How to read a file downloaded by selenium webdriver in python

Question

I am using selenium with webdriver in python to download a csv file from a site . The file gets downloaded into the download directory specified. Here is an overview of my c

Answer 1

You can get the last downloaded file from that location and then read the file:

path = /path to folder
list = os.listdir(path)
time_sorted_list = sorted(list, key=os.path.getmtime)
file_name = time_sorted_list[len(time_sorted_list)-1]

and then u can read from this file. Hoping not multiple files are getting there by parallel processes.

EDIT: Just saw comment that multiple instances are up for downloading, so other way around you can use urllib and download the file by using its url as:

import urllib
urllib.urlretrieve( "http://www.example.com/yourfile.ext", "your-file-name.ext") // you can provide unique-id to your file name