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

Works for me:

# open the image in a new tab
driver.execute_script('''window.open("''' + wanted_url + '''","_blank");''')
sleep(2)
driver.switch_to.window(driver.window_handles[1])
sleep(2)

# make screenshot
driver.save_screenshot("C://Folder/" + photo_name + ".jpeg")
sleep(2)

# close the new tab
driver.execute_script('''window.close();''')
sleep(2)

#back to original tab
driver.switch_to.window(driver.window_handles[0])