How do I make it so that a file automatically starts downloading when I open my website?

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Im using this command to download a file when I click on the download button in my website

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<a href="text.txt" download>download </a>

its working perfectly but when I go to for example https://website.com/text.txt it does not download automatically how can I make it do so?

What I have tried:

I have tried removing the download text but that doesn't work

Posted 16-Oct-22 1:07am

Arnav Deshmukh 2022

Updated 16-Oct-22 5:31am

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Dave Kreskowiak · Answer 1 · 2022-10-16T05:31:00

Solution 1

There is no way to force a download from that link when the page loads. That's just not an option.

You would have to use javascript to download the file automatically. Some examples:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3916191/download-data-url-file[^]

Posted 16-Oct-22 5:31am

Dave Kreskowiak