Using Selenium with Python and PhantomJS to download file to filesystem

Question

I\'ve been grappling with using PhantomJS/Selenium/python-selenium to download a file to the filesystem. I\'m able to easily navigate through the DOM and click, hover etc. D

Answer 1

PhantomJS doesn't currently support file downloads. Relevant issues with workarounds:

• File download
• How to handle file save dialog box using Selenium webdriver and PhantomJS?

As far as I understand, you have at least 3 options:

• switch to casperjs (and you should leave python here)
• try with headless on xvfb
• switch to normal non-headless browsers

Here are also some links that might help too:

• Selenium Headless Automated Testing in Ubuntu
• XWindows for Headless Selenium (with further links inside)
• How to run browsers(chrome, IE and firefox) in headless mode?
• Tutorial: How to use Headless Firefox for Scraping in Linux