VBA code to wait until file download from IE is complete

Question

I\'m trying to download an excel file from a webpage and so far I was able to open the webpage, navigate and click on save button but I need to access that excel file once i

Answer 1

This code uses a similar technique to what you have, started, but in addition it will wait for the "Open folder" button to appear in the 'Frame Notification Bar', which will indicate the download is finished. Then it looks in the User's Download folder for a 'very recently added' file and moves it to the place you select. The Code has some Debug.Print statements for error messages, which you may want to change/remove.

Hope this works for you....

    Option Explicit

'--Given an IE browser object with the yellow 'Frame Notification Bar' to download file and a File Name to save the downloaded file to,
'--This Sub will use UIAutomation to click the Save button, then wiat for the Open button, then look in the User Downloads folder
'--to get the file just downloaded, then move it to the full file name path given in Filename, then close the 'Frame Notification Bar'
'--DownloadFromIEFrameNotificationBar will return the following codes:
'-- -1 - could not find the Close button in the 'Frame Notification Bar', but file saved OK
'--  0 - succesfully downloaded and save file
'--  1 - could not find the 'Frame Notification Bar'
'--  2 - could not find the Save button in the 'Frame Notification Bar'
'--  3 - could not find the 'Open folder' button in the 'Frame Notification Bar'
'--  4 - could not find Very recent file (Last modified within 3 seconds) in the User Downloads folder

Public Function DownloadFromIEFrameNotificationBar(ByRef oBrowser As InternetExplorer, Filename As String) As Long
    Dim UIAutomation As IUIAutomation
    Dim eBrowser As IUIAutomationElement, eFNB As IUIAutomationElement, e As IUIAutomationElement
    Dim InvokePattern As IUIAutomationInvokePattern
    Dim DLfn As String

    DownloadFromIEFrameNotificationBar = 0

    Set UIAutomation = New CUIAutomation
    Set eBrowser = UIAutomation.ElementFromHandle(ByVal oBrowser.hwnd)

    '--Find 'Frame Notification Bar' element

    Set eFNB = FindFromAllElementsWithClassName(eBrowser, "Frame Notification Bar", 10)

    If eFNB Is Nothing Then
        Debug.Print "'Frame Notification Bar' not found"
        DownloadFromIEFrameNotificationBar = 1
        Exit Function
    End If

    '--Find 'Save' button element

    Set e = FindFromAllElementWithName(eFNB, "Save")
    If e Is Nothing Then
        Debug.Print "'Save' button not found"
        DownloadFromIEFrameNotificationBar = 2
        Exit Function
    End If

    '--'Click' the 'Save'  button

    Sleep 100
    Set InvokePattern = e.GetCurrentPattern(UIA_InvokePatternId)
    InvokePattern.Invoke

    '--Wait for the file to download by waiting for the 'Open Folder' button to appear in the 'Frame Notification Bar'

    Set e = FindFromAllElementWithName(eFNB, "Open folder", 15)
    If e Is Nothing Then
        Debug.Print "'Open Folder' button not found"
        DownloadFromIEFrameNotificationBar = 3
        Exit Function
    End If

    '--Done with download, now look for a file that was very recently (with in 3 seconds) added to the User's Downloads folder and get the file name of it

    DLfn = FindVeryRecentFileInDownloads()

    If DLfn <> "" Then

        '--We got recent downloaded file, now Delete the file we are saving too (if it exists) so the Move file will be successful

        DeleteFile Filename
        MoveFile DLfn, Filename
    Else
        Debug.Print "Very recent file not found!"
        DownloadFromIEFrameNotificationBar = 4
    End If

    '--Close Notification Bar window

    Set e = FindFromAllElementWithName(eFNB, "Close")
    If e Is Nothing Then
        Debug.Print "'Close' button not found"
        DownloadFromIEFrameNotificationBar = -1
        Exit Function
    End If

    '--'Click' the 'Close'  button

    Sleep 100
    Set InvokePattern = e.GetCurrentPattern(UIA_InvokePatternId)
    InvokePattern.Invoke
End Function

Private Function FindFromAllElementWithName(e As IUIAutomationElement, n As String, Optional MaxTime As Long = 5) As IUIAutomationElement
    Dim oUIAutomation As New CUIAutomation
    Dim ea As IUIAutomationElementArray
    Dim i As Long, timeout As Date

    timeout = Now + TimeSerial(0, 0, MaxTime)

    Do
        Set ea = e.FindAll(TreeScope_Subtree, oUIAutomation.CreateTrueCondition)

        For i = 0 To ea.length - 1
            If ea.GetElement(i).CurrentName = n Then
                Set FindFromAllElementWithName = ea.GetElement(i)
                Exit Function
            End If
        Next

        DoEvents

        Sleep 20
    Loop Until Now > timeout

    Set FindFromAllElementWithName = Nothing
End Function

Private Function FindFromAllElementsWithClassName(e As IUIAutomationElement, c As String, Optional MaxTime As Long = 5) As IUIAutomationElement
    Dim oUIAutomation As New CUIAutomation
    Dim ea As IUIAutomationElementArray
    Dim i As Long, timeout As Date

    timeout = Now + TimeSerial(0, 0, MaxTime)

    Do
        Set ea = e.FindAll(TreeScope_Subtree, oUIAutomation.CreateTrueCondition)

        For i = 0 To ea.length - 1
            If ea.GetElement(i).CurrentClassName = c Then
                Set FindFromAllElementsWithClassName = ea.GetElement(i)
                Exit Function
            End If
        Next

        DoEvents

        Sleep 20
    Loop Until Now > timeout

    Set FindFromAllElementsWithClassName = Nothing
End Function

Private Function FindVeryRecentFileInDownloads(Optional MaxSecs As Long = 3) As String
    Dim fso As New FileSystemObject, f As File, First As Boolean, lfd As Date, Folder As String
    Dim WS As Object

    On Error GoTo errReturn

    Set WS = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

    '--Get Current user's Downloads folder path

    Folder = WS.RegRead("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders\{374DE290-123F-4565-9164-39C4925E467B}")
    First = True

    For Each f In fso.GetFolder(Folder).Files
        If First Then
            lfd = f.DateLastModified
            FindVeryRecentFileInDownloads = f.Path
            First = False
        ElseIf f.DateLastModified > lfd Then
            lfd = f.DateLastModified
            FindVeryRecentFileInDownloads = f.Path
        End If
    Next

    If First Then
        FindVeryRecentFileInDownloads = "" '--no files
    ElseIf MaxSecs <> -1 And DateDiff("s", lfd, Now) > MaxSecs Then
        FindVeryRecentFileInDownloads = "" '--no very recent file found
    End If

    Exit Function

errReturn:
    FindVeryRecentFileInDownloads = ""

End Function

Private Sub MoveFile(SourcePath As String, DestinationPath As String)
    Dim fso As New FileSystemObject
    CreateCompletePath Left(DestinationPath, InStrRev(DestinationPath, Application.PathSeparator))
    fso.MoveFile SourcePath, DestinationPath
End Sub

Public Sub CreateCompletePath(sPath As String)
    Dim iStart As Integer
    Dim aDirs As Variant
    Dim sCurDir As String
    Dim i As Integer

    sPath = Trim(sPath)
    If sPath <> "" And Dir(sPath, vbDirectory) = vbNullString Then
        aDirs = Split(sPath, Application.PathSeparator)
        If Left(sPath, 2) = Application.PathSeparator & Application.PathSeparator Then
            iStart = 3
        Else
            iStart = 1
        End If

        sCurDir = Left(sPath, InStr(iStart, sPath, Application.PathSeparator))

        For i = iStart To UBound(aDirs)
            If Trim(aDirs(i)) <> vbNullString Then
                sCurDir = sCurDir & aDirs(i) & Application.PathSeparator
                If Dir(sCurDir, vbDirectory) = vbNullString Then MkDir sCurDir
            End If
        Next i
    End If
End Sub