

If you want to download and save it to the desired location using Selenium Webdriver, then we need to set below Firefox profile preferences - tPreference("", downloadPath) īelow is the example program to download a file package com. Then we can write code to check if the file is downloaded or not. To handle Downloads with selenium, we need to define settings to the browser using Firefox profile preferences, so that it automatically downloads the files to the specified folder. We have discussed uploading a file using using Webdriver Sendkeys method and Using AutoIT Tool in earlier tutorials.

We use AutoIt tool to upload documents (when it is not possible to achive upload using sendKeys method). PUT is used to update / replace any existing information. POST is used to add new information into the back end. GET is used to get information from the back end to show in the UI. Most of the APIs should be one of GET / POST / PUT / PATCH / DELETE requests. The main advantage of using 'chrome://downloads' is that it only displays the files. Validate downloaded files to the grid node by using 'chrome://downloads' to either just check that they did download or do further validation locally by downloading the file to your local machine.

The above code's execution will fetch us the web page after accepting the untrusted/insecure certificate and subsequently print the page's title. REST API testing is not very difficult compared to selenium web driver UI testing. Selenium grid download file example code is shown below. As we know, we cannot simulate OS actions with Selenium. WebDriver driver new EdgeDriver(ssl) - The options now pass to the WebDriver instance to start with the desired settings.
