Python : Disable Download Popup When Using Firefox With Selenium

I have script that using selenium and firefox to automating download action. The problem is whenever I run script I always get pop up from firefox keep asking what kinds of action

Solution 1:

I have spent many hours trying to suppress that "save or open" pop-up that appears when downloading a file using the firefox driver with selenium (python 3.x). None of the many suggestions involving various values for profile.set_preference worked for me. Maybe I missed something.

Still, I finally got it working by the other method that is recommended : using an existing firefox profile.

You can tweak your default (or custom) profile to the file save behaviour you want. Type the following in the firefox address bar and make changes here :

about:preferences#applications

Then the only setting up you need to do to download the file into your current working directory is :

from selenium importwebdriverfp= webdriver.FirefoxProfile(<your firefox profile directory>)
fp.set_preference("browser.download.folderList",2)
fp.set_preference("browser.download.dir", os.getcwd())
driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=fp)

If you have a typical ubuntu setup, you can find your default firefox profile dir by viewing ~/.mozilla/firefox/profile.ini

In that .ini file, look for Path under [Profile0]

Solution 2:

I doubt you need to define both. Remove the below line from your code

profile.set_preference("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.openFile", 'application/zip')

Also sometime the MIME type of zip file can be different based on the server. It could be any of below

• application/octet-stream
• multipart/x-zip
• application/zip
• application/zip-compressed
• application/x-zip-compressed

So in Network tab check what is the content type you are getting and add that to your profile to make sure the dialog doesn't come