Access to file download dialog in Firefox

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Is there any kind of API that can allow me to manipulate a file download dialog in Firefox   I want to access the one that appears when user does something  not initiate one myself    What I want to do is to access this dialog from Selenium  and whether Selenium  privileged mode  is enough to access chrome interface is something I am not sure about as well

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In addition you can add        profile setPreference  browser download panel shown  false     To remove the downloaded file list that gets shown by default and covers up part of the web page   My total settings are           DesiredCapabilities dc   DesiredCapabilities firefox            dc merge capabillities           FirefoxProfile profile   new FirefoxProfile            profile setAcceptUntrustedCertificates true           profile setPreference  browser download folderList   4           profile setPreference  browser download dir   TestConstants downloadDir getAbsolutePath             profile setPreference  browser download manager alertOnEXEOpen   false           profile setPreference  browser helperApps neverAsk saveToDisk    application msword  application csv  application ris  text csv  data image png  image png  application pdf  text html  text plain  application zip  application x-zip  application x-zip-compressed  application download  application octet-stream            profile setPreference  browser download manager showWhenStarting   false           profile setPreference  browser download manager focusWhenStarting   false           profile setPreference  browser download useDownloadDir   true           profile setPreference  browser helperApps alwaysAsk force   false           profile setPreference  browser download manager alertOnEXEOpen   false           profile setPreference  browser download manager closeWhenDone   true           profile setPreference  browser download manager showAlertOnComplete   false           profile setPreference  browser download manager useWindow   false           profile setPreference  browser download panel shown  false           dc setCapability FirefoxDriver PROFILE  profile           this driver   new FirefoxDriver dc

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Dont know  but you could perhaps check the source of one of the Firefox download addons   Here is the source for one that I use Download Statusbar

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I have a solution for this issue  check the code   FirefoxProfile firefoxProfile   new FirefoxProfile     firefoxProfile setPreference  browser download folderList  2   firefoxProfile setPreference  browser download manager showWhenStarting  false   firefoxProfile setPreference  browser download dir   c   downloads    firefoxProfile setPreference  browser helperApps neverAsk saveToDisk   text csv     WebDriver driver   new FirefoxDriver firefoxProfile    new RemoteWebDriver new URL  http   localhost 4444 wd hub    capability    driver navigate   to  http   www myfile com hey csv

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Web Applications generate 3 different types of pop-ups   namely   1  JavaScript PopUps  2  Browser PopUps  3  Native OS PopUps  e g   Windows Popup like Upload Download   In General  the JavaScript pop-ups are generated by the web application code  Selenium provides an API to handle these JavaScript pop-ups  such as Alert  Eventually  the simplest way to ignore Browser pop-up and download files is done by making use of Browser profiles   There are couple of ways to do this   Manually involve changes on browser properties  or  Customize browser properties using profile setPreference  Method1 Before you start working with pop-ups on Browser profiles  make sure that the Download options are set default to Save File   Open Firefox  Tools  gt  Options  gt  Applications  Method2 Make use of the below snippet and do edits whenever necessary  FirefoxProfile profile   new FirefoxProfile     String path    quot C   Test   quot   profile setPreference  quot browser download folderList quot   2   profile setPreference  quot browser download dir quot   path   profile setPreference  quot browser download manager alertOnEXEOpen quot   false   profile setPreference  quot browser helperApps neverAsk saveToDisk quot    quot application msword  application csv  application ris  text csv  image png  application pdf  text html  text plain  application zip  application x-zip  application x-zip-compressed  application download  application octet-stream quot    profile setPreference  quot browser download manager showWhenStarting quot   false   profile setPreference  quot browser download manager focusWhenStarting quot   false     profile setPreference  quot browser download useDownloadDir quot   true   profile setPreference  quot browser helperApps alwaysAsk force quot   false   profile setPreference  quot browser download manager alertOnEXEOpen quot   false   profile setPreference  quot browser download manager closeWhenDone quot   true   profile setPreference  quot browser download manager showAlertOnComplete quot   false   profile setPreference  quot browser download manager useWindow quot   false   profile setPreference  quot services sync prefs sync browser download manager showWhenStarting quot   false   profile setPreference  quot pdfjs disabled quot   true           driver   new FirefoxDriver profile

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I didnt unserstood your objective   Do you wanted your test to automatically download file when test is getting executed  if yes  then You need to use custom Firefox profile in your test execution   In the custom profile  for first time execute test manually and if download dialog comes  the set it Save it to Disk  also check Always perform this action checkbox which will ensure that file automatically get downloaded next time you run your test

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Most browsers  in mine case Firefox  select the OK button by default  So I managed to solve this by using the following code  It basically presses enter for you and the file is downloaded   Robot robot   new Robot        A short pause  just to be sure that OK is selected Thread sleep 3000    robot keyPress KeyEvent VK ENTER   robot keyRelease KeyEvent VK ENTER

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I was stuck with the same problem  but I found a solution  I did it the same way as this blog did    Of course this was Java  I ve translated it to Python   fp   webdriver FirefoxProfile    fp set preference  browser download folderList  2  fp set preference  browser download manager showWhenStarting  False  fp set preference  browser download dir  getcwd    fp set preference  browser helperApps neverAsk saveToDisk   text csv    browser   webdriver Firefox firefox profile fp    In my example it was a CSV file  But when you need more  there are stored in the    mozilla  USER PROFILE mimeTypes rdf

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I had the same problem  I wanted no access of Save Dialogue   Below code can help       FirefoxProfile fp   new FirefoxProfile        fp setPreference  browser download folderList  2       fp setPreference  browser download manager showWhenStarting  false       fp setPreference  browser helperApps alwaysAsk force   false          Below you have to set the content-type of downloading file I have set simple CSV file      fp setPreference  browser helperApps neverAsk saveToDisk   text csv      According to the file type which is being downloaded  You need to specify content types   You can specify multiple content-types separated with         e g        fp setPreference  browser helperApps neverAsk saveToDisk   text csv application vnd ms-excel application msword

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I was facing the same issue   In our application the instance of FireFox was created by passing the DesiredCapabilities as follows  driver   new FirefoxDriver capabilities     Based on the suggestions by others  I did my changes as   FirefoxProfile firefoxProfile   new FirefoxProfile         firefoxProfile setPreference  browser helperApps neverAsk saveToDisk        application octet-stream    driver   new FirefoxDrvier firefoxProfile     This served the purpose but unfortunately my other automation tests started failing  And the reason was  I have removed the capabilities which were being passed earlier   Some more browsing on net and found an alternate way  We can set the profile itself in the desired Capabilities   So the new working code looks like  DesiredCapabilities capabilities   DesiredCapabilities firefox        add more capabilities as per your need  FirefoxProfile firefoxProfile   new FirefoxProfile            firefoxProfile setPreference  browser helperApps neverAsk saveToDisk        application octet-stream        set the firefoxprofile as a capability capabilities setCapability FirefoxDriver PROFILE  firefoxProfile   driver   new FirefoxDriver capabilities

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Instead of triggering the native file-download dialog like so   By DOWNLOAD ANCHOR   By partialLinkText  download    driver findElement DOWNLOAD ANCHOR  click      I usually do this instead  to bypass the native File Download dialog   This way it works on ALL browsers   String downloadURL   driver findElement DOWNLOAD ANCHOR  getAttribute  href    File downloadedFile   getFileFromURL downloadURL     This just requires that you implement method getFileFromURL that uses Apache HttpClient to download a file and return a File reference to you   Similarly  if you happen to be using Selenide  it works the same way using the built-in download   function for handling file downloads

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Not that I know of  But you can configure Firefox to automatically start the download and save the file in a specific place  Your test could then check that the file actually arrived

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