Access to file download dialog in Firefox

firefox selenium dialog
Andrey Shchekin picture Andrey Shchekin · Jul 24, 2009 · Viewed 111.5k times · Source

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).

Answer

dlopezgonzalez picture dlopezgonzalez · Feb 17, 2012

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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