How to set default download directory in selenium

Question

Please find the below code with the chrome capabilities. In fact the browser is not downloading the file to the specified path.

private static DesiredCapabilities getChromeCapabilities() throws Exception {

    String chromePath = BrowserUtil.class.getResource("/Browserdrivers/chromedriver.exe").getPath();
    System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", chromePath);
    String downloadFilepath = "C:\\TestDownloads";
    ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
    HashMap<String, Object> chromePrefs = new HashMap<String, Object>();
    chromePrefs.put("profile.default_content_settings.popups", 0);
    chromePrefs.put("download.default_directory", downloadFilepath);
    options.setExperimentalOption("prefs", chromePrefs);
    options.addArguments("--test-type");
    options.addArguments("start-maximized", "disable-popup-blocking");

    DesiredCapabilities chromeCapabilities = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
    setProxy(chromeCapabilities);
    chromeCapabilities.setPlatform(Platform.WINDOWS);
    chromeCapabilities.setCapability("name", MDC.get("testname"));
    chromeCapabilities.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, options);
    return chromeCapabilities;
}

Answer 1

To make it more clean and easy, I developed a library which lets you generate a ChromeOptions object which contains your download folder in one line. For example, to define "/tmp/downloads", use:

private SeleniumDownloadKPI seleniumDownloadKPI;

@BeforeEach
void setUpTest() {

    // New instance of SeleniumDownloadKPI with given download folder.
    seleniumDownloadKPI =
         new SeleniumDownloadKPI("/tmp/downloads");
    ChromeOptions chromeOptions =
            seleniumDownloadKPI.generateDownloadFolderCapability();
    driver = new ChromeDriver(chromeOptions);

The library also contains methods which allow to receive download KPI and perform assertion.

Answer 2

For Chromedriver try out with:

String downloadFilepath = "/path/to/download";
HashMap<String, Object> chromePrefs = new HashMap<String, Object>();
chromePrefs.put("profile.default_content_settings.popups", 0);
chromePrefs.put("download.default_directory", downloadFilepath);
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.setExperimentalOption("prefs", chromePrefs);
DesiredCapabilities cap = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
cap.setCapability(CapabilityType.ACCEPT_SSL_CERTS, true);
cap.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, options);
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(cap);

Note:- In windows you need to use \\ for path while if you are using linux or mac then use //

Hope this helps. :)

Answer 3

The ans which help me to resolve this issue on windows (https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromedriver/issues/detail?id=783).

Map<String, Object> prefs = new HashMap<String, Object>();
prefs.put("download.default_directory",  System.getProperty("user.dir")+ File.separator + "externalFiles" + File.separator + "downloadFiles");
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.setExperimentalOption("prefs", prefs);
ChromeDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);

Answer 4

For Chrome driver, the below code is worked for me

String downloadFilepath = "/path/to/download";
HashMap<String, Object> chromePrefs = new HashMap<String, Object>();
chromePrefs.put("profile.default_content_settings.popups", 0);
chromePrefs.put("download.default_directory", downloadFilepath);
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.setExperimentalOption("prefs", chromePrefs);
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);

Answer 5

For Python users who see this page -- here's how I set the download directory in Python Selenium (this is just the Python version of Shubham's accepted answer):

def newChromeBrowser(headless=True, downloadPath=None):
    """ Helper function that creates a new Selenium browser """
    options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
    if headless:
        options.add_argument('headless')
    if downloadPath is not None:
        prefs = {}
        os.makedirs(downloadPath)
        prefs["profile.default_content_settings.popups"]=0
        prefs["download.default_directory"]=downloadPath
        options.add_experimental_option("prefs", prefs)
    browser = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options, executable_path=CHROMEDRIVER_PATH)
    return browser