Disable chrome download multiple files confirmation

Question

I developed a crawler with ruby watir-webdriver that downloads some files from a page. My problem is that when I click to download the second file, Chrome opens a bar in the

Answer 1

It seems that the solution is different for older and newer chromedriver versions and that is adding to the confusion.

chromedriver

profile = Selenium::WebDriver::Chrome::Profile.new
profile['download.prompt_for_download'] = false
profile['download.default_directory'] = download_directory

b = Watir::Browser.new :chrome, :profile => profile

chromedriver2

prefs = {
      'profile' => {
          'default_content_settings' => {'multiple-automatic-downloads' => 1},
      }
  }

b = Watir::Browser.new :chrome, :prefs => prefs

Today most people are probably using chromedriver2 version and that is a solution that should work fine. It worked ok in my watir scripts as I am not getting the message: "This site is attempting to download multiple files. Do you want to allow this?" anymore.