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Selenium: Prevent download dialog and download file automatically
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firefox-profile-with-automatic-download.py
# adapted from http://stackoverflow.com/a/25251803
profile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
profile.set_preference('browser.download.folderList', 2) # custom location
profile.set_preference('browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting', False)
profile.set_preference('browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk', 'text/vcard') # type of file to download
# use the out folder of the script path
profile.set_preference('browser.download.dir', os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), 'out'))
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