Tutorial 13 – Download a File using Playwright Python
What you will Learn in this blog:
Download a file using Playwright python
File download path
Code snippets
Download a file using Playwright python
Let us now see how to download a file using Playwright python.
We will download a file from the test website page
https://the-internet.herokuapp.com/download
Let us inspect file ‘LambdaTest.txt’
The expect_download() method can be used to ensure that playwright waits for the download to complete
We will now use the with-as block and within this block we will perform the ‘click’ operation to download the file
To get the url of the file that gets downloaded, we can use the getter method ‘url’
Thus we have
We are printing the url using line#15.
Save and execute, we get the file url.
The file url (alongwith the filename) can be seen
Also notice that the file gets downloaded
So this is how we can download a file using Playwright python.
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 will first fetch the current working directory using getcwd() command in the os package
Store the path in a variable
Create a new directory under working dir
Use the join function to join the 2 directories
Store this joined path in a var
Finally, let us save the file in downloads dir
Save and execute.
The file gets downloaded (can refresh the project if you don’t see the file)
Code snippet
import os
from playwright.sync_api import Playwright, sync_playwright, expect
def run(playwright: Playwright) -> None:
browser = playwright.chromium.launch(headless=False)
context = browser.new_context()
page = context.new_page()
page.goto("https://the-internet.herokuapp.com/download")
with page.expect_download() as d_file:
page.locator("//a[text()='LambdaTest.txt']").click()
f_url = d_file.value.url
#print(f_url)
print(d_file.value.path())
page.wait_for_timeout(4000)
current_working_dir = os.getcwd()
file_path = os.path.join(current_working_dir, "downloads/file.txt")
d_file.value.save_as(file_path)
# ---------------------
context.close()
browser.close()
with sync_playwright() as playwright:
run(playwright)
Thank you for reading!
