Can Selenium intercept the automatic downloads from a web browser to a known generic folder?

[Priya P]

Can Selenium intercept the automatic downloads from a web browser to a known generic folder?

[krishnan.ma...@gmail.com]

In browsers such as firefox I believe you can do it using a custom firefox profile. But this not true for all browsers.

You might want to take a look at this blog post by Mark on this.

http://ardesco.lazerycode.com/index.php/2012/07/how-to-download-files-with-selenium-and-why-you-shouldnt/

-Krishnan Mahadevan

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[Priya P]

Thanks for the link, however I tried something more simple, but it doesn't work on a  MAC

what is the replacement for the command profile browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk" on a MAC?

Following is my code:

                String path="/Users/"; 
                profile.setPreference("browser.download.folderList", 2);
                profile.setPreference("browser.download.dir", path);
                profile.setPreference("browser.download.manager.alertOnEXEOpen", false);
                profile.setPreference("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk","image/jpg, text/csv,text/xml,application/xml,application/vnd.ms-excel,application/x-excel,application/x-msexcel,application/excel,application/pdf");      
                
              
                WebDriver profileDriver = new FirefoxDriver(profile);
                profileDriver.get( "https://sampleqa.com");
                profileDriver.findElement(By.id("Username")).sendKeys("user");
                profileDriver.findElement(By.id("Password")).sendKeys("1234");
                profileDriver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@type='submit']")).click();
                profileDriver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@href='/admin/Dashboard/Information']")).click(); //click Dashboard tab

[Krishnan Mahadevan]

Priya,

What you are looking for now, is more of a  Firefox browser question than a Selenium query !

http://stackoverflow.com/a/15954999 should help you get started.

Thanks & Regards

Krishnan Mahadevan

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[Mark Collin]

Hmm, so you tried something more simple, but it didn’t work...

You may want to re-evaluate your solution if cross browser/platform compatibility is important to you. :)  

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[Priya P]

hey Mark,

I tried to get user's directory and pointed the downloads to that directory to get it to work :)

Regards
Priya

[Mark Collin]

So what are you doing with the files you download, are you checking them?

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[Priya P]

Yes, my scenario is, I make some changes on our internal server, and export the Spreadsheet and verify that the changes are captured in the spreadsheet... The reason it was important for me to get a known file path is, when my automation code is executed on another team members pc, my code gets their user directory , places the downloaded file there. Then I write a read from excel from that path to verify my changes in the spreadsheet

[Mark Collin]

So I would argue that you don’t need to use Selenium to do this downloading and checking. You should write a Java class to do it for you (as I suggested on my blog post).

> On 27 May 2015, at 12:41, Priya P <priyasi...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Yes, my scenario is, I make some changes on our internal server, and export the Spreadsheet and verify that the changes are captured in the spreadsheet... The reason it was important for me to get a known file path is, when my automation code is executed on another team members pc, my code gets their user directory , places the downloaded file there. Then I write a read from excel from that path to verify my changes in the spreadsheet
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