Download View-Only Protected PDFs from OneDrive 📥

How to Download View Only Protected PDF Files From OneDrive

Code to add:

`
-OutFile "$env:USERPROFILE\Downloads\document.pdf"

The line structure matters!

Greetings, in this OneDrive tutorial we shall be looking at how to download view only protected PDFs from OneDrive. This is great if you have access to a view only PDF file on OneDrive that you can't download but you want to make a local copy of it.

To download protected PDF files from OneDrive you will need to be on a Windows device and have Google Chrome.

The first step to downloading a view only PDF from OneDrive is to open up the view only PDF on OneDrive, then you need to open up the Google Chrome developer tools. You can press the F12 button on your keyboard to do this.

After that you need to go to the network tab and then reload the page. Now you want to order the entries in the network table by size, so the biggest files are at the top. The biggest file is going to be what you want to look at. The name will contain the text "passthrough" and the size will be roughly the same size as the PDF file you want to download.

Click on the name in the table. Then right click on it, go to copy then click on Copy as Powershell.

The next step is, we need to write a bit more code so we can then use Powershell to download the view only PDF from OneDrive. So open up some text editing software like notepad.

In notepad paste what you coppied, then add in the following:
`
-OutFile "$env:USERPROFILE\Downloads\document.pdf"

The ` needs to be on the same line as the }
The -OutFile "$env:USERPROFILE\Downloads\document.pdf" needs to be on the line underneath.

Then copy everything and open up Windows Powershell. This comes with Windows so no need to worry about downloading it.

Paste what you have coppied into Powershell and then press the enter key. You should now see some blue text saying Writing web request and a number of bytes written counter. This counter will be going up until it has finished creating your PDF file. Once the counter has gone, your PDF file will be saved to your downloads folder.

That is all you have to do to download a PDF from read only mode in OneDrive. This tutorial will also work for view only PDF files on Sharepoint.

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