Chromedriver headless download file

selenium_download_file.py

def new_chrome_browser(headless=True, download_path=os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))):
    """Helper function that creates a new Selenium browser"""
    options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
    user_agent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.50 Safari/537.36'
    if headless:
        options.add_argument('headless')
        options.add_argument('--window-size=1280x1024')
        options.add_argument('--disable-gpu')
        # options.add_argument(f'user-agent={user_agent}')
    if download_path is not None:
        preferences = {
            'profile.default_content_settings.popups': 0,
            'download.default_directory': download_path
        }
        options.add_experimental_option('prefs', preferences)
    browser = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)
    return browser


def main():
    driver = new_chrome_browser(headless=False)
    download_file(driver, 'http://ipv4.download.thinkbroadband.com/5MB.zip', '5MB.zip')
    print('Downloaded!')