How to download an image using Selenium (any version)?

Question

I was wondering, how can one use selenium/webdriver to download an image for a page. Assuming that the user session is required to download the image hence having pure URL i

Answer 1

here is a javascript solution. it's a tad silly -- and i'm weary of hitting the source image's server with too many requests. can someone tell me if the fetch() accesses the browser's cache? i don't want to spam the source server.

it appends a FileReader() to the window, fetches and converts the image to base64 and tags that string onto the window.

the driver can then return that window variable.

export async function scrapePic(driver) {
try {
console.log("waiting for that profile piccah")
console.log(driver)

let rootEl = await driver.findElement(By.css('.your-root-element'));
let imgEl = await rootEl.findElement(By.css('img'))
await driver.wait(until.elementIsVisible(imgEl, 10000));
console.log('profile piccah found')
let img = await imgEl.getAttribute('src')
//attach reader to driver window
await driver.executeScript(`window.myFileReader = new FileReader();`)
await driver.executeScript(`
  window.myFileReader.onloadend = function() {
    window['profileImage'] = this.result
  }
  fetch( arguments[0] ).then( res => res.blob() ).then( blob => window.electronFileReader.readAsDataURL(blob) )
  `, img)
await driver.sleep(5000)
let img64 = await driver.executeScript(`return window.profileImage`)
console.log(img64)


} catch (e) {
console.log(e)
} finally {
return img64
  }
}