Selenium (Python) - waiting for a download process to complete using Chrome web driver

Question

I\'m using selenium and python via chromewebdriver (windows) in order to automate a task of downloading large amount of files from different pages. My code works, but the so

Answer 1

I had the same problem and this method worked for me.

import time
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.common.exceptions import ElementClickInterceptedException
from threading import Thread
import os
import datetime
def checkFilePresence(downloadPath, numberOfFilesInitially, artistName, 
    songTitle):
    timeNow = datetime.datetime.now()
    found = False
    while not found:
        numberOfFilesNow = len(os.listdir(downloadPath))
        if numberOfFilesNow > numberOfFilesInitially:
            for folders, subfolders, files in os.walk(downloadPath):
                for file in files:
                    modificationTime = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp\
                    (os.path.getctime(os.path.join(folders, file)))
                    if modificationTime > timeNow:
                        if file.endswith('.mp3'):
                            return