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Asked Dec 13 '20 at 02:11

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I try to navigate through a webpage and whenever a pdf viewer appears, I want to download the pdf file. So to keep it easy in the beginning, I only try to login to the page, navigate to the first page that holds a pdf and try to download it.

The code I used so far:

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_experimental_option('prefs', {
"download.default_directory": "/Users/XXX/Documents", 
"download.prompt_for_download": False, 
"download.directory_upgrade": True,
"plugins.always_open_pdf_externally": True 
})

browser = webdriver.Chrome("/Users/XXX/Documents/chromedriver", options=options)
browser.get('the login webpage')

From here I login and navigate to the desired webpage. And from then on, I don't really know how to get the PDF... Hope someone can help me out here.

Thank you

asked Dec 13 '20 at 02:11

davvpo

Is the pdf a clickable link that opens up? – Arundeep Chohan Dec 13 '20 at 04:06
no. the webpage actually displays the PDF-Viewer – davvpo Dec 13 '20 at 05:28
like here (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45940387/how-to-load-pdf-viewer-from-html2pdf-on-javafx-webview) – davvpo Dec 13 '20 at 05:30
for Firefox, `driver.get('about:reader?url='+url)` shows the pdf viewer. the syntax should be similar in chrome – Charalamm Dec 13 '20 at 08:52
and how will that help me to download the file? – davvpo Dec 13 '20 at 23:29
maybe you can print the file afterwards in pdf by clicking the windows – Charalamm Dec 14 '20 at 01:04
What does the HTML look like for the in-page PDF viewer? - Open up devtools, and inspect it. You might notice that the URL for the pdf is in the source.... From that you can navigate your current or a new window. – RichEdwards Dec 14 '20 at 10:54
No there is no URL in the source... – davvpo Dec 16 '20 at 00:20
ok you might be satisfied with the results of the software named wkhtmltopdf. this works fine with pdfkit – Charalamm Dec 16 '20 at 02:49

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