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Selenium with Chromedriver doesn't download files

Hi! i have a question. Selenium was working fine downloading files for almost 5 months, but recently it start doesn't downloading files to my folder, Need help please!

clau2020 | 38 posts | June 28, 2021, 5:27 p.m. | permalink

I tried chrome_options.add_experimental_option( "prefs", { "download.default_directory": "/home/clau2020/Downloads" } but nothing happened

clau2020 | 38 posts | June 28, 2021, 5:28 p.m. | permalink

If it has recently stopped, make sure that the site that you're downloading from hasn't changed in a way that is causing the downloads to fail.

Staff glenn | 9498 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | June 28, 2021, 6:08 p.m. | permalink

I'm sure it works because i tried mannually and Google Colab

clau2020 | 38 posts | June 28, 2021, 6:36 p.m. | permalink

What error do you get?

Staff fjl | 4352 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | June 29, 2021, 9:21 a.m. | permalink

There is no error, it just doesn't download the file that before does

clau2020 | 38 posts | June 30, 2021, 2:51 p.m. | permalink

Try adding code to do a snapshot of the page that you're getting when you expect the download to happen; perhaps the site will tell you what the problem is there. If your Selenium webdriver is in a variable called browser, then the code to do a snapshot looks like this:

browser.get_screenshot_as_file(filename)

...where filename is something like "mysnapshot.png".

Staff giles | 11800 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | June 30, 2021, 5:03 p.m. | permalink