Unfortunately, since in IE 8 there is no option to disable download dialog. Small part of this of this functionality has been shown in this article, but it has much more capabilities than just downloading files. Back Up. Blog Talk4Devs j-labs. Quality Assurance Front-end. Introduction Some time ago I developed Selenium tests for feature, where one of the important parts was exporting reports to file from web browser, then comparing theirs content with reference files.
The major problems were: how to change browser download path from the script? FirefoxProfile fp. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. Post comment. Skip to content. Facebook page opens in new window Facebook page opens in new window Twitter page opens in new window YouTube page opens in new window.
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I am working with a selenium script where I am trying to download a Excel file and give it a specific name. This is my code:. Here is another simple solution, where you can wait until the download completed and then get the downloaded file name from chrome downloads. You cannot specify name of download file through selenium. However, you can download the file, find the latest file in the downloaded folder, and rename as you want.
Hope this snippet is not that confusing. It took me a while to create this and is really useful, because there has not been a clear answer to this problem, with just this library. Using the max [] function could lead to a race condition, leaving you with empty or corrupted file I know it from experience.
You want to check if the file is completely downloaded in the first place. This is due to the fact that selenium don't wait for the file download to complete, so when you check for the last created file, an incomplete file will show up on your generated list and it will try to move that file.
And even then, you are better off waiting a little bit for the file to be free from Firefox. I was asked if 1 second was enough time and mostly it is, but in case you need to wait more than that you could change the above code to this:. I've come up with a different solution. So that, that file is going to be the only file in that directory. You can fiddle with the sleep time and add a TimeoutException as well, as you see fit. Here is the code sample I used to download pdf with a specific file name.
First you need to configure chrome webdriver with required options. Then after clicking the button to open pdf popup window , call a function to wait for download to finish and rename the downloaded file. I am using the following function. Using dmb 's trick. Ive just made one correction: after. Otherwise, the line below will try to rename a. Here is a browser-agnostic solution that waits for the download to finish then returns the file name.
It only takes a minute to sign up. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. It downloads the file, but I am not able to check if it was downloaded. It has only count in name, so I can check if it contains count. The idea is to clean up the download directory before the test and use glob. The response code is not possible. But you can solve your problem using count pattern.
The idea is to skip files in the target folder which you know are not your downloaded file before the test. Keep all its names in a list.
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