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

When using test automation, its crucial that developers make the software testable. It is your job to check the software combined with the testability, meaning that you need to request a spinner or a simple HTML tag which indicates when the download is done successfully.

In a case as yours, where you cannot check it in the UI and you cannot check in system, this is the best way to solve it.