Tutorial 19 – Download a File using Playwright Java
What you will Learn in this blog:
Download a file using Playwright Java
File download path
Code snippets
Download a file using PW
Let us now see how to download a file using Playwright Java.
We will download a file from the test website page
https://the-internet.herokuapp.com/download
Let us inspect file ‘LambdaTest.txt’
The ‘waitForDownload()’ function can be used to ensure that playwright waits for the download to complete
We than pass a lambda function as an argument to the above method. This lambda function simply performs the ‘click’ operation to download the file. As can be seen in the method description, the ‘waitForDownload()’ function returns an object of ‘Download’
Our code so far:
Next, let us log the url of the file that gets downloaded
Save and execute.
Notice that the file gets downloaded
The file url (alongwith the filename) too can be seen in the console
So this is how we can download a file using Playwright Java.
File download path
To know the path where the file gets downloaded during runtime, there is a ‘path’ method that we can use
Save and execute.
Notice below the temporary path getting printed in console
To download a file at specific location, we can use the ‘saveAs’ method
Save and execute.
Refresh the project. Notice that the zip file gets downloaded inside the project
Code snippet (without file download path)
package com.w2a.pwjava;
import com.microsoft.playwright.Browser;
import com.microsoft.playwright.BrowserContext;
import com.microsoft.playwright.BrowserType;
import com.microsoft.playwright.Download;
import com.microsoft.playwright.Page;
import com.microsoft.playwright.Playwright;
public class DownloadFilePW {
public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
Playwright pw = Playwright.create();
Browser browser = pw.chromium().launch(new BrowserType.LaunchOptions().setHeadless(false));
BrowserContext browserContext = browser.newContext();
Page page = browserContext.newPage();
page.navigate("https://the-internet.herokuapp.com/download");
Download dload = page.waitForDownload(() -> {
page.click("text=LambdaTest.txt");
});
System.out.println(dload.url());
}
}
Code snippet (file download path)
package com.w2a.pwjava;
import java.nio.file.Paths;
import com.microsoft.playwright.Browser;
import com.microsoft.playwright.BrowserContext;
import com.microsoft.playwright.BrowserType;
import com.microsoft.playwright.Download;
import com.microsoft.playwright.Page;
import com.microsoft.playwright.Playwright;
public class DownloadFilePW {
public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
Playwright pw = Playwright.create();
Browser browser = pw.chromium().launch(new BrowserType.LaunchOptions().setHeadless(false));
BrowserContext browserContext = browser.newContext();
Page page = browserContext.newPage();
page.navigate("https://the-internet.herokuapp.com/download");
Download dload = page.waitForDownload(() -> {
page.click("text=LambdaTest.txt");
});
System.out.println(dload.url());
System.out.println(dload.path().toString());
dload.saveAs(Paths.get("temp.zip"));
}
}
Thank you for reading!
