Selenium webdriver to download pdf

Question

Please look at the code below ( The pdf is embed in the website) I have to download using my selenium script.

    <embed width="100%" height="100%" name="plugin" id="plugin" src="http://somewebsite/tulip.pdf" type="application/pdf" internalinstanceid="68" title="">

In the above html title = "" empty but when i hover on the embedded pdf download icon this value changes to title="Download" . How to use selenium to change this value automatically and download the pdf. Fyi I am using google chrome and unable to directly download pdf.

See if this helps - https://stackoverflow.com/a/60854430/5885718 — Bhuvanesh Mani, Mar 25 '20 at 17:46

Grzegorz Górkiewicz · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-07T19:35:29.370

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Get access to the download icon somehow:

WebElement downloadIcon = driver.findElement(By.tagName("embed"));

Extract the address of the PDF file:

String fileAddress = downloadIcon.getAttribute("src");

and then:

driver.get(fileAddress);

edited Feb 07 '17 at 19:35

answered Feb 07 '17 at 19:11

Grzegorz Górkiewicz

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But wont the address chenge when i use different file ....the code wont be reusable – tech11 Feb 07 '17 at 19:26
@Anu, it can be anything (no need for hardcoding). I have updated my answer. – Grzegorz Górkiewicz Feb 07 '17 at 19:36
Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: Unable to locate element: embed – tech11 Feb 07 '17 at 21:30
@Anu, it was only an example. You should define your own way to locate this element. – Grzegorz Górkiewicz Feb 07 '17 at 21:39
@Anu how can i open pdf in browser with specific page number – Shaaban Ebrahim Feb 10 '18 at 13:29

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