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Veronica Santana
Veronica Santana

Reputation: 9

Download embedded PDF from Firefox using RSelenium

I am trying to download the embedded pdf from the following page using RSelenium: https://rac.anpad.org.br/index.php/rac/article/view/1479/1672

# Access the web page (this works fine):
library(RSelenium)
driver <- rsDriver(browser = "firefox")
remote_driver <- driver[["client"]]
remote_driver$navigate("https://rac.anpad.org.br/index.php/rac/article/view/1479/1672")

# Download pdf (this is the part not working)
button <- remote_driver$findElement(using = "css selector", "span:nth-child(1)") # this seems to be working
button$clickElement() # but nothing happens here

But nothing happens, not even an error. Can someone tell me what is wrong? Is there a problem with the css selector? Or maybe with Firefox settings? I appreciate any help!! The best solution would include being able to set the file name to be downloaded.

Obs: I made a similar question here (How to download embedded PDF files from webpage using RSelenium?), but since I got stuck in the download step, I decided to post a simpler problem.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 551

Answers (1)

Nad Pat
Nad Pat

Reputation: 3173

I was able to download the file by,

library(RSelenium)
driver <- rsDriver(browser = c("chrome"))

remDr <- driver$client
remDr$navigate("https://rac.anpad.org.br/index.php/rac/article/view/1479/1672")

remDr$findElement(using = "xpath",'/html/body/header/a[3]') -> downloadfile

downloadfile$clickElement()

Upvotes: 1

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