Selenium Chrome save as pdf change download folder

Question

I want to download a website as pdf file, it\'s working fine, but it should download the file to a specific path, instead it\'s just downloading the file to my default download

Answer 1

The download.default_directory setting is only for downloaded content. Chrome treats files saved on the page differently. To change the default folder for a printout of the page, simply set the savefile.default_directory value instead.

So the full example to print to pdf for a custom location:

import json
from selenium import webdriver

appState = {
    "recentDestinations": [
        {
            "id": "Save as PDF",
            "origin": "local",
            "account": ""
        }
    ],
    "selectedDestinationId": "Save as PDF",
    "version": 2
}

profile = {'printing.print_preview_sticky_settings.appState': json.dumps(appState),
           'savefile.default_directory': 'path/to/dir/'}

chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
chrome_options.add_experimental_option('prefs', profile)
chrome_options.add_argument('--kiosk-printing')

driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=chrome_options)
driver.get(url)
driver.execute_script('window.print();')