unable to click on Save button while downloading the Excel file using Webdriver in Java

[Umamaheshwar Thota]

Hi All,

I am unable to click on Save button while downloading the Excel file using Webdriver in Java as in attached screen shot. I have searched the forum and found the answers but unable to get the results. I am using IE9 browser and my client uses only IE browsers.

Can anyone please help me to download the Excel file using Web driver in Java. In the screenshot i have removed the actual URL.

This requirement in IE browser.

Help will be appreciated.

Thanks in Advance,
Mahesh

[Chris Merrill]

That button is not part of the page, so no, you can't click on it.

Even if you could, what would you do next? The file download is already in
progress at this point, so you can continue testing the next step in your web
application -- it doesn't matter if you click on the button or not.

For further information on this topic, try googling a bit - this topic (saving
a file download with Selenium / WebDriver) has been discussed at length on several
occasions.

Chris

On 12/3/2013 5:06 AM, Umamaheshwar Thota wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am unable to click on Save button while downloading the Excel file using Webdriver in Java as in
> attached screen shot. I have searched the forum and found the answers but unable to get the results.
> I am using IE9 browser and my client uses only IE browsers.
>

> enter image description here
>
> Can anyone please help me to download the Excel file using Web driver in Java. In the screenshot i
> have removed the actual URL.
>
> This requirement in IE browser.
>
> Help will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks in Advance,
> Mahesh
>

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[Andreas Tolfsen]

thotam...@gmail.com writes:

> Hi All,

Hi!

> I am unable to click on Save button while downloading the Excel file
> using Webdriver in Java as in attached screen shot. I have searched
> the forum and found the answers but unable to get the results. I am
> using IE9 browser and my client uses only IE browsers.

It's not possible to interact with the browser's chrome using
WebDriver. You should also reconsider whether using Selenium to
download files is the right option for you; it's not what Selenium's
designed for.

I don't know IE very well, but there might be a setting that enables
automatic downloads without confirmation.

[Ajay Talpur]

try this code

For IE to save a file click ALT+S to open ALT+O

so

    Robot robot=new Robot();
    robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_ALT);
    robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_S);
    robot.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_ALT);
    robot.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_S);
Thread.sleep(3000);

and your file will be downloaded

-Ajay

[Umamaheshwar Thota]

Thanks for the reply. i have tried using the below code. but I am not able to download the excel fiel.

regards,
Mahesh

[darrell]

Ajay's code assumes a LOT of things. So it is not surprising that it does not work. If downloading a file was an easy thing and had a universal solution, it would be part of WebDriver. Try searching this group for "file downloading" and see what you find. This question has been answered many times. The general idea is that selecting the file and getting past "Are you sure?" type prompts is outside of WebDriver. So once these come up you need to use a Desktop automation like AutoIt or Java's Robot. The other option is to avoid the OS level dialogs/prompts with tricks to get around them. Again, search the group for "file downloading".

Darrell