Handle Download popup dialog box using selenium Webdriver

In this post we are going to handle the "Download popup dialog box" . when we are downloading files from Webpages.

Usually when we are downloading files from webpages. we get a popup like below.

We can't handle this popup using Selenium Webdriver.

To solve this issue in selenium we need to use FireFoxprofile to disable the popup dialog window.

In this Example:

1. Setting Perference in the FireFoxProfile to disable the popup

   String downloadPath = "C:\\mydownload\\";

             

              FirefoxProfile myprofile=new FirefoxProfile();

              myprofile.setPreference("browser.download.folderList", 2);

              myprofile.setPreference("browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting", false);

              myprofile.setPreference("browser.download.dir", downloadPath);

              myprofile.setPreference("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.openFile","application/msword, application/csv, application/ris, text/csv, image/png, application/pdf, text/html, text/plain, application/zip, application/x-zip, application/x-zip-compressed, application/download, application/octet-stream");

              myprofile.setPreference("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk", "application/msword, application/csv, application/ris, text/csv, image/png, application/pdf, text/html, text/plain, application/zip, application/x-zip, application/x-zip-compressed, application/download, application/octet-stream");

              myprofile.setPreference("browser.helperApps.alwaysAsk.force", false);

              myprofile.setPreference("browser.download.manager.showAlertOnComplete", false);

              myprofile.setPreference("browser.download.manager.closeWhenDone", false);

   2. Set the Profile in FirefoxDriver.

     driver=new FirefoxDriver(myprofile);

    

     3. Navigate to firefox official webpage to download the setup

    driver.get("https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/");

              Thread.sleep(5000);

              driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='download-button-desktop-release']/ul/li[1]/a/span")).click();

Below See the full Source Code

Sourcecode:

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxProfile;

public class DownloadProfile {

       public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {

              // TODO Auto-generated method stub

              WebDriver driver;

              String downloadPath = "C:\\mydownload\\";

             

              FirefoxProfile myprofile=new FirefoxProfile();

              myprofile.setPreference("browser.download.folderList", 2);

              myprofile.setPreference("browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting", false);

              myprofile.setPreference("browser.download.dir", downloadPath);

              myprofile.setPreference("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.openFile","application/msword, application/csv, application/ris, text/csv, image/png, application/pdf, text/html, text/plain, application/zip, application/x-zip, application/x-zip-compressed, application/download, application/octet-stream");

              myprofile.setPreference("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk", "application/msword, application/csv, application/ris, text/csv, image/png, application/pdf, text/html, text/plain, application/zip, application/x-zip, application/x-zip-compressed, application/download, application/octet-stream");

              myprofile.setPreference("browser.helperApps.alwaysAsk.force", false);

              myprofile.setPreference("browser.download.manager.showAlertOnComplete", false);

              myprofile.setPreference("browser.download.manager.closeWhenDone", false);

             

             

              driver=new FirefoxDriver(myprofile);

              driver.get("https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/");

              Thread.sleep(5000);

              driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='download-button-desktop-release']/ul/li[1]/a/span")).click();

             

              System.out.println("Download done without popup");

       }

}

Run the project, Notice that Download Starts without popup the dialog window.

Thats it,

Thanks, Have a great day !!.