How to close the browser after completing a download?

Question

How to make browser closed after completing download?

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

browser = webdriver.Firefox()
browser.get(any_url)
browser.find_elements_by_xpath('//input[@value="Download"]').click()

# The program start downloading now.

# HERE WHAT IS THE CODE?

browser.quit()

I want to close the browser only after completing the download.

Answer 1

You may want to use the below piece of code right before you close the browser.

time.sleep(5)# Gives time to complete the task before closing the browser. You may increase the seconds to 10 or 15,basically the amount of time required for download otherwise it goes to the next step immediately.

browser.quit()

Answer 2

You can use the pause command:

pause ( waitTime )

Wait for the specified amount of time (in milliseconds)

http://release.seleniumhq.org/selenium-core/1.0/reference.html#pause

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

browser = webdriver.Firefox()
browser.get(any_url)
browser.find_elements_by_xpath('//input[@value="Download"]').click()

# The program start downloading now.

pause (10000) # pause/sleeps for 10 seconds

browser.quit()

Answer 3

This is an alternative way I did on C#. Maybe you can use the same technique and apply it on python.

public static string GetRequest(string url, bool isBinary = false) {
    // binary is the file that will be downloaded
    // Here you perform asynchronous get request and download the binary
    // Python guide for GetRequest -> http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/quickstart/
}

browser.webdriver.Firefox();
browser.get(any_url);
elem = browser.findElement("locator");
GetRequest(elem.getAttribute('href'), true); // when this method is done, you expect the get request is done
browser.quit();