How to disable 'This type of file can harm your computer' pop up

Question

I\'m using selenium chromedriver for automating web application. In my application, I need to download xml files. But when I download xml file, I get \'This type of file can

Answer 1

I am posting below the complete code that got file download working for me: Hope it helps :-) I am using Java-Selenium

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:/chromedriver/chromedriver.exe");
        String downloadFilepath = "D:/MyDeskDownload";
        HashMap<String, Object> chromePrefs = new HashMap<String, Object>();
        chromePrefs.put("profile.default_content_settings.popups", 0);
        chromePrefs.put("download.default_directory", downloadFilepath);
        chromePrefs.put("safebrowsing.enabled", "true"); 
        ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
        options.setExperimentalOption("prefs", chromePrefs);
        DesiredCapabilities cap = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
        cap.setCapability(CapabilityType.ACCEPT_SSL_CERTS, true);
        cap.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, options);
        WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(cap);

Answer 2

For context, I had a .csv with a list of .swf flash documents and their respective urls. Since the files could only be accessed after a valid login, I couldn't use a simple requests based solution.

Just like .xml, downloading a .swf triggers a similar prompt.

None of the answers worked for me.

So I stripped away all the extra arguments and settings the above answers proposed and just made the chrome instance headless.

options.add_argument("--headless")

prefs = {
    "download.default_directory": "C:\LOL\Flash",
    "download.prompt_for_download": False,
    "download.directory_upgrade": True,
}
options.add_experimental_option("prefs",prefs)