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CodingTea
CodingTea

Reputation: 15

Profile preferences doesn't apply in Selenium Python

Here is my code. I try to download file using selenium so I want to disable pop up save window but all I've tried didn't work for me. Save window keep showing up. I use Mozilla Firefox and Windows 10.

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys 

profile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
profile.set_preference("browser.download.folderList", 2)
profile.set_preference("browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting", False)
profile.set_preference("browser.download.dir", "./")
profile.set_preference("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk", "attachment/csv")
binary = '/Users/User/Documents/Geckodriver/geckodriver.exe'
browser = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path = binary, firefox_profile = profile)

If it is important I use Firefox as my regular browser maybe it can somehow affect geckodriver.

I add update line before binary line and it didn't help me.

profile.update_preferences()

I found all these preferences in about:config and they all actually have been applied: example

Actually I try to download mp3 file if this matters

Upvotes: 0

Views: 285

Answers (1)

undetected Selenium
undetected Selenium

Reputation: 193298

Once you set all the preferences through profile.set_preference() lines, finally you need to update the preferences using the line:

profile.update_preferences()

So effectively, your code block will be:

profile.set_preference("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk", "attachment/csv")
profile.update_preferences()
binary = '/Users/User/Documents/Geckodriver/geckodriver.exe'
browser = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path = binary, firefox_profile = profile)

Upvotes: 0

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