firefox Profile

[msgoussi]

I am using firefox and i tried to use selenium to download this file https://www.imf.org/external/np/fin/ert/GUI/Pages/Report.aspx?CU=USD&EX=CSDR&P=DateRange&Fr=628929792000000000&To=637381440000000000&CF=Compressed&CUF=Period&DS=Descending&DT=Blank

I want firefox to download the file without asking what to do with file, I edited the preferences browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk = "application/xml", "text/xml" but it does not work....

[melissagwolf]

I'm having the same issue

[nandp1]

To download in your working directory try,

file_path <- getwd() %>% str_replace_all("/", "\\\\\\\\")

fprof <- makeFirefoxProfile(list(browser.download.dir = file_path,
                                 browser.download.folderList = 2L,
                                 browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting = FALSE,
                                 browser.helperApps.neverAsk.openFile = "text/csv",
                                 browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk = "text/csv"))

driver = rsDriver(
     port = 4857L,
       browser = c("firefox"))

remDr <- driver[["client"]]

url = 'https://www.imf.org/external/np/fin/ert/GUI/Pages/Report.aspx?CU=USD&EX=CSDR&P=DateRange&Fr=628929792000000000&To=637381440000000000&CF=Compressed&CUF=Period&DS=Descending&DT=Blank'

remDr$navigate(url)

remDr$findElement(using = "xpath",'//*[@id="content1"]/table/tbody/tr/td/table/tbody/tr/td/table/tbody/tr[2]/td/div/table/tbody/tr[2]/td/table/tbody/tr/td[1]/small/a[1]
')$clickElement()

[melissagwolf]

I think that including both of these arguments is a contraction, i.e., you're telling RSelenium to both automatically open and automatically save that same file type:

browser.helperApps.neverAsk.openFile = "text/csv",
browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk = "text/csv"

My problem ended up being the mime types. There are thousands of different mime types that a file can be saved as. These are all of the ones I've had to add for my text/csv downloads:

fprof <- makeFirefoxProfile(list(browser.download.dir = file_path,
                                 browser.download.folderList = 2L,
                                 browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting = FALSE,
                                 browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk = "text/html,
                                 text/html; charset=UTF-8,
                                 text/plain,
                                 text/csv,
                                 text/csv; charset=UTF-8,
                                 application/x-csv,
                                 application/csv,
                                 attachment/csv,
                                 application/excel,
                                 attachment/excel,
                                 application/text,
                                 application/json,
                                 attachment/json,
                                 application/vnd.ms-excel,
                                 application/vnd.ms-excel.addin.macroenabled.12,
                                 application/vnd.ms-excelsheet.binary.macroenabled.12,
                                 application/vnd.ms-excel.template.macroenabled.12,
                                 application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.macroenabled.12,
                                 application/zip,
                                 application/xhtml+xml,
                                 application/xml,
                                 application/octet-stream"))

Note that browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk instructs RSelenium to automatically save any of these file types.