How To Download File Using Selenium WebDriver

In this tutorial I will explain you how to download txt, pdf, csv, excel and doc file using firefox profile. You can write a selenium script to download file, if you know the MIME type of the file that you wanted to download.

Download File Using Selenium WebDriver

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxProfile;

public class Training {
 static WebDriver driver;

 public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {

  FirefoxProfile firefoxprofile = new FirefoxProfile();

  firefoxprofile.setPreference("browser.download.dir", "D:\\download");
  firefoxprofile.setPreference("browser.download.folderList", 2);

  firefoxprofile
    .setPreference(
      "browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk",
      "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet;"
        + "application/pdf;"
        + "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document;"
        + "text/plain;" + "text/csv");
  firefoxprofile.setPreference(
    "browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting", false);
  firefoxprofile.setPreference("pdfjs.disabled", true);

  driver = new FirefoxDriver(firefoxprofile);

  driver.get("reditblog.blogspot.in/2014/12/how-to-download-file-using-selenium.html");

  driver.findElement(By.name("text")).click();
  Thread.sleep(5000);
  driver.findElement(By.name("pdf")).click();
  Thread.sleep(5000);

  driver.findElement(By.name("CSV")).click();
  Thread.sleep(5000);

  driver.findElement(By.name("Excel File")).click();
  Thread.sleep(5000);

  driver.findElement(By.name("Doc")).click();
  Thread.sleep(5000);

  driver.quit();

 }
}