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Getting Download Link of Last Downloaded File - Selenium

I am trying to get link of Last Downloaded file in Selenium Python. The following is the download Button for downloading. It doesn't show any link.

<button id="download_mi_button" class="btn btn-success btn-pill btn-lg w-50"> Download File</button>

So I thought to download the file and then get the link of the last downloaded file and possibly cancel the downloading too as I just need the link.

Page URL : https://mifirm.net/download/5612

Download Button Text : Download Server Xiaomi

Solution

  • Things to be noted down.

    1. You'd have to scroll down till the web element is in Selenium view port.
    2. Launch browser in full screen mode.
    3. Use explicit waits.
    4. There's no link in HTML body, but download is appearing in chrome://downloads, so we can navigate to downloads section and then the can a grab a link, (Please see below)
    5. Also, the desired link is in shadow-root element which has to handle via JS call.

    Code :

    driver = webdriver.Chrome(driver_path)
driver.maximize_window()
#driver.implicitly_wait(50)
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 20)
driver.get("https://mifirm.net/download/5612")
ele = wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "button[id='download_mi_button']")))
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].scrollIntoView(true);", ele)
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", ele)
time.sleep(3)
driver.get("chrome://downloads/")
time.sleep(3)

download_link = driver.execute_script('return document.querySelector("body > downloads-manager").shadowRoot.querySelector("#frb0").shadowRoot.querySelector("#url")')
print(download_link.get_attribute('href'))

Cancel_Button = driver.execute_script('return document.querySelector("body > downloads-manager").shadowRoot.querySelector("#frb0").shadowRoot.querySelector("#safe > div:nth-child(6) > cr-button")') 
Cancel_Button.click()

    Imports :

    from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC