Download MP4 file instead of playing it using ChromeDriver?

Question

I\'m using Chrome Web Driver 2.10 chromedriver_win32.zip with Selenium WebDriver 2.31.2.

With verbose logging enabled it seems the DesiredCapabilities

Answer 1

I got this working by below code:

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "/path/to/chromedriver");
String downloadFilepath = "/path/to/download";
HashMap<String, Object> chromePrefs = new HashMap<String, Object>();
chromePrefs.put("profile.default_content_settings.popups", 0);
chromePrefs.put("download.default_directory", downloadFilepath);
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
HashMap<String, Object> chromeOptionsMap = new HashMap<String, Object>();
options.setExperimentalOptions("prefs", chromePrefs);
options.addArguments("--test-type");
DesiredCapabilities cap = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
cap.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, chromeOptionsMap);
cap.setCapability(CapabilityType.ACCEPT_SSL_CERTS, true);
cap.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, options);
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(cap);

Answer 2

This worked greatly for me:

DesiredCapabilities cap = DesiredCapabilities.firefox();

FirefoxProfile fprofile= new FirefoxProfile();
fprofile.setPreference("browser.download.folderList",2);  //0-desktop,1-file download folder,2-specified location
fprofile.setPreference("browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting", false); //prevent download file window
fprofile.setPreference("browser.download.dir","E:\\Downloadfilebyprogram");
fprofile.setPreference("browser.download.manager.focusWhenStarting", false);
//fprofile.setPreference("browser.helperApps.alwaysAsk.force", false);
//fprofile.setPreference("browser.download.manager.closeWhenDone", true);
//fprofile.setPreference("browser.download.manager.useWindow", false);
//fprofile.setPreference("services.sync.prefs.sync.browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting", false);
//fprofile.setPreference("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.openFile,","application/vnd.ms-excel");
fprofile.setPreference("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk","application/vnd.ms-excel");
fprofile.setPreference("browser.download.manager.alertOnExeOpen", false); //prevent from opening a file

cap.setCapability(FirefoxDriver.PROFILE, fprofile);
WebDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver(cap);

Answer 3

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
Map<String, Object> prefs = new HashMap<String, Object>();
prefs.put("profile.default_content_settings.popups", 0);
prefs.put("download.default_directory", getClass().getResource("/data/input").toString().replace("%20", " ").replace("file:","").replaceFirst("/", ""));
options.setExperimentalOption("prefs", prefs);

options.addArguments("--test-type");
capabilities.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, options);