How to download excel file from a specific website by clicking a button and using Python?

Question

The link in question is

https://www.de.vanguard/professionell/produktart/etf/aktien/9505/ftse-all-world-ucits-etf-usd-distributing#portfoliodaten

Currently I click manually the marked button in yellow shown in the screenshot. How can I instead use Python downloading the file into a specific folder and rename it?

Answer 1

You can use Selenium. After setting up your driver;

Right click on the button, inspect. Copy full xpath.

driver.get("https://www.de.vanguard/professionell/produktart/etf/aktien/9505/ftse-all-world-ucits-etf-usd-distributing#portfoliodaten")

dlbutton = driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/europe-core-root/europe-core-global-nav/div/europe-core-product-detail-page-component/section[4]/europe-core-market-allocation-container/europe-core-market-allocation/div/div/div[1]/div[2]/europe-core-download-button/button/span")

dlbutton.click()