Download file at custom path using Selenium WebDriver

Question

I am new to selenium and i would like to download file with selenium chrome web driver in specific custom folder. In default the file is downloading in browser specified dow

Answer 1

Hope it will be help for you!!

var chromeOptions = new ChromeOptions();
 chromeOptions.AddUserProfilePreference("download.default_directory", "Your_Path");
 chromeOptions.AddUserProfilePreference("intl.accept_languages", "nl");
 chromeOptions.AddUserProfilePreference("disable-popup-blocking", "true");
var driver = new ChromeDriver("Driver_Path", chromeOptions);

Answer 2

You need to hack a bit so you can download the file at a specified location. Option 1: Use a third-party tool like AutoIt which can interact with the Windows pop-up and you can specify the path using it. Option 2: Write a custom method that can do the download using the API.

                    var downloadDocLink = webDriver.FindElement(By.XPath("{}")).GetAttribute("onclick");
                    string toBeSearched = "{string}"; //this string needs to be trimmed from the url
                    string downloadUrl = downloadDocLink.Substring(downloadDocLink.IndexOf(toBeSearched) + toBeSearched.Length);
                    var data = webDriver.DownloadByApiCall(downloadUrl);
                    var fileName = webDriver.FindElement(By.XPath("{Xpath}")).Text;

                    //Save result of report api call to file
                    var val = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["OutputPath"];
                    var path = Environment.ExpandEnvironmentVariables(val);
                    var filePath = Path.Combine(path, fileName);

                    var dir = Path.GetDirectoryName(path);
                    Console.WriteLine($"Saving file with {data.Length} bytes to {path}.");
                    if (!Directory.Exists(dir))
                        Directory.CreateDirectory(dir);
                    File.WriteAllBytes(filePath, data);

                    //Ensure file was downloaded          
                    var exists = webDriver.FileExistsSpinWait(filePath);
                    Assert.IsTrue(exists, $"The downloaded report is not present in the download folder: \n{filePath}");

                    //Remove file and ensure deleted
                    File.Delete(filePath);
                    Assert.IsFalse(File.Exists(filePath));

Helper method to download by API call

public static byte[] DownloadByApiCall(this IWebDriver driver, string apiCall)
        {
            var uri = new Uri(driver.Url);            
            var path = $"{url}/{apiCall}";

            byte[] data = null;
            try
            {
                var webRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(path);

                webRequest.CookieContainer = new CookieContainer();
                foreach (var cookie in driver.Manage().Cookies.AllCookies)
                    webRequest.CookieContainer.Add(new System.Net.Cookie(cookie.Name, cookie.Value, cookie.Path, string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(cookie.Domain) ? uri.Host : cookie.Domain));

                var webResponse = (HttpWebResponse)webRequest.GetResponse();
                var ms = new MemoryStream();
                var responseStream = webResponse.GetResponseStream();
                responseStream.CopyTo(ms);
                data = ms.ToArray();
                responseStream.Close();
                webResponse.Close();
            }
            catch (WebException webex)
            {
                var errResp = webex.Response;
                using (var respStream = errResp.GetResponseStream())
                {
                    var reader = new StreamReader(respStream);
                    Assert.Fail($"Error getting file from the server({webex.Status} - {webex.Message}): {reader.ReadToEnd()}.");
                }
            }

            return data;
        }

This works for me, it asserts if the download was successful and it's rerunnable as well as we're deleting the file in the end. Hope this helps!