Download a file from a onclick button using Selenium and NodeJS

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SO, I'm trying to download a file into a specific directory while using Selenium with nodeJS to trigger the download. Here is the code I have to click the button itself:

const chai = require('chai');
const expect = require('chai').expect;
const assert = require('chai').assert;
var webdriver = require('selenium-webdriver'),
    By = webdriver.By,
    until = webdriver.until;
var driver = new webdriver.Builder()
     .forBrowser('chrome')
     .add_argument("")
     .build();

driver.get(url);

driver.sleep(2000).then(function() {
    driver.getTitle().then(function(title) {
        expect(title).to.equal(title);
    });
});
driver.sleep(2000).then(function() {
    driver.executeScript('window.scrollTo(0,10000);');
    driver.sleep(300);
    driver.findElement(By.className('button col-md-2 download-button')).click();
})

My issue is that Selenium and the web driver seem to download into a unknown/inaccessible location. If anyone knows how to solve this issue if would be appreciated.

Chrome Driver Version = 2.32.498537 
npm Selenium-Webdriver Version = 3.5

Rushby · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-21 15:34:27Z

2

You need to set the download location by doing something like:

var webdriver = require("selenium-webdriver");
var chrome = require("selenium-webdriver/chrome");
var options = new chrome.Options();
options.addArguments(“download.default_directory”,”/path/to/download”);

var driver = new webdriver.Builder()
     .forBrowser('chrome')
     .withCapabilities(options.toCapabilities())
     .build();

answered Sep 21, 2017 at 15:34

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