How to download a file with Selenium and ChromeDriver

Question

I have a website to test with selenium and ChromeDriver (on windows), where I like to test the functionality to export data and import it again.

The export creates a xml file that is downloaded on ones computer. When running this with webdriver, Chrome asks me whether to keep the file or discard it, as it might be a potential threat.

How can I switch off this behavior inside my test ? Is there a chrome setting I can use, so that a file is no matter what downloaded ?

Thanks

Answer 1

Try this. Executed on windows

(How to control the download of files with Selenium Python bindings in Chrome)

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options

options = Options()
options.add_experimental_option("prefs", {
  "download.default_directory": r"C:\Users\xxx\downloads\Test",
  "download.prompt_for_download": False,
  "download.directory_upgrade": True,
  "safebrowsing.enabled": True
})