How to disable 'This type of file can harm your computer' pop up

Question

I\'m using selenium chromedriver for automating web application. In my application, I need to download xml files. But when I download xml file, I get \'This type of file can

Answer 1

The accepted answer stopped working after a recent update of Chrome. Now you need to use the --safebrowsing-disable-extension-blacklist and --safebrowsing-disable-download-protection command-line switches. This is the WebdriverIO config that works for me:

var driver = require('webdriverio');
var client = driver.remote({
    desiredCapabilities: {
        browserName: 'chrome',
        chromeOptions: {
            args: [
                'disable-extensions',
                'safebrowsing-disable-extension-blacklist',
                'safebrowsing-disable-download-protection'
            ],
            prefs: {
                'safebrowsing.enabled': true
            }
        }
    }
});

Note that I am also disabling extensions, because they generally interfere with automated testing, but this is not strictly needed to fix the problem with downloading XML and JavaScript files.

I found these switches by reading through this list. You can also see them in the Chromium source.