Set download directory via WebDriver

[Marcel_Holle]

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.

[#2]

@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

[#3]

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;

[#4 · Accepted solution]

@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

[#5]

Hi@johnjansen 

thank you so much, using Microsoft.Edge.SeleniumTools solved our issue.