Ok so far i have my programing going to the website i want to download link from and selecting it, then the firefox dialogue box shows up and i don't know what to do. i want to save this file to a folder on my desktop. I am using this for a nightly build so i need this to work. Please help.
Here is my code that grabs the download link from the website:
driver = web driver.Firefox()
driver.implicitly_wait(5)
driver.get("Name of web site I'm grabbing from")
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[contains(text(), 'DEV.tgz')]".click()
解决方案
You need to make Firefox save this particular file type automatically.
This can be achieved by setting browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk preference:
from selenium import webdriver
profile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
profile.set_preference("browser.download.folderList", 2)
profile.set_preference("browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting", False)
profile.set_preference("browser.download.dir", 'PATH TO DESKTOP')
profile.set_preference("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk", "application/x-gzip")
driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=profile)
driver.get("Name of web site I'm grabbing from")
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[contains(text(), 'DEV.tgz')]").click()
More explanation:
browser.download.folderList tells it not to use default Downloads directory
browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting turns of showing download progress
browser.download.dir sets the directory for downloads
browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk tells Firefox to automatically download the files of the selected mime-types
You can view all these preferences at about:config in the browser. There is also a very detailed documentation page available here: About:config entries.
Besides, instead of using xpath approach, I would use find_element_by_partial_link_text():
driver.find_element_by_partial_link_text("DEV.tgz").click()
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