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Aditya Bhatia
Aditya Bhatia

Reputation: 31

Download a zip file using Selenium WebDriver in Java - Download Popup is coming always

Using the following code I am downloading a file from a website , I am using Firefox 32.0.3 with Selenium jar with version- 2.43.

    FirefoxProfile  firefoxProfile = new FirefoxProfile();
    firefoxProfile.setPreference("browser.download.folderList",2);
    firefoxProfile.setPreference("browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting",false);
    firefoxProfile.setPreference("browser.helperApps.alwaysAsk.force", false);
    firefoxProfile.setPreference("browser.download.dir","C:\\RDM_Files");
    firefoxProfile.setPreference("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk","application/zip;application/octet-stream;application/x-zip;application/x-zip-compressed");
    firefoxProfile.setPreference("plugin.disable_full_page_plugin_for_types", "application/zip");

    WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(firefoxProfile);

I checked the MIME type of my file being downloaded is application/zip. Every time I try download the file a I get a window asking to either open the file or save it.

I searched Stackoverflow.com & found post related to handle a .pdf file but not a zip file. Please help

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4291

Answers (2)

Yang
Yang

Reputation: 51

Disable popping up the System non-webpage Download/Save Dialog.

FirefoxProfile prof = new FirefoxProfile();

ffprofile.setPreference("browser.download.panel.shown", false);
ffprofile.setPreference("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk","application/zip");

//ffprofile.setPreference("browser.download.folderList", 1);  // Default to /home/user/Downloads in Linux.
ffprofile.setPreference("browser.download.folderList", 2); 
ffprofile.setPreference("browser.download.dir", "/tmp");

Upvotes: 0

Deepak gupta
Deepak gupta

Reputation: 291

I think you are looking for something like this

//common to all the cases
FirefoxProfile prof = new FirefoxProfile();

//Case:1 - Use this case to set download this code to your browser's default location
//prof.setPreference("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk", "application/zip");

//Case:2 - Download file to Desktop
//prof.setPreference("browser.download.folderList", 0);
//prof.setPreference("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk", "application/zip");

//Case:3 - Download to custom folder path. Replace d:\\selenium with your Download Location 
prof.setPreference("browser.download.dir","D:\\selenium\\");
prof.setPreference("browser.download.folderList", 2);
prof.setPreference("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk", "application/zip");

//This will work for all cases mentioned above
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(prof);
driver.get("http://docs.seleniumhq.org/download/");
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//tr[1]/td[4]/a[text()='Download']")).click();

Upvotes: 3

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