Disable firefox save as dialog-selenium

Question

I am web scraping with selenium and whenever i try to download i file the firefox download/save as file pops up however, even If i apply profile.set_preference(\'brows

Answer 1

you should do two things, first set these three preferences as follows (this is in Java but I guess you manage to translate that to python :-):

profile.setPreference("browser.download.dir", "c:/yourDownloadDir");
profile.setPreference("browser.download.folderList", 2);
profile.setPreference("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk", "application/csv, text/csv");

secondly, you should make sure the download file has the desired mime type. To do that, you can use the web developer tools and inspect the download.

EDIT:

To find out the MIME type open Chrome, press Ctrl+Shift+I (Cmd+Alt+I on Mac OS) change to the 'Network' tab and click your download link. You should see something like this: