Downloading a file using developer tools

The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. How to download a file using Selenium's WebDriver? Ask Question. Asked 9 years, 11 months ago. Active 8 months ago. Viewed k times. Improve this question. Tech Expert Wizard 2 2 bronze badges. Aaron Aaron 2, 6 6 gold badges 24 24 silver badges 26 26 bronze badges. Maybe it's better to see [this][1].

Page — Max Barrass. One potential solution is to obtain the URL for the file via Selenium, create a non-Selenium connection, copy Selenium's cookies to the connection if necessary , and download the file. Since this method utilizes non-Selenium APIs to download the file, it will work with or without any browser. For more info, see my answer here: stackoverflow.

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Melena Melena 1 1 gold badge 7 7 silver badges 9 9 bronze badges. I might try to do it with the Python requests module. Always quote the most relevant part of an important link, in case the target site is unreachable or goes permanently offline.

Mark Mayo 's answer worked for me sqa. Bence Kaulics 1, 9 9 silver badges 21 21 bronze badges. Mark Mayo Mark Mayo 1, 11 11 silver badges 40 40 bronze badges. Worked like a charm, but I used my user profile.

Should this answer still be working with Firefox 58? I can't manage to make it work. We have been using this for a long time with Firefox pre-version 47 and it worked great. Now we've upgraded to 58 and it no longer works. Show 3 more comments.

Beta; import com. EbselenCore; import com. FileHandler; import org. CookiePolicy; import org. HttpClient; import org. GetMethod; import java.

URL; import java. Set; import org. WebDriver; import org. WebElement; import org. Logger; import org. Ardesco Ardesco 1, 10 10 silver badges 13 13 bronze badges. It should work hc. I want to download a file to check if it is containing the right data.

This won't work with HttpOnly cookies would it? Kind of a weird idea to respond to a question with: "you probably don't need to do this". Sometimes we need to do things.

Be it because they make sense or because the boss said so. Making my boss ooo and ahh pays the bills. So, there's a reason. Imagine being stuck and someone tells you your whole premise is a waste of time As for the solution, I also disagree that this is a main idea.

Most files out there are dynamically generated or dynamically referenced, you don't have a "storage. It's usually a java script action or some magic I am not a browser programmer — DraxDomax. Show 1 more comment. I've outlined each of these approaches in detail with working Ruby code here: Browser specific configuration Working in tandem with an HTTP library for secure files. Mark Mayo 1, 11 11 silver badges 40 40 bronze badges.

Dave Haeffner Dave Haeffner 51 1 1 silver badge 1 1 bronze badge. In general, this is nice, as long the page does not require a login. As soon the user has to log in, this solution will break. Still sometimes is very useful: import org. JavascriptExecutor; import org.

WebDriver; import java. ByteArrayInputStream; import java. IOException; import java. InputStream; import java. ArrayList; import java.

Amazing this works great, thank you very much for this up-to-date answer! I modified this a little by setting the responsetype to "text" and just doing the callback without the array stuff. It works beautifully. I needed it for csv file. How about this approach: How to auto save files using custom Firefox profile? Cross platform and Python. This is the best approach. Link only answers are discouraged. Please add the solution part from the link to your answer.

Martin Eden Martin Eden 1 1 bronze badge. I have realised this is similar to Ardesco's answer. However, I think the solution in the blog post is simpler. Also, it is for. NET rather than Java, so it may be useful to people targeting that platform. Windows only? Neeraj07 Neeraj07 21 1 1 bronze badge. Main steps are: extract authorization cookies if user session required use them for building new HTTP request send such request with image's URL to check status code if status code is - image exists To get webDriver-like cookies just use something like that: webDriver.

Gadget Gadget 1 1 bronze badge. Thanks--very cool. My only issue is that then anybody who gets to the VBA of your file has your password. Any tips for getting around that or encrypting it in some way? Thanks again! No problem : You are correct, it's not good practice to store passwords in your code.

In excel you can encrypt files so that users can't se your code. I have never tried this but try this link: vbaexpress. Seems unnecessary… — Lucas Werkmeister.

Can we directly open the oStream in excel using workbook. Thanks for this. Show 1 more comment. Cole Busby Cole Busby 6 6 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. Don't know if that was obvious to other people or not.

DRC i know your comment is a year old at this point, but I wrote this almost 3 years prior. We had imported some other things in our scripts at the time, but im happy you got some help! A modified version of above to make it more dynamic. AndrewK AndrewK 61 3 3 bronze badges. When answering an old question, your answer would be much more useful to other StackOverflow users if you included some context to explain how your answer helps, particularly for a question that already has an accepted answer.

See: How do I write a good answer. A modified version of above solution to make it more dynamic. FolderExists CreateObject "Scripting. Geoff Griswald Geoff Griswald 7 7 silver badges 16 16 bronze badges. The Overflow Blog. Podcast what if you could invest in your favorite developer? Who owns this outage?

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