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Gurus,
I am using uipath(A Ui Based Automation Tool) to download a file from a website using chrome browser.
I want browser to not prompt before downloading and just download the file in the downloads folder.
From various posts on this website i found that there exists a file called "preferences" which can be modified to solve this problem.
Before coding further i decided to do the changes in the "preferences" file manually on multiple machines, just to make sure that the changes i do in the preferences file reflect in the chrome browser as well .
I am manually modifying values for these 2 options in the preferences file.
download.default_directory
download.prompt_for_download
When i changed value for download.default_directory(Manually in Preferences file), it reflects the same in the chrome browser settings on every machine that i tested on.
But When i change value for download.prompt_for_download, it reflected in the chrome browser settings on some of the machines while on others i found that it does not reflect in the browser and rather the preferences file also seems to have reverted back to previous values.
The steps i followed are as below..
close any running instance of chrome
do the modifications in the preference file and save it
open chrome and go to settings>advance and downloads
i see DreamCatcher pointing to a similiar situation in this post, but no answers there..
I hope I can help solve your issue or at least give you some direction :)
Option#1: Chrome Settings
Wouldn't the problem be solved by changing the settings for downloads in the browser before running the bot? https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95759?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
Option#2: Do it in UiPath
And the other thing, is that when the prompt (to save the file) appears, couldn't you insert the path of the file that includes the default folder to save + name file + extension? (e.g. on the save path of the prompt, use type text "c:\myDocuments\downloads\filename.ext" ? I've done this in the past with UiPath...get the prompt window, type text and just modify the string being passed to carry the path, file name and extensio...then click "SAVE" or use hotkey "Enter"(if the file requires replacement, these are another 20cents you will have to program in UiPath, but it'd doable).
Option#3: Script
Another option, which I have not done, but see my friends do is creating BAT files to reset certain browser settings or the "registry"...so what they do is that they configure the BAT to do the changes to the browser and they add an activity (in UiPath) to invoke the BAT file every time the browser is opened by the robot.
Links for reference:
https://superuser.com/questions/59465/is-it-possible-to-download-using-the-windows-command-line
https://getadmx.com/?Category=Chrome&Policy=Google.Policies.Chrome::DownloadDirectory
I can add a folder to the workspace (which doesn't seem to do anything, as far as I can tell), but the "map to file system resource" option seems to have been removed, and I can no longer live-edit css files.
Is this a bug, or has the process for mapping css files been changed?
This talk (https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/10/devtools-release-notes) says that the new version uses "magic" to map remote files to local ones, but I can't seem to get it to work at all.
For reference, I'm trying to map a reddit css file to one on my own computer. It worked fine on a previous version of Chrome (basically I add the folder, and map the css file inside it, which has been renamed to have the same name as the remote one) but not on the new one (Chrome 63)
I've just fiddled around with a problem, where only some files got mapped to my local workspace.
Turned out that Google Chrome also checks and compares the last modified date of your files.
If the file on the server has a more recent date than your local copy, this file won't be mapped.
I deleted the Bootstrap file on the server side and uploaded my local copy, which has an older last modified date. Google Chrome instantly mapped the file to my local workspace.
Out of curiosity I ran touch bootstrap.min.js on my server to set the last modified date to today. This broke my file mapping again.
Chrome removed manually mapping to filesystem resources because of the new Workspaces 2.0 (See: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/10/devtools-release-notes).
You should be able to drag and drop your folder into the sources tab and it'll link the files automagically.
However automatic mapping doesn't work in many situations and there is a Chrome bug to re-add manual mapping
I had the same problem so I downgraded to Chrome 62 (preferences, history, extensions and so on are preserved).
Download Chrome 62 from
https://www.slimjet.com/chrome/google-chrome-old-version.php .
On OS X trash /Applications/Google Chrome.
Switch off auto-update by setting "defaults write com.google.Keystone.Agent alwaysPromptForUpdates 1". Default is 0.
May be you have to set "defaults write com.google.Keystone.Agent checkInterval 0" too. Default is 18000.
Install Chrome 62 as usual.
After starting Chrome 62 open "About Google Chrome". Chrome is checking for updates, but will prompt you to confirm.
The "Map to File System Resource..." menu item is missing. There appears to be no way to map files. It is completely broken as far as I can tell.
For me, the problem turned out to be the presence of the copyright symbol © in the file headers (which affected just about every file). With this character in the files, devtool refused to map the files but with it removed, the files map fine.
I'm also using Chrome 63.0.3239.132 (Official Build) (64-bit) and as I wanted to use the DevTools Live-edit to edit some js files I saw that the option "Map to file system resource" is missing.
