How do you automatically download a Pdf with Selenium Webdriver in Python

Question

I have a URL that takes me directly to a pdf. I would like to automatically download that file. Below is my sample code.

from selenium import webdriver   
            
chromedriver ="//Server/Apps/chrome_driver/chromedriver.exe"                
download_dir = "C:\\Temp\\Download"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chromedriver)
driver.implicitly_wait(15)
options = webdriver.chrome.options.Options()
profile = {"plugins.plugins_list": [{"enabled": False, "name": "Chrome PDF Viewer"}], # Disable Chrome's PDF Viewer
               "download.default_directory": download_dir , "download.extensions_to_open": "application/pdf"}
options.add_experimental_option("prefs", profile)

driver.get('https://www.troweprice.com/content/dam/trowecorp/Pdfs/TRPIL%20MiFID%20II%20Execution%20Quality%20Report%202017.pdf  ')

Answer 1

Try this code,

from selenium import webdriver

download_dir = "C:\\Temp\\Dowmload"  # for linux/*nix, download_dir="/usr/Public"
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()

profile = {"plugins.plugins_list": [{"enabled": False, "name": "Chrome PDF Viewer"}], # Disable Chrome's PDF Viewer
               "download.default_directory": download_dir , "download.extensions_to_open": "applications/pdf"}
options.add_experimental_option("prefs", profile)
driver = webdriver.Chrome('//Server/Apps/chrome_driver/chromedriver.exe', chrome_options=options)  # Optional argument, if not specified will search path.

driver.get(`https://www.troweprice.com/content/dam/trowecorp/Pdfs/TRPIL%20MiFID%20II%20Execution%20Quality%20Report%202017.pdf`)

For further understanding, you can refer to the Selenium Course.

Comments

still not working

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Hey, @Madhav,

Could you please post your error logs? It will be better for us to resolve it ASAP.

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Hello. Your code is not working. It does not save the PDF page, but opens it in the browser.