Downloading file using IE from python

Question

I\'m trying to download file with Python using IE:

from win32com.client import DispatchWithEvents

class EventHandler(object):
    def OnDownloadBegin(self):
            


        

Answer 1

One option could also be to embed your own browser.

Thats e.g. possible with Qt via PyQt (GPL) or PySide (LGPL). There you could embed the WebKit engine. You could then either display the page in a QWebView and let the user navigate to your download and filter that event or use a simple QWebPage where everything could be automated and nothing has to be shown at all.

And WebKit should be mighty enough to do anything you want.

Very basic example:

import sys

from PySide import QtCore, QtGui, QtWebKit

url = 'http://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/PySideDownloads/'

class TestKit(QtCore.QObject):
    def __init__(self, app):
        self.page = QtWebKit.QWebPage()
        self.page.loadFinished.connect(self.finished)
        self.page.mainFrame().load(QtCore.QUrl(url))
        self.app = app

    def finished(self, evt):
        # inspect DOM -> navigate to next page or download
        print self.page.currentFrame().documentElement().toInnerXml().encode(
                'utf-8')
        # when everything is done
        self.app.quit()


if __name__ == '__main__':
    app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
    t = TestKit(app)
    sys.exit(app.exec_())