After some research I have found out that the Live-edit is perfectly working in Version 63, you just have to:
go to Sources and then FileSystem
add the folder with your code to the workspace
After that, a small little green point will be displayed near your files (it means the synchronization is ready) and the changes via DevTools can be persisted locally:
Thanks to others in this thread saying chrome is checking the modified date.
Adding this to .htaccess solved it for me
IndexOptions SuppressLastModified
Of course you would not want this to get into your production code as it could stop browser caching working.
I cleared the cache and it works now.
Previously, I opened my CSS file from my FTP client, then I dragged the containing folder into the Sources tab > Filesystem tab (without caring about any folder names nor structure, I just dragged the FTP clients containing folder into it).
The persistent mapping worked straight away, edits from the Chrome Dev Tools were saving on the server. After 30 minutes of fiddling and playing around, it just stopped working and the CSS resource got greyed out. The file icon with the green dot was not appearing anymore.
It didn't matter what I'd do, it would not work, but when I cleared my cache, it started to work again.
File mapping started working reliably for me once I turned on a devtools setting -- click the upper-right gear icon and check Preferences > Network > "Disable cache (while DevTools is open)"
As of today, with Chrome Version 63.0.3239.108 (Official Build) (64-bit):
The feature appears to be still broken, not working 'automagically' nor consistently with the previous behavior.
However, adding a folder that reflects the resource's URL as seen in the Network tab, make it work again. So if for instance, in the Network Navigator tab you have:
http://mylocal.site/wp-content/themes/mytheme/assets/sass/partials/_header.scss
You will just need to add the whole wp-content/ folder to the Filesystem tab to get the feature work again as expected.
Had the same problem, but when my source maps included sourcesContent, the file mappings were automatically made and I could live edit my scss. Apparently chrome uses the content to find the right file.
node-sass --source-map-contents
How can I convert json formatted bookmarks file (taken from /Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Bookmarks) into an bookmarks html file so Google Chrome can import it?
This has more or less been answered in comments by #Mr.P, but let me formalise:
In my example I have a current (OS root) drive called C:\\. I have a storage drive of F:\\ which has a previous install of Chrome on it which I want to retrieve the bookmarks from.
I did this in Powershell but you could easily do it in file explorer you would just need to either enter the path to <drive_name>:\\users\<account_name>\appdata manually/show hidden folders.
close all instances of Chrome currently running (maybe check in the process monitor to ensure all processes terminated).
navigate to <storage_drive_letter>:\\users\<account_name>\appdata\local\google\chrome\default.
On PowerShell you would select the previous install bookmarks file by entering $books = Get-Item bookmarks. On file explorer you would 'cut'
cd <os_drive_letter>:\\users\<account_name>\appdata\local\google\chrome\default or navigate to this path on file explorer
mv $books . or paste file
open up Chrome again and check the bookmarks: they should be visible all together.
[optional] If you're brave close all Chrome windows once again (potentially save both files somewhere else before you do this) delete all files with 'bookmarks' at the start (you can use gci | where {$_.name -like "bookmarks"} | rm) then reopen the browser. In your filesystem Chrome should have automatically regenerated the bookmarks into one file.
If this doesn't work for other people let me know
If for whatever reason, you only have the JSON output of the Chrome bookmarks file, don't sweat it. Chrome will export bookmarks as HTML and import as HTML. But, sometimes you don't have the luxury of exporting from Chrome because of some issue with your Windows installation. But, you're resourceful and managed to at least get access to your Windows filesystem and backed up your Chrome bookmarks file. But, now how do you import it to Chrome on a working computer without it being in HTML format?
On Windows (this was tested on Win 10), all you have to do is Show Hidden Files and Folders and then paste and overwrite the Bookmarks file at:
C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
Don't run around in circles trying to convert JSON to HTML if you have a Windows computer. I'm not sure about Mac and Linux, but I'd bet it would work similarly.
Folder location of bookmark (on February 2021)
Chrome: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
Edge: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Default
Note: "Default" could be something else (e.g. Profile 1) if you are not currently logged in.
Finally i found it
Step 1: Goto Run --> enter - appdata to navigate to this folder
Step 2: You Needs to take backup/copy of your old bookmarks and keep it one place
Step 3 : then you need to navigate to below folder, you can find many profiles of yours.
Navigate to the needed gmail account profile which has your display pic or profile pic
[identify the account you want to import bookmarks]
Go back to the profile 12 [the account which i want to see the bookmarks]
Then replace your old bookmark file here[step 2:which you taken backup bookmark file]
Boooooom! just restart chrome
I think you are making this harder than it is. Save the JASON bookmark.file, first. Go to C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default to save the Bookmark.file somewhere on your computer. Then uninstall the browser (Chrome, for example). Make sure you check the box to remove all history, etc. before you click on Uninstall.
