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Marcel_Holle
Copper Contributor
Apr 27, 2020
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Set download directory via WebDriver

I'm using Edge v81.0.416.64 to run Selenium Tests using the matching Edge WebDriver, however it does not seem to be possible to set a custom download directory using the "download.default_directory" user profile preference, used in Chrome. I know that there is the option to change the download directory using group policies (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/DeployEdge/microsoft-edge-policies#downloaddirectory), but this is no viable option for web tests.

 

Am I missing something/is there another way? Is this something planned for the future?

 

EDIT: Setting the "download.default_directory" user profile preference works in Edge v79.0.309.65.

  • johnjansen's avatar
    johnjansen
    Apr 29, 2020

    Marcel_Holle thanks for the code, that helps so much. The issue is because you are using ChromeDriver() which is not supported on Edge 81 and newer. We wrote a pretty cool tool to enable this to work more seamlessly here: https://github.com/microsoft/edge-selenium-tools

     

    Basically, it is fully backward compatible with the old Edge browser as well as the new Edge browser to try to help people save time writing new tests.

     

    -John

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  • johnjansen's avatar
    johnjansen
    Former Employee
    Apr 28, 2020

    Marcel_Holle we made some changes to MSEdgeDriver in v 81 that seem to be impacting your tests. Can you share the code sample for how you create the driver() object?

     

    -John

    • Marcel_Holle's avatar
      Marcel_Holle
      Copper Contributor
      Apr 29, 2020

      Hi johnjansen ,

       

      we're using Selenium 3.141.0.0 & ChromeDriver classes:
       

       

      var edgeOptions = new EdgeOptions
                  {
                      BinaryLocation = BrowserBinaryPath
                  };

DisableSpecCompliance (edgeOptions); // force "w3c" capability to false
AdjustBrowserNameCapability (edgeOptions); // Set DriverOptions.BrowserName to "MicrosoftEdge" instead of "Chrome"

edgeOptions.AddArgument ($"user-data-dir={userDirectory}");

edgeOptions.AddArgument ("no-first-run");
edgeOptions.AddArgument ("force-device-scale-factor=1");

edgeOptions.AddUserProfilePreference ("safebrowsing.enabled", true);
edgeOptions.AddUserProfilePreference ("download.default_directory", DownloadDirectory);

var driverService = ChromeDriverService.CreateDefaultService (driverDirectory, driverExecutable);
driverService.EnableVerboseLogging = false;
driverService.LogPath = logPath;

var driver = new ChromeDriver (driverService, _extendedEdgeOptions, commandTimeout);
driver.Manage().Timeouts().AsynchronousJavaScript = asyncJavaScriptTimeout;

       

      • johnjansen's avatar
        johnjansen
        Former Employee
        Apr 29, 2020

        Marcel_Holle thanks for the code, that helps so much. The issue is because you are using ChromeDriver() which is not supported on Edge 81 and newer. We wrote a pretty cool tool to enable this to work more seamlessly here: https://github.com/microsoft/edge-selenium-tools

         

        Basically, it is fully backward compatible with the old Edge browser as well as the new Edge browser to try to help people save time writing new tests.

         

        -John

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