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I used a chrome extension to download files on site, I want to know if I can create a Python Selenium script to do the same action like what in chrome extension? is it difficult?

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While this is possible it's probably not a great practice...
I am not that comfortable with python or python-selenium;

However I do understand that if it's a web driver then there probably is a way to get this accomplished, look around for Python Selenium   file download API on google.

Another aproach would be to make two apps that communicate with eachother - one made with html, css, javascript, php, etc   to find the name of a file on a webpage.

Then message this to python (once again not sure how to do this, it's probably on google somewhere) once the file name on the website and website name are passed to python then put them together with something like this (javascript variable joining in context example):

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var example = pageurl_as_variable + "/" + file_name_as_variable;
some_download_function_defined_else-where(example);
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then obviously download this as file...


Once again this isn't the best practice and you can't make a chrome extension with python due to security reasons, but as described in the example above you could make an app-hybrid and then run this on the target users computer.
There are a lot of ways to do this with just basic HTML and potentially JavaScript so your better off looking into a way to do it that way...

Here's some links to point you in the right direction:
  How can I download a file from a link in HTML?
  How can I download a file on a click event using selenium?
(couldn't find anything on passing messages between the apps in my 5-seconds of googling).

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