How do I automatically download files from a pop up dialog using selenium-python

Question

I am trying to automatically download files from a pop up dialog using selenium-python.

The firefox popups look like this

Answer 1

Most browsers (in mine case Firefox) select the OK button by default. So I managed to solve this by using the following code. It basically presses enter for you and the file is downloaded.

Robot robot = new Robot();

// A short pause, just to be sure that OK is selected
Thread.sleep(3000);

robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_ENTER);

Answer 2

You have two options :

1) Create a custom firefox profile with settings where the download location is pre-decided and firefox does not ask for confirmation to download. Just googled and found a blog that explains how to do it

2) Use sikuli to automate clicks on the download dialog box. Blog explaining- How to use Sikuli

P.S. - Not read the blogs, but I am sure they will give u a clue.

Answer 3

I spent some time today trying to figure this out (again... had the solution at home but couldn't get to it...) and during that I found this... None of the solutions helped me so I thought I'd offer up what I did to solve this problem.

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.firefox_profile import FirefoxProfile

dl_path = "/tmp/"
profile = FirefoxProfile()
profile.set_preference("browser.download.folderList", 2)
profile.set_preference("browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting", false)
profile.set_preference("browser.download.dir", dl_path)
profile.set_preference("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk",
                          "text/plain,text/x-csv,text/csv,application/vnd.ms-excel,application/csv,application/x-csv,text/csv,text/comma-separated-values,text/x-comma-separated-values,text/tab-separated-values,application/pdf")

Answer 4

With my using and test in my Selenium UI automation test, configuring the Firefox Profile is more stable than Robot Class. E.g. Disable popping up the System non-webpage Download/Save Dialog.

FirefoxProfile prof = new FirefoxProfile();

ffprofile.setPreference("browser.download.panel.shown", false);
ffprofile.setPreference("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk","application/zip");

//ffprofile.setPreference("browser.download.folderList", 1);  // Default to /home/user/Downloads in Linux.
ffprofile.setPreference("browser.download.folderList", 2); 
ffprofile.setPreference("browser.download.dir", "/tmp");

Answer 5

The above solutions are great. But unfortunately my target file to download is a rare file type not in iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml. My solution is:

1. Click on the download link in Firefox. Choose "Save File" and "Do this automatically for files like this from now on". This will create a a new "content type" in the Firefox profile when handling download.

2. Locate and copy your Firefox profile (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profiles). Named the profile folder as "prepared_firefox_profile".

3. Read in the custom profile:

profile = FirefoxProfile("dir/to/your/firefox/profile/prepared_firefox_profile")
profile.set_preference("browser.download.dir", "/your/desired/download/folder")  
driver = selenium.webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=profile)

Answer 6

public class DemoFileDownload{

FirefoxProfile prof = new FirefoxProfile(); prof.setpreference("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.SaveToDisk", "mimetype_of_file"); prof.setpreference("browser.download.folderlist",int_value); prof.setpreference("browser.download.dir,"folder_path"); // if the above int_value is 2 //int_value can be of below values: // 1 - downloads folder // 0 - desktop // 2 - custom folder } get the mime type from below website: www.sitepoint.com/mimetypes-complete-list/

for chrome browser, use chromeoptions instead of firefoxprofile