Reinstall the browser, then overwrite the Bookmark.file in C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
DONE! Bookmarks restored. No need to save bookmark.file or convert it to an HTML file for restoral. Just overwrite the bookmark.file with the one you saved before uninstall of your browser.
If you're worried about modifying existing programs, or overwriting any other bookmarks you've currently got, then I found the following easiest:
Install a portable version of Chrome, for example from portableapps.com
Navigate to App\DefaultData\profile\Default inside the install directory
Replace the Bookmarks file with your json file
Launch Chrome Portable, and export the bookmarks as html
Delete Chrome Portable
I had same problem with opera. I simply copy pasted that json file into new location of new installation.
Just drag the .json to opened firefox window and the run bookmarklet
(create new bookmark, enter code in location)
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javascript:(function(){var E=document.getElementsByTagName('PRE')[0],T=E.innerHTML,i=0,r1,r2;t=new Array();while(/("uri":"([^"]*)")/g.exec(T)){r1=RegExp.$1;r2=RegExp.$2;if(/^https?:/.exec(r2)){t[i++]='['+(i)+']:'+r2+'</a>';}}with(window.open().document){for(i=0;t[i];i++)write(t[i]+'');close();}})();
Thanks to dickvl
Clickable links result
Save webpage complete will save .htm
Save .json to desktop, drag browser window smaller from lower right edge till you can drag the .json into opened window., doubleclick titlebar to restore browser full size. In the tab that opens with .json data, click the bookmarklet. Another tab should open with links. You can save as .htm by right click "save page as" web page complete.
Anywhere in the opened window, like dragging a shortcut or html, it'll open
You can also do File > Open File > browse to .json > open
Using JSON
Backup your bookmarks as a JSON file.
Delete the bookmarks you do not want.
Export the ones you do want as an HTML file
Restore your bookmarks with the JSON file
To add mor in the JSON file in a text editor.
Create rows by finding and replacing ',{"title' with 'return{"title' (Don't type the single quotes and, in the replace field, use the appropriate substitute for return: ¶ or \r, for example. My search looked like this: Find: ,{"title Replace: \r,{"title Replace All gave me rows instead of a continuous stream of text.
Save the file as text and open it in a spreadsheet. Each bookmark will have its own row. The site name, URLs, and other data are in columns.
Create a bookmark by copying the URL, pasting it into Firefox, and going to the website.
Drag the URL from the toolbar to the desired location in the sidebar. Change the bookmark title if you don't like the website-assigned title.
Repeat as needed.
Let's say I set a cookie using the setcookie() function in PHP:
setcookie('name','foo',false,'/',false);
I can see it in:
chrome://settings/cookies
However, I can not find the actual file stored on my hard disk. Can anyone tell me where this specific cookie is stored on the hard disk?
The answer is due to the fact that Google Chrome uses an SQLite file to save cookies. It resides under:
C:\Users\<your_username>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\
inside Cookies file. (which is an SQLite database file)
So it's not a file stored on hard drive but a row in an SQLite database file which can be read by a third party program such as: SQLite Database Browser
EDIT: Thanks to #Chexpir, it is also good to know that the values are stored encrypted.
For Google chrome Version 97.0.4692.71 (Latest Release) cookies are found inside the Network folder.
There is a file called "Cookies".
Path : C:\Users\user_name\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Network
Remember to replace user_name.
You can find a solution on SuperUser :
Chrome cookies folder in Windows 7:-
C:\Users\your_username\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\
You'll need a program like SQLite Database Browser to read it.
For Mac OS X, the file is located at :-
~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Cookies
Actually the current browsing path to the Chrome cookies in the address bar is:
chrome://settings/content/cookies
On Windows the path is:
C:\Users\<current_user>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\<Profile 1>\Cookies(Type:File)
Chrome doesn't store each cookies in separate text file. It stores all of the cookies together in a single file in the profile folder. That file is not readable.
For Google chrome Version 56.0.2924.87 (Latest Release) cookies are found inside profile1 folder.
If you browse that you can find variety of information.
There is a separate file called "Cookies". Also the Cache folder is inside this folder.
Path :
C:\Users\user_name\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Profile 1
Remember to replace user_name.
For Version 61.0.3163.100
Path :
C:\Users\user_name\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
Inside this folder there is Cookies file and Cache folder.
Since the expiration time is zero (the third argument, the first false) the cookie is a session cookie, which will expire when the current session ends. (See the setcookie reference).
Therefore it doesn't need to be saved.
