Setting selenium to use custom profile, but it keeps opening with default

Question

I am trying to use python and selenium to automate some tasks in firefox. When I download a file, that pop up comes up asking if you want to open or save, and a check box fo

Answer 1

Error: fp.set_preference("browser.download.dir",getcwd()) NameError: name 'getcwd' is not defined

getcwd() is not defined. So I assume you want the getcwd from the os module:

• http://docs.python.org/library/os.html

add: import os , and then invoke with os.getcwd().

or you could just add the import for this function: from os import getcwd

your example with the proper imports included:

import os
from selenium import webdriver

profile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
profile.set_preference('browser.download.folderList', 2)
profile.set_preference('browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting', False)
profile.set_preference('browser.download.dir', os.getcwd())
profile.set_preference('browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk', 'text/csv/xls')
driver = webdriver.Firefox(profile)

Answer 2

I did the following:

Or:

Linux: ls -d /home/$USER/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/ to see user profile directories

Mac: ls -d ~/Library/Application\ Support/Firefox/Profiles/*

Output:

/home/jmunsch/.mozilla/firefox/xfoyzfsb.default/
/home/jmunsch/.mozilla/firefox/yxjwk1py.default/

To load a custom user profile I ran through creating a profile in firefox and then did the following with the python selenium webdriver code:

def setUp(self):
    self.profile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile('/home/jmunsch/.mozilla/firefox/yxjwk1py.default')
    self.driver = webdriver.Firefox(self.profile)

System Info:

Python 2.7.3 (default, Sep 26 2013, 20:08:41) 
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pkg_resources;pkg_resources.get_distribution("selenium").version

jmunsch@NE-522:~/Desktop/work$ firefox --version
Mozilla Firefox 26.0

also note

@Corey's answer to manually set a profile

All of the configurables can be found under about:config:

profile.set_preference('browser.download.folderList', 2)

Answer 3

You should add this:

profile.set_preference("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.openFile",
    "text/csv,application/x-msexcel,application/excel,application/x-excel,application/vnd.ms-excel,image/png,image/jpeg,text/html,text/plain,application/msword,application/xml")

It does work!