However, you can download the file, find the latest file in the downloaded folder, and rename as you want. Hope this snippet is not that confusing. It took me a while to create this and is really useful, because there has not been a clear answer to this problem, with just this library.
Using the max [] function could lead to a race condition, leaving you with empty or corrupted file I know it from experience. You want to check if the file is completely downloaded in the first place. This is due to the fact that selenium don't wait for the file download to complete, so when you check for the last created file, an incomplete file will show up on your generated list and it will try to move that file. And even then, you are better off waiting a little bit for the file to be free from Firefox.
I was asked if 1 second was enough time and mostly it is, but in case you need to wait more than that you could change the above code to this:. I've come up with a different solution. So that, that file is going to be the only file in that directory. You can fiddle with the sleep time and add a TimeoutException as well, as you see fit.
Here is the code sample I used to download pdf with a specific file name. First you need to configure chrome webdriver with required options. Then after clicking the button to open pdf popup window , call a function to wait for download to finish and rename the downloaded file.
I am using the following function. Using dmb 's trick. Ive just made one correction: after. Otherwise, the line below will try to rename a. Here is a browser-agnostic solution that waits for the download to finish then returns the file name. Caveat: this will not work if you have more than one thread or process downloading files to the same directory at the same time.
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Asked 5 years, 11 months ago. Active 3 months ago. Viewed 59k times. This is my code: Is there anyway that I can give the file being downloaded a specific name? Improve this question. Why not rename it after the download Using the Shutil module? Since the filname always have a random name, I want to name it when I am downloading it. So it will be easier to locate it later. And if the file is behind auth, you will need to pull the session cookie from Selenium's cookie store and pass it into the HTTP library when performing the request.
That, or you can configure the browser you're using to auto-download files to a specific location and then perform checks against the file on disk. I made my own version of the downloader, by using an Ajax request and returning the bytes. Has the advantage that it uses the browser directly, so authentication and cookies do not need to be dealt with.
It has the disadvantage that you're restricted by same-origin rule, it might need a lot of memory and maybe also fail in older browsers. How to auto save files using custom Firefox profile? This blog post describes a straight forward way of invoking another library to download the file so not through the browser whilst maintaining selenium's session with the site - so it works on password-protected files, etc.
There are many ways to download file in Selenium, one of the easiest way in Firefox using Firefox Profile. First add preferences in profiles and specify the MIME type of file and then you can open Firefox with above preferences.
I found below article interesting which cover above scenario: How to Download files in Selenium Webdriver. First, think about - do you really need to download an image? Or You just need to make sure that it exists and it is able to be downloaded? Here you may find full trusted description how to check that image is available and exists, just by following by image's URL.
Main steps are: extract authorization cookies if user session required use them for building new HTTP request send such request with image's URL to check status code if status code is - image exists.
Note, that it is not apache-like cookies, you can not use them strictly with apache http client. But you could build one apache-like based on it. An approach that I took I took recently to this was to capture to response via fiddler. In my case I am making a call directly to the export handler in our application. I have wrapped the selenium bits and intercepted the traffic with fiddler core.
I actually just cared about the data in the file not that the browser correctly interpreted the request. You could also accomplish this using the a click action as well. I am using C and WebDriver for my implementation. If you are using a different language I think there are some other tools as well. I my opinion the advantage of this is that I can strip away having to try to interact with the file download mechanisms of any of the browsers.
If I want to create the file later all of the information the browser would have received is in the response header. A simple but somewhat flimsy solution depending on whether you're expecting a consistent screen size in your target environment ; is to use the java. Robot class as below.. You could also try the ChromeDriver for selenium; as I've noticed chrome doesn't have an OS dialogue for download confirmation. When you are using selenium web driver with for Firefox profile , the best way to deal with the modal window is by changing the Firefox profile settings to automatically downloading the file to the desired location.
The way we have accomplished this is sending keys to the browser window. Agreed its not the best solution but its quick and works. We did this on IE9 with the selenium web driver for IE and the scenario we wanted to automate was a submit button click that would end up downloading a file on the browser.
The way we accomplished this was clicking submit on a thread because submit blocks till the action is taken to either progress or cancel the download on the download bar. Once on the save button send the Down arrow key which opens up the menu on the save button and then a couple of down arrow keys more followed by Enter opens up the save as dialog.
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Asked 9 years, 11 months ago. Active 8 months ago. Viewed k times. Improve this question. Tech Expert Wizard 2 2 bronze badges. Aaron Aaron 2, 6 6 gold badges 24 24 silver badges 26 26 bronze badges. Maybe it's better to see [this][1]. Page — Max Barrass. One potential solution is to obtain the URL for the file via Selenium, create a non-Selenium connection, copy Selenium's cookies to the connection if necessary , and download the file.
Since this method utilizes non-Selenium APIs to download the file, it will work with or without any browser. For more info, see my answer here: stackoverflow. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. This is not the browser HTML window but a system window controlled by the OS, which can not be handled or accessed by the Python Selenium since Selenium is a web browser automation tool.
The only thing that we can be able to do is set the default download files location for the browser and allow it to automatically download the files. But we have a problem here; Python Selenium WebDriver will launch Firefox in default profile Since no profile is specified explicitly.
So in this case, we need to configure download location every time which is not expected in automation environment. Instead of configuring it manually every time, we can instruct Selenium to set up Firefox Profile which ensures download files location is configured always. Have a look at below code. Here we are creating Firefox options object and set our preference. This setting allows the user to specify whether the Download Manager window should be displayed or not when file downloading starts.
A comma-separated list of MIME types to save to disk without asking what to use to open the file.
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