需要使用 python selenium 下载 PDF

Question

i am trying to automate PDF downloading using Selenium Webdriver in python

but the problem is the download button was hidden inside a embed tag in HTML

<embed width="100%" height="100%" name="plugin" id="plugin" src="www.abc.com/123.pdf" type="application/pdf" internalinstanceid="4" title="">

and the page would be like this page view before download button view

if i move the mouse over the top of the PDF

after i move the mouse button over the top of the PDF

i need to click on the download button but the element was not visible at first when i try to inspect its element by clicking f12 but when i inpect the element by right clickin on it, it will load the new separate HTML document so i have no idea how to manipulate into that HTML any idea would be very helpful.

Answer 1

Why are you using Selenium for this?

It is easy and efficient with Requests.

import requests
url='https://www.cs.uky.edu/~keen/115/Haltermanpythonbook.pdf'
page = requests.get(url) # get url

name = url.split('/')[-1] # to get filename
f = open(name,'wb')  # make a file object

f.write(page.content) # write data
f.close()

This gives you flexibility to download anywhere you want and is a lot faster than selenium.