Download OnlyOffice files using Terminal

Daniel Ellis Research
2 min readApr 1, 2024

How to download OnlyOffice files with CURL or WGET on a headless machine.

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Ever tried a download link from OnlyOffice, only to hit a snag when using CURL or WGET? Instead of the file you expected, all you got was a frustrating 404 page in HTML format.

Fear not! The solution isn’t about mimicking a browser in your terminal, or even x-forwarding one- all it takes is…

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Daniel Ellis Research

Research Software Engineer specialising in High-Performance Computing and Data Visualisation. — PhD in Atmospheric Chemistry and Masters in Theoretical Physics.