How do i set default upload path with selinium and chrome. eg going to a webpage, and upload. this opens a fileexploere, but it always opens c:\users[me]
I want to be able to set anoter default path.
i have seen this to set download path
driver.SetPreference "download.default_directory", "c:\temp"
and i tried to alter it
driver.SetPreference "upload.default_directory", "c:\temp"
but it dosnt work.
Chrome Version 102.0.5005.115 - win10
Found it
from this helpfull link
Where can I find a list of all available ChromeOption arguments?
theres a link to "List of preferences:"
in here i found
selectfile.last_directory
So i set
driver.SetPreference "selectfile.last_directory", "c:\temp" or what you want
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I'm making a webscraping program, and in the same page I need to download multiple files.
But when I try to download the second file it pops up a message to allow multiple downloads.
I have already tried something like:
driver.SetPreference "download.default_directory", "C:\PDF_folder\"
driver.SetPreference "download.directory_upgrade", True
driver.SetPreference "download.prompt_for_download", False
But the allow window still appears. How can I solve that?
To allow to download multiple files you need to add the following preference:
driver.SetPreference "profile.default_content_setting_values.automatic_downloads": 1
I want to download file in my current working directory using selenium automation. But I am getting 'Path too long' error. The code I have written so far is:
os.chdir(os.path.dirname(__file__))
current_directory = os.getcwd()
windows_cwd = current_directory.replace('\\','\\\\')+'\\\\'
chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
prefs = {'download.default_directory': windows_cwd,
'download.directory_upgrade': True,
'safebrowsing.enabled': False,
'safebrowsing.disable_download_protection': True
}
chrome_options.add_experimental_option('prefs',prefs)
browser = webdriver.Chrome(options=chrome_options)
My current working directory is:
C:\Users\US177\PycharmProjects\Plugin
where the path is too long.
But it successfully downloads to
C:\Users\US177\Desktop
failed-long path
I'm not exactly sure what your question is based on the information provided, but I'm guessing it's along the lines of "Why is this happening?", so I will address that question.
The maximum length of a file name in Windows is 260 characters. The file is able to download to your desktop because the name of the file (when appended to your path) does not exceed this limit. When trying to download to PycharmProjects\Plugin\ folder, the path has become too long.
While setting your download path, try using double backslash (ie. path\\to\\directory).
See this Github issue about programatically downloading from chrome
I read through a ton of answers to this query of mine but couldn't find anything specific. Hence asking here
Here's the scenario, On a webpage, when I click a download button, it downloads a PDF file correctly, On the browser, I have set the Firefox preferences to save the file rather than open in preview.
However, when I run my selenium/Python script, the download keeps opening in the preview, there are other PDF downloads on the page and they work fine. Upon inspecting both the download buttons, the only difference I see is the one that does not download has a relative URL in its href value.
I am also using the following firefox options settings in my script, but with no help. Please guide me in the right direction. Thanks in advance!
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fp = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
fp.set_preference("browser.download.folderList", 2)
fp.set_preference("browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting", False)
fp.set_preference("browser.download.dir", 'Path to Save The file')
fp.set_preference("pdfjs.enabledCache.state", False)
fp.set_preference("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk", "application/pdf")
fp.set_preference("pdfjs.disabled", "true")
# disable Adobe Acrobat PDF preview plugin
fp.set_preference("plugin.scan.plid.all", "false")
fp.set_preference("plugin.scan.Acrobat", "99.0")
self.driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=fp,executable_path="path to my geckodriver")
self.driver.get("url")
I had the same problem - setting to disable pdfjs only worked when clicked manually on about:config page. Turned out that what seems to have solved the issue was (Firefox 60.6.1ESR):
profile.setPreference("pdfjs.disabled", true);
profile.setPreference("pdfjs.enabledCache.state", false); // <= THIS
Using Win7, Office2010, Chrome 58, and Selenium 2.0.9, I'm automating the downloading of a number of files from a few websites (NB, I actually need the files and the sites are not mine - I'm not testing my own site), and I'd like to control where the files end up being downloaded.
I have looked at quite a number of search results and everything I've found has led me to the following versions of code, each Driver.SetPreference variation has been tested independently and none of them work.
Private Sub DownloadDirTest()
Dim Driver As Selenium.ChromeDriver
Set Driver = New Selenium.ChromeDriver
Driver.SetPreference "browser.download.dir", "\\server\share\my\long\path"
Driver.SetPreference "browser.download.dir", "\\\\server\\share\\my\\long\path"
'after mapping Y: to "\\server\share\my\long\path" in Windows Explorer
Driver.SetPreference "browser.default_directory", "Y:\"
Driver.SetPreference "browser.download.dir", "c:\"
Driver.SetPreference "browser.default_directory", "c:\"
Driver.Start "Chrome", "http://google.com"
Driver.Close
End Sub
As can been seen here:
Most of the references I've seen are for Python, Java or Ruby, and they all make reference to something like:
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("user-data-dir=/path/to/your/custom/profile");
There doesn't seem to be any equivalent ChromeOptions available to VBA.
1) Does anyone know the actual property name to correctly set the download directory?
2) I'm not particularly wedded to Chrome, though it seems to be faster than IEDriver (in my initial testing), and I can't get the current Firefox driver to work. If someone has pointers to how to reliably set the DL directory in either of the other browsers (and a link to an updated Firefox driver - I haven't been able to find it via half-hearted searching), I'm open to using those.
The preferences from your example are specific to Firefox. You need to set the ones specific to Chrome to change the download directory:
Dim driver As New ChromeDriver
driver.SetPreference "download.default_directory", "c:\temp"
driver.SetPreference "download.directory_upgrade", True
driver.SetPreference "download.prompt_for_download", False
driver.SetPreference "safebrowsing.enabled", True
driver.SetPreference "plugins.plugins_disabled", Array("Chrome PDF Viewer")
driver.Get "http://google.com"
driver.Quit
How do I set a default download location for Firefox at runtime. Is there any way to prevent the folder selection popup from coming?
I would follow the code found on this blog
Something like:
profile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
profile.set_preference("browser.download.folderList",2)
profile.set_preference("browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting",False)
profile.set_preference("browser.download.dir",getcwd())
profile.set_preference("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk","text/csv")
browser = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=profile)
Hope that helps.