Chromium on Linux: it's an SQLite3 database, located at:
~/.config/chromium/Default/Cookies
Google Chrome is going to be similar, try replace with
In case you came here to find out how to see info about the cookie of a particular website in Chrome, open Inspector (press F12) navigating the website, go to the tab Application/Aplicativo and look below in the left tree, there is Storage/cookies with all info:
cookie variables
content, length
expiration dates, etc
I'm not sure in which languages those extensions are, I think the are written in Html, Javascript or JSON. As far as I know they are "compressed" in a .CRX file.
It is possible to directly modify the html, js, json of a Chrome Extension (or whatever language they use)?
Installed Chrome extension directories are listed below:
Copy the folder of the extension you wish to modify. ( Named according to the extension ID, to find the ID of the extension, go to chrome://extensions/). Once copied, you have to remove the _metadata folder.
From chrome://extensions in Developer mode select Load unpacked extension... and select your copied extension folder, if it contains a subfolder this is named by the version, select this version folder where there is a manifest file, this file is necessary for Chrome.
Make your changes, then select reload and refresh the page for your extension to see your changes.
Chrome extension directories
Mac:
/Users/username/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Extensions
Windows 7:
C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions
Windows XP:
C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
Ubuntu 14.04:
~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Extensions/
I searched it in Google and I found this:
The Google Chrome Extension file type is CRX. It is essentially a compression format. So if you want to see what is behind an extension, the scripts and the code, just change the file-type from “CRX” to “ZIP” .
Unzip the file and you will get all the info you need. This way you can see the guts, learn how to write an extension yourself, or modify it for your own needs.
Then you can pack it back up with Chrome’s internal tools which automatically create the file back into CRX. Installing it just requires a click.
A signed CRX file has a header that will cause most/all unzippers to barf. This is not the easiest way to go about it, but here's how to do it from a bash command line.
The basic idea is to find where the original unsigned zipfile begins, then copy the CRX file to a zip file but exclude the CRX header.
hexdump -C the_extension.crx | more
Look in the output for the start of the zip file, which are the ASCII bytes "PK". In the sample I tried, the PK was at offset 0x132. (From reading the CRX spec, I think this number will vary from file to file because of different signature lengths.) That number is what we'll use in the next step.
dd if=the_extension.crx of=the_extension.zip bs=1 skip=0x132 (For the skip parameter, substitute the offset you found in the previous step.)
Now unzip the .zip that you just created.
Fiddle with the files in the unzipped directory, then either install the unsigned/unpacked extension into your Chrome installation, or else repackage it just as you would any other Chrome extension.
I'm sure that there is a more concise way to do this. Bash experts, please improve on my answer.
Note that some zip programs have trouble unzipping a CRX like sathish described - if this is the case, try using 7-Zip - http://www.7-zip.org/
I have read the other answers and found it important to note a few other things:
1.) For Mac users: When you click "Load unpacked extension...", the Library folder is by default hidden and (even if the Show Hidden files option is toggled on your Mac) it might not show up in Chrome's finder window.
2.) The sub folder containing the extension is a random alpha-numeric string named after the extension's ID, which can be found on Chrome's extension page if Developer flag is set to true. (Upper right hand checkbox on the extensions page)
(Already said) I found this out while making some Chrome themes (which are long gone now... :-P)
Chrome themes, extensions, etc. are just compressed files. Get 7-zip or WinRar to unzip it. Each extension/theme has a manifest.json file. Open the manifest.json file in notepad. Then, if you know the coding, modify the code. There will be some other files. If you look in the manifest file you might be able to figure out what the are for. Then, you can change everything...
.CRX files are like .ZIP files, just change the extension and right click > Extract Files and you are done.
Once you have extracted files --> modify them and add to zip and change extension back to .crx.
Other way around --> Open Chrome --> Settings --> Extensions --> Enable Developer Options --> Load unpacked Extension (modified extracted files folder) and then click pack extension.
Source
Now Chrome is multi-user so Extensions should be nested under the OS user profile then the Chrome user profile, My first Chrome user was called Profile 1, my Extensions path was C:\Users\ username \AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\ Profile 1 \Extensions\.
To find yours Navigate to chrome://version/ (I use about: out of laziness).
Notice the Profile Path and just append \Extensions\ and you have yours.
Hope this brings this info on this question up to date more.
It's possible to modify the code of .CRX extension, because it's a simple .zip archive. You can download extension, extract it's source code, modify it (test and debug it as it's on your side), and package back into .CRX file.
I googled out this tool to simply download .CRX extension and extract the source code and it worked for me: http://crxextractor.com
Everything it does is parses .CRX file format and extracts actual .zip containing the source code.
If you have installed the Portable version of Chrome, or have it installed in a custom directory - the extensions won't be available in directory referenced in above answers.
Try right-clicking on Chrome's shortcut & Check the "Target" directory. From there, navigate to one directory above and you should be able to see the User Data folder and then can use the answers mentioned above