How can I download a file on a click event using selenium?

Question

I am working on python and selenium. I want to download a file from clicking events using selenium. I wrote the following code.

from selenium import webdriver

from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException

from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

browser = webdriver.Firefox()

browser.get("http://www.drugcite.com/?q=ACTIMMUNE")

browser.close()

I want to download both files from links with the name "Export Data" from the given URL. How can I achieve it as it works with a click event only?

Answer 1

You have to find the link using 

find_element(s)_by_*,

 then make a call to click method.

from selenium import webdriver

# To prevent download dialog

profile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()

profile.set_preference('browser.download.folderList', 2) # custom location

profile.set_preference('browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting', False)

profile.set_preference('browser.download.dir', '/tmp')

profile.set_preference('browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk', 'text/csv')

browser = webdriver.Firefox(profile)

browser.get("http://www.drugcite.com/?q=ACTIMMUNE")

browser.find_element_by_id('exportpt').click()

browser.find_element_by_id('exporthlgt').click()

Added profile manipulation code to prevent download dialog.

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