[webdriver] how to deal with downloading in Chrome

[shen xieyin]

Hi,

I just started to use Chrome to automate some case, and when dealing with downloading, we used to specify the downloading destination in the Option/Under the Hood/Downloading configuration, but when the webdriver launch Chrome, seems every time the downloading destination is restored to the default value in each session. Do you know if Chrome has the same setting like FF profile session that we can always specify this value, or we have other way?

Thanks,

-Shen

[Krishnan Mahadevan]

You can perhaps think of creating a chrome profile [ refer :  http://www.labnol.org/software/create-family-profiles-in-google-chrome/4394/ ]

and then spawn chrome browser with that profile directory http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/ChromeDriver#Starting_Chromium_with_Specific_Flags

and try with that .

Thanks & Regards
Krishnan Mahadevan

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[shen xieyin]

Thanks now I can launch chrome with creating a specified profile and use capability to link it. But I still found one problem is after create a custom profile and I manually use chrome.exe to launch it and then change some setting in the options (like downloads location, etc), but if I launch it with chrome driver, I found those setting is not saved. Seems it's like using a new session or all the options setting will be cleared at that time? any idea?

2012/2/17 Krishnan Mahadevan <krishnan.ma...@gmail.com>

[Krishnan Mahadevan]

In the case of FirefoxDriver I know that a duplicate copy of the profile is made prior to it being used. Would the same hold good in the case of ChromeDriver too?

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[shen xieyin]

seems different. I also tried to find a chrome cmd to set the file download location but cannot find more resource. Any help for me ?

[Mark Collin]

Here’s a file downloader implementation in Java that is cross browser compliant:

 

File Downloader

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[shen xieyin]

Hi  Krishnan, I did not the related flag to control the file download location, do you know what's it?

Thanks,

-Shen

[Mark Collin]

I would suggest a read of this:



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



Maybe you don't even need to download some files?

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[granite....@gmail.com]

Hi Mark,

I have tried to use this class FileDownloader, but found that it requires a href of the link. But here in my case the file download start on clicking a button which does not conatin any 'href' in the html page.

Here is my html page content:

<form style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px;" method="post" action=".">

<fieldset>

<input class="action button download" type="submit" value="Download" name="download">

<input type="hidden" value="f77YIEmFWL8RXXes3pN57uw9IjPU1HRZ" name="csrfmiddlewaretoken">

</fieldset>

</form>

Please provide some solution.

Regards

Shivani