So, I tried the example for firefox and i am still getting the dialog save window for our app.
I am attempting to download an excel file. I enter the page click a button 'Show Download Link' then an 'Accept' button and lastly the link to download the file. At this point the save dialog window opens... Honestly I am only changing one thing from the example. profile = Selenium::WebDriver::FireFox::Profile.new profile['browser.download.dir'] = "/tmp/webdriver-downloads" profile['browser.download.folderList'] = 2 profile['browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk'] = "application/pdf" @browser = Watir::Browser.new :firefox, :profile => profile I did notice the chrome explanation had a full list of profile options, is there one for firefox? Titus, Dan, and anyone else have you been able to successfully prevent this dialog window from opening using this method? Joe On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Titus Fortner <[email protected]> wrote: > The problem with save as dialogs is that they are a part of the operating > system, not the browser. What you can do is set the browser profile to not > check with the os when downloading. > > Using profiles with watir - > http://watirwebdriver.com/firefox/ > http://watirwebdriver.com/chrome/ > > Titus > On Jan 5, 2015 2:53 AM, "Dan Sharp" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> I'm new to Watir... working on a script to automate some browser screen >> scraping. >> >> One page in particular has this problem that I'm stuck on: the page has >> a link that is a javascript link, and the result of the javascript is that >> it generates/sends a PDF to be downloaded/saved. So when I use Watir to >> click the link, I get the Save As dialog, but I have no idea how to make it >> actually click the "OK" button in the Save As dialog. It's not a javascript >> window, so the usual javascript dialog/alert methods don't work. Also, as >> the link is not a direct link to the PDF, I can't right-click on it to save >> it without the dialog. >> >> I tried looking through the source to see if the URL was just hidden, but >> it's not... it appears to be generated via some convoluted javascript. >> >> So I'm stuck. I can manually click the link and get the Save As dialog >> and manually click the "OK" button (I'm on a mac, using Firefox, if the >> matters). But I can't automate it. >> >> Any help? >> >> Thanks! >> >> -Dan >> >> -- >> -- >> Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search >> before you ask, be nice. >> >> [email protected] >> http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general >> [email protected] >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Watir General" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > -- > Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search > before you ask, be nice. > > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general > [email protected] > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Watir General" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general [email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
