selenium_example.py

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By


def get_browser():
    path_to_chromedriver = '/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromedriver'
    chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
    prefs = {"plugins.plugins_disabled": ["Chrome PDF Viewer"]}
    chrome_options.add_experimental_option("prefs", prefs)
    browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=path_to_chromedriver,
                               chrome_options=chrome_options)
    return browser


def download_file_example(browser):
    browser.get("https://martin-thoma.com/author/martin-thoma/")
    links = browser.find_elements_by_xpath('//a')
    for link in links:
        if link.get_attribute('href').endswith('.pdf'):
            print(link.get_attribute("outerHTML"))
            link.click()
            break

browser = get_browser()
download_file_example(browser)