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I am using window.location.href="link.mp4" in a userscript in chrome tampermonkey but rather than starting the download chrome is opening the file and starts playing it. I have a file link in a variable and i also use idm if there's any way to trigger the through idm.

tushar singhal
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Did you try download attribute ?

Example Download file when clicking on the link (instead of navigating to the file):

<a href="/images/myw3schoolsimage.jpg" download>

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_a_download.asp

  • if i add this line in the html page then how will i click it using jquery or javascript – tushar singhal Jan 27 '17 at 09:37
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    @tusharsinghal May be using this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8192126/clicking-a-button-on-a-page-using-a-greasemonkey-userscript-in-chrome –  Jan 28 '17 at 10:24
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Try the HTML5 download attribute

<a href="myfile" download>click to download</a>

This opens a "save as" dialog regardless of file type.

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The download attribute specifies that the target will be downloaded when a user clicks on the hyperlink.

<a href="filename.mp4" download>Download File</a>

Try working JSfiddle https://jsfiddle.net/balaji_mitkari/xpu9yrug/

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