# Automatically updating source files that are hosted on Dropbox or Google drive

**URL:** <https://community.transifex.com/t/automatically-updating-source-files-that-are-hosted-on-dropbox-or-google-drive/64>\
**Category:** Tips and Tricks\
**Tags:** auto\_update\
**Created:** [September 28, 2018, 10:46am UTC](https://community.transifex.com/t/automatically-updating-source-files-that-are-hosted-on-dropbox-or-google-drive/64 "2018-09-28T10:46:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 10:46am UTC](https://community.transifex.com/t/automatically-updating-source-files-that-are-hosted-on-dropbox-or-google-drive/64/1 "2018-09-28T10:46:41Z")

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I provided Transifex with a specific URL in order to automatically update my resource using the “Automatic update of source files” feature. However, it keeps saying that the URL is not valid. Am I doing something wrong?

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**Author:** ![nina](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.transifex.com/nina/32/13_2.png) [@nina](https://community.transifex.com/u/nina)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 10:49am UTC](https://community.transifex.com/t/automatically-updating-source-files-that-are-hosted-on-dropbox-or-google-drive/64/2 "2018-09-28T10:49:19Z")

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**Dropbox**  
In order to ensure that Transifex receives a plain text copy of the file, you need to append “?raw=1” to the end of the URL.

So, instead of: `https://www.dropbox.com/....?dl=0`, the URL should be: `https://www.dropbox.com/....dl=0&raw=1` .

**Google Drive**

Transifex will check that URL for updates **4 times per day (every 6 hours)** and if there are any changes to the file, it’ll fetch the file and update the resource in Transifex. Because the check happens 4 times a day, there may be a delay between when you update a file and when Transifex detects the changes. The updated resource will automatically be available to your translators and reviewers.

In order to make this work, you need to:

**#1** : Upload the desired file as a new file to Google Drive.

**#2** : Generate the shareable link. It will look like this

[https://docs.google.com/document/d/FILE\_ID/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/FILE_ID/edit?usp=sharing)

**#2** : The format of the URL for auto-updating a file from google drive in Transifex is:  
`https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/FILE_ID/export?format=xlsx`