Download a file to a specific path using Selenium WebDriver?

You would have to examine the javascript on the website and understand how it works before you could override it to do something like that, but even then, browser security will always pop a dialog asking you to confirm the download. That leaves you with two options (as far as I can see).

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I need to download a file to a given location on a non-local machine. This is the normal flow of the web browser for which I would do this: Go to website Click button to download file (it is a form that generates the file, it is not a download link) The website prompts an alert window "Do you want to download this file? ", etc. I want to be able to bypass the file and do something like: >>> path_to_download_path = PATH >>> button = driver.

Find_element_by_css("...") >>> button.click() --> And the file is automatically downloaded to my PATH (or wherever I choose) Or is there an easier way that click, where I can automatically download the content of the file? How would I do this? Python selenium webdriver link|improve this question edited Jan 9 at 2:29 asked Jan 9 at 2:24David5421,481316 97% accept rate.

I think you can only set the download path if there is an input field or something like that where you can set the path - webdriver can only interact with elements that the user can see on a website – chaosr Jan 9 at 6:32 Might help to know what browser you were driving as they tend to handle file downloads differently – Chuck van der Linden Jan 18 at 0:07.

You would have to examine the javascript on the website and understand how it works before you could override it to do something like that, but even then, browser security will always pop a dialog asking you to confirm the download. That leaves you with two options (as far as I can see): Confirm the alert dialog Determine the location of the file on the remote server, and use a GET to download the file I can't really help with the details on either, since I don't know python, but hopefully that helps...

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