Selenium: How can I get the link for downloads that started automatically?

Question

I am using selenium to automate some downloading tasks, but some pages start the downloads automatically and I need to know the links of those downloads during or after the download and the link is not available in the page.

How can I get the URL of the files that started downloading automatically?

Is what you are looking for not in the `onload` event of the page? — JeffC, Oct 15 '15 at 17:48
@JeffC I was unable to find where the URL is in the HTML or the JS code, maybe its generated on server side and the JS code just fetches it. — Eduard Florinescu, Oct 16 '15 at 06:18

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 16 '15 at 07:55

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If you are using Chrome to run your selenium scripts you can just navigate to the chrome://downloads/ and get the latest download file's URL.

Or you can fire a Ctrl+J keyboard action to the browser using java robot classes and open the tab.

(Chrome downloads page is a html page and you can capture elements in it)

answered Oct 16 '15 at 07:55

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The `chrome://downloads` changed and the page contains a lot of shadow root elements to work around that check this answer https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28911799/accessing-elements-in-the-shadow-dom/37250674#37250674 – Eduard Florinescu May 16 '16 at 14:22
I'm assuming that there is no way to do it and this is just a workaround, which is unfortunate. – Sridhar Sarnobat Oct 05 '22 at 04:32

Selenium: How can I get the link for downloads that started automatically?

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