slated, Online, Shelved. Select the status column in the tracker, hit Data → Validate → Range list and link to that list. Tick Display dropdown in cell and Refuse errors to block typos.

Drop in the hash in https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1Ab2Cd3Ef4Gh5Ij6Kl7Mn8Op9Qr0StUvW with a custom string and stick &confirm=t to skip the virus-scan page; this single tweak turns any shareable address into a one-click download. Mass-convert hundreds of addresses in under 60 seconds: drop the spreadsheet column into ="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=" & MID(A1,34,33), extend the formula down, then copy-paste values–no scripts, no limits, no sign-in. Hot-link protection is disabled by default, so embed the rewritten URL in , CSS background:url(), or Markdown image tags; the file flows at full bandwidth and does not trigger the viewer overlay that pushes users to press "Download". Morph a Google Drive Shareable URL to a Direct Download Link in 30 Seconds Switch /file/d/ with /uc?id= and delete everything after the file ID. Original shareable address: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aB2cD3eF4gH5iJ6kL7mN8oP9qR0sT1uV/view?usp=sharing Instant-download address: https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1aB2cD3eF4gH5iJ6kL7mN8oP9qR0sT1uV Append &export=download to bypass the virus-scan page: https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1aB2cD3eF4gH5iJ6kL7mN8oP9qR0sT1uV&export=download Bulk-flip dozens at once: dump the shareable strings into any text editor, run a regex find/replace pattern https://drive\.google\.com/file/d/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/.* → https://drive.google.com/uc?id=$1&export=download. Runs in Sublime. File heavier than 100 MB? Tack &confirm=t to kill the oversized warning. Snag the finished string into an tag or a QR encoder; zero auth required for the recipient. Bypass Google Drive Viewer: Force Files to Download Direct to Disk Replace /view or /edit in the shareable URL with /uc?export=download and strip every parameter after the file ID. The resulting string looks like: https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1AbC2dEfG3hIjKl4MnOpQrStUvWxYz5aB Drop it into any browser or wget/curl statement; the binary streams immediately without the preview page.

Heavy items (> 100 MB) trigger a virus-scan wall. Tack &confirm=t to skip the prompt: https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&confirm=t&id=1AbC2dEfG3hIjKl4MnOpQrStUvWxYz5aB Directories cannot be fetched this way; process each file ID one by one. Mass operations: list every ID in a text file and run while IFS= read -r id; do wget -O "$id.bin" "https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&confirm=t&id=$id"; done out.push([ file.getName(), 'https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=' + item.fetchIdent() ])); f.getFolders().forEach(sub => crawl(sub))

crawl(folder); return ContentService.createTextOutput(JSON.stringify(out)).setMimeType(ContentService.MimeType.JSON);

Quota tip: the Colab route burns ~2 % of your daily UrlFetch calls per 1 000 files; Apps Script uses 1 query per Google Drive file direct link–stay under 20 000 by chunking folder lists into 1 000-row pages with pageToken.

Swap /open?id= with /uc?id= and trim all after the next forward slash. Drop the result into a fresh tab–if the photo renders solo, you’ve scored a naked endpoint that circles the viewer wrapper and serves the binary straight from Mountain View’s CDN.