I'm working a program that will utilize Selenium/Webdriver to open a webpage, enter some data, and open a new page which is a PDF. Ultimately I would like to download that PDF into a folder. I know it is possible to download a PDF into a folder if you have the URL in your script, but I'm struggling to find a way to download it if it is opened within the program.
A) Is there a way to download a PDF that is opened explicitly in Chrome using a script?
B) Is there a way to extract the URL from an opened webpage that then be fed back into the program to download from?
While I was doing a selenium project, I faced a similar issue.
I would click on a link that was referring to a PDF file but instead of downloading, the selenium chromedriver would just open it in a new tab.
What solved my problem was that right after I started new chromedriver session, I manually disabled this feature:
In your Chrome settings, go to Privacy and Securtiy
Select Site Settings
Scroll down and click on Additional preferences
Find a section named 'PDF documents'
Turn on the option that says "Download PDF files instead of automatically opening them in Chrome"
Now, any PDF link you click on will download the file instead of opening them in a new tab. Note that you need to do this every time you start a new chromedriver. Changing this setting in your main Chrome application won't help.
Related
I am trying to download a document without saving to memory and then upload to s3. my issue is that the document i want to download doesn't have its own url when you click on it, in the webpage. it comes up as a pop-up and wants you to actually click download.
can i click download and upload it directly to s3 without downloading to another local folder?
i attempted to use request code but need a url to do this
I have some urls, which include xml code, but are not named .xml which I want to open with chrome driver + selenium. Everytime I try Chrome downloads the files.
A download is fine, but I somehow need to name the downloads in a specific way.
The other option would be to prevent the download and than save later or work with the files somehow before I save them somewhere.
How can I name or even better prevent the download and get just the content of any URL called
I use python
What is an easy(simple/clean) way to add few steps to interact with windows based elements within python selenium script?
eg:
Click a download button via selenium driver, change the file name and location and click save button on windows dialog.
Note:
Downloads button is just an example. I pretty much want to know a common way to handle any kind of items.
I do not want a way where they recommend a way to configure browser such that downloads happen automatically at a specific location on our system.
Way to execute my scenario:
Keep this setting turned ON in chrome.
Ask where to save each file before downloading.
Website to try - https://www.seleniumhq.org/download/.
Try downloading anything.
There is a project called Winium, remote driver implementation of Selenium for automating desktop applications. This could help you with this job.
You can spy ui using Inspect.
Find the samples at https://github.com/2gis/Winium.Desktop/wiki/Magic-Samples
Try to use AUTO It, it will be useful in Interacting with windows based applications in selenium.
Check out here - https://www.guru99.com/use-autoit-selenium.html
Hope This Helps You.
I want to download the HAR file containing all the resources information that the browser downloads for a particular site. Currently, I am opening a webpage on Chrome through Python Script. Now, I want my script to automatically download HAR file after Complete Webpage is loaded.
I have already searched through many sources, but didn't find anything useful.
Any help will be appreciated.
I am learning python, I am building a small tool to download music files through python. I have two questions.
The following webpage has three download links. http://mp3monkey.net/audiod/147455106/186823954/Zeds_Dead_-Demons_.mp3
If I click on the second one (green), an mp3 file gets downloaded on my computer.
However, that download link points to the following link. http://mp3monkey.net/audio/147455106/186823954/Zeds_Dead_-Demons_.mp3?dl=2
If I try to open that link on a separate tab, it does not work, the webpage says "Hotlink Protection. Visit our Website Directly to Download the Song".
What is happening? Why clicking directly on the download button downloads the file while open the same link on a new tab is unable to download it?
I was reading the following post
How do I download a file over HTTP using Python?
This method does not work on the above link. Any idea why?
import urllib
urllib.urlretrieve("second link", "test.mp3")
This downloads a corrupt file of size 11kb.