Is there any way I can find out what the latest file Selenium downloaded was, and from where (what URL) it was downloaded?
I am fetching files from a large number of sites (that I do not control) by clicking on elements, and my problem is that I do not know how the files are downloaded. Sometimes it is just an <a> element, sometimes there is a Javascript event attached to some element, or form (not always obvious from inspection), and so on, and so on.
So I though the easiest would be to just do my clicks, and then check what landed in the download folder. But then I have no idea where that file came from, and I also need to store the url.
For files that can be displayed inline, I can, of course, open them in the browser and get the driver.current_url. This is very convenient for file formats where it actually works, so if there is a way to force e.g. Firefox or Chrome to open all files inline, that would also be an option. (I am aware of one such extension. That extension, however, requires some user interaction in a OS file dialogue window, and that seems like overkill here)
Possible solutions
Firefox: Read moz_downloads from downloads.sqlite, in the FF SQLite DB
Chrome: Read the corresponding SQLite db for Chrome/ium
Write browser extensions that modifies the mimetype of visited pages, so that all files are opened as plain in the browser, and the URLs can be accessed from there.
How I understanding selenium it only insert js to page, that mean that you can interact only with web page but not with browser futures.
But you can do like in this post How to access Google Chrome browser history programmatically on local machine if that files are in download history you can find them there.
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Some browsers has the option to automatically save downloaded files to a folder, without prompting the user where to save the file. This has posed a problem for us where the user automatically saves the file in "Downloads" instead of selecting a proper location.
Is there any HTML-attribute, HTTP-header or JavaScript solution to instruct browsers to prompt for save location for downloaded files even though they are configured otherwise?
Note: I am well aware that this is probably not possible, but wanted to see if someone hopefully can prove me wrong.
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How to make browser download link target instead of navigate: Force to open "Save As..." popup open at text link click for pdf in HTML
No. It's a browser preference. If the user prefers not to be bothered by their browser for download locations, then that's their prerogative. They'll deal with the file location after it has been downloaded. A server cannot influence that behaviour.
So here's the story. At my company, you can access previous pay statements online via a payroll website. When you go to look at a statement, it will open the statement in-browser via a pdf viewer. When working properly, it will usually ask if you want to blank out all the data or not (which... why would you want to? the point is to look at your statement). Now, this worked fine when checking it out in Adobe Reader; you'd just click "yes, show data" and everything displays fine, it can be printed, etc. But the company decided that instead of getting Acrobat for editing pdf files, that the better (cheaper) option is to get a cheap/free alternative called "Nuance" something or other. Two users installed this program, and now the browsers open pdfs in-browser with Nuance instead of Adobe Reader. This is a problem, because Nuance doesn't show the option of hiding or showing data like Reader did; rather, it just chooses the "no" option, which results in a blank template pdf coming up.
Now, this whole problem could be solved if we could just get the browsers to use Reader to open pdf files in-browser... obviously it's not a problem if you could download the pdf, but the site doesn't seem to allow you to download the pdf files. We've tried just about everything we could think of, short of uninstalling Nuance altogether, to get IE or Chrome to open pdf files with Reader, but even with a full IE reset, it uses Nuance to open pdfs inside the browser. Changing the default program for pdfs has yielded no results, IE still uses Nuance in-browser.
Anyone have any thoughts on how to change IE or Chrome to default to using Reader to show pdf files instead of Nuance?
Thanks!
just change the default programs or applications that opens pdf files, make it the adobe reader. You'll have to configure it in Windows, the Default Programs in Control Panel. You'll have to do this in each computer.
I want to know if its possible to customize the way your default google chrome look locally on your computer. I am talking from a developer's point of view and not user(ie not to change the home page by going into chrome setting).
I can change the UI by using the chrome f12 option locally. As chrome is installed on my machine then there should be an index.html or something alike file present to render chrome as it does. I want to access that file if possible.
Thanks
you might be able to find some various files, so i would suggest looking through the following folder. C:\Users\MYUSERNAMEHERE\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
or C:\Users\MYUSERNAMEHERE\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\ as these are the ones that contain your chrome installation, there maybe another folder but this is always the one i have used when developing extensions..
Otherwise i think you will be stuck with the extension part, i myself would have a look at this if you really need.. But that could be a week before i get the chance.
If your looking to deploy a custom google chrome, so they dont need to install extensions. Try the following google term: deploy custom chrome
https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/external_extensions
But editing it directly with just finding a single html file / style i dont think is as easy as it would need to load certain objects into memory and i think they are a little more complex than a plain text file.
EDIT - Looks Like Its Extension Only Now
Had 5 minutes and did a quick google, there was a point where you could use custom style sheets for v32 and below but that was removed https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?revision=234007&view=revision
So you either need to work with firefox or build an extension.. I could not see any files/folders that would do what you need. So yea i'd start looking at extensions.
I have this extremely simple HTML:
<a download="red.png"
href="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAAFCAYAAACNbyblAAAAHElEQVQI12P4//8/w38GIAXDIBKE0DHxgljNBAAO9TXL0Y4OHwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==">
Static
</a>
In Chrome or Firefox, it downloads red.png as expected.
In IE, it navigates to an error page. See it on JSFiddle.
Now, I know the download attribute is not supported in IE, and that's fine. I'd still expect it to navigate to the "file", allowing the user to save it. Instead, it's navigating to an error page.
Is there a way to get around this problem? The Data URI is generated client-side; creating the file on the server is not an option.
Edit: MSDN says:
For security reasons, data URIs are restricted to downloaded
resources. Data URIs cannot be used for navigation, for scripting, or
to populate frame or iframe elements.
...which I read as "Even though every other browser supports this, we don't know how to do it". So, still looking for a workaround to download a file generated on the client.
Since IE does not support either navigating to a data URI, nor the download attribute, the solution is to use navigator.msSaveBlob to generate the file and prompt the user to save it.
Credit goes to this answer.
My web app allows export of data in a variety of formats. The export is triggered by selecting an export format from a dropdown (<select>), which causes the form to be POSTed and the file returned and downloaded in the requested export format.
This works fine on all browsers except for IE - on IE the "To help protect your security" blocker appears, and clicking on the "Click here for options" causes the page to reload instead of allowing the actual download.
In short IE users can't download files due to the blocker and the subsequent reload instead of download.
I know we can ask users to change their security zone settings to enable download, but for a variety of reasons this is not practical - there are a lot of users in a lot of different environments and they tend to ignore instructions.
Are the rules for what causes the blocker to come up documented somewhere? What's the legitimate, recommended way of allowing file downloads in IE? That is, for the scenario detailed below, how can I setup the HTML/form to actually let the user download the file?
Show the user a list of file formats
Once the user selects a file, download it to her computer without triggering the download blocker on IE
Have your <select> block simply inject (using JavaScript) click here to download text somewhere else in the DOM tree. Then, the user clicks on a standard link and it reloads the full page, downloading the file directly.
You can even have the click to cause GET requests..