How to download files in Chrome, Firefox & Edge browsers using Selenium WebDriver?

In this video, I have explained about "How to download files in Chrome, Firefox & Edge browsers using Selenium WebDriver?".

Video Timeline:
00:00 Introduction
02:59 Download files in chrome browser
17:06 Download files in edge browser
23:39 Download files in firefox browser

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Sometimes we have to download the files from our web applications and perform some operations on those files like verifying the content or verify whether the file is downloaded or not etc.

But there are many types of files available on the market right?

Almost all of the file types can be downloaded into our computer by directly clicking on a button or link but there are some file types that directly opens the content in preview mode inside the browser window itself.

And those browser windows give you the options to save the file and print the file etc...

those options are not coming from the application rather they are just coming from the browser window.

So we all knew that we can inspect only the HTML elements that are present inside the application. in this scenario the options are not coming from the web application rather they are coming from the browser.

That tells us we cant inspect them and automate them using selenium directly right?

But as everything is having a solution, we do have a solution for this problem as well. i.e Options class

Every individual browser provides the options class inside the selenium webdriver.

using these option classes we can set some settings which can directly download these files onto our local computers instead of opening them in the preview mode.

The option classes are:
► ChromeOptions
► FirefoxOptions
► EdgeOptions
► SafariOptions
► OperaOptions etc..

In this video, I have shown you how to download any kind of file into our local computer without opening them in the preview mode using these option classes.

I have also shown you how to download these files into the custom directory set by the user.

Watch this video completely to understand the whole process for the top 3 browsers available as of today.

Covered Questions:
✔ How to download the files using the selenium webdriver?
✔ How to download the files in chrome browser using the selenium webdriver?
✔ How to download the files in firefox browser using the selenium webdriver?
✔ How to download the files in edge browser using the selenium webdriver?
✔ How to download the files into the custom directory using selenium webdriver?
✔ How to download the files into the user-defined directory using selenium webdriver?
✔ How to change the download file location using selenium webdriver?
✔ How to download the embedded PDF file using selenium webdriver?
✔ How to download the PDF file using selenium webdriver?

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[purvidholakia]

In your most of videos you explain something extras/advanced about selenium. Thank you so much.

[wilmergonzales]

Estimado, estoy emocionado por tu Excelente contenido. Gracias.
Estaré atento a tus videos. Saludos desde Perú. 🇵🇪

[Imrankhan-xwme]

A big thank you to bro. I was scratching my head for the same problem and I've found my solution. Let me apply this and I'll let you know if I have any issues

[RajeshP]

Thank you for the video. I am trying to download an XML file in Edge browser and I am seeing a security pop-up stating that the download is blocked. I have tried various options, but none of them seem to work. Could you please advise me on this?
var options = new EdgeOptions();

options.AddUserProfilePreference("download.prompt_for_download", false);
options.AddUserProfilePreference("savefile.default_directory", OutputFilePath);
options.AddUserProfilePreference("savefile.prompt_for_download", false);

[raahulg]

Please Help!! How to set capabilities using Javascript.
Also, is there anyway to override the file, since system is adding (1), (2) like in file names or we can provide file name instead of system generated name.

[vickydesai]

Which selenium java version is used in this

[SukoonLakeeroMe]

Hi, If we want to execute this script parallely on all browsers. Then this method won't work, can u suggest anything through which we can validate download feature parallelly for all browsers?

[manjunathk]

once the site is downloaded getting a kind of arrow at the bottom which is preventing from clicking on the browse button on the element and also when tried the other way there is some kind of adv page which comes- can you tell me how to overcome this problem

[shankarlingam]

Hi bro,
I am getting open button in the pdf preview once I click on the button then only doc is getting downloaded in the specifed file path and may I know how to handle dis scenerio? Thanks!

[ramji_]

Can you let me know which Edge browser version is being used?. My scenario is on clicking a link a file downloads and I need to set the download path to another directory. I use Edge 96 and the edge options specified as above is not working for me.

[kumarshinge]

Sir, Can we create new folder for every download and after verifying file it needs to delete downloaded file with created folder too In selenium Java?
It is possible?

[Biswamber_Khandei]

Thank you so kuch dear, I really great full to you.

[mobinfrancis]

good video. I'm struck with an issue now, for me, I have a scenario like, when i'm clicking to download the pdf in my office application, it opens a window and I need to click on "save", after that I need to select the location to save. may I know how can we achieve this.

[yashpanchal]

Brother, how about IE driver? I want to save a webpage itself in the pdf format to a specific folder in my framework in IE Browser. Can anyone help pls?

[madhankumar]

For Edge experimental option is not working, which selenium version is used

[archanamuthukrishnan]

Hi can you please explain how to download pdf using webdriverio ?

[subhakar]

After clicking browse button it is showing one blocking ad having close and open buttons
will you please tell me how to handle this (I tried swtich to alert, window handle, and also with in the same driver but not working)..Is there any other way to handle this type of blocking ads.

[vishnunanditaramisetty]

Reddy garu nice explanation, I have small query, below line works for all the filetypes?
prefs.put("plugins.always_open_pdf_externally", true);
Kindly confirm.

[nayanagopinath]

The website shows Ads which fails the test script. how can we handle such Ads, as its properties are dynamic ?