Need to Defined Download Directory for Selenium-Wire Driver

[Jonathynlee]

Hello,
I am using the wire=True option for the raw driver on lambda.
The lambda is preventing download required by sw. Is there a way similar to seleniumwire_options that I can change this to the tmp directory?

Thanks!

[mdmintz]

Duplicate of #1557 (comment)

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SeleniumBase creates the downloaded_files folder in the working directory where pytest is invoked. Any click-initiated downloads will go there. It's also used for any special files needed. It also holds lock files to prevent issues with multi-threading. The folder resets at the start of every new pytest run so that past test runs don't interfere with new ones. The folder is hard-coded there to prevent issues. And since the folder is reset at the start of new pytest runs, you wouldn't want to use any other existing folders for it.

There are lots of built-in test methods that are specially made for that folder, such as:

self.get_downloads_folder()

self.get_browser_downloads_folder()

self.get_path_of_downloaded_file(file)

self.is_downloaded_file_present(file)

self.delete_downloaded_file_if_present(file)
# Duplicates: self.delete_downloaded_file(file)

self.assert_downloaded_file(file)

self.get_downloaded_files(regex=None, browser=False)

self.get_data_from_downloaded_file(file, timeout=None, browser=False)

self.assert_data_in_downloaded_file(data, file, timeout=None, browser=False)

If you need files in a different folder, use Python os, sys, and shutil libraries for copying the files you need into a different folder after they get downloaded to the downloaded_files folder.

There's also a pytest command-line option to archive existing downloads instead of deleting them:

SeleniumBase/README.md

Line 673 in 570910c

--archive-downloads # (Archive old downloads instead of deleting them.)

(A copy of those downloads will go into a folder in the archived_files/ folder at the end of the pytest run.)

[Jonathynlee]

I am unable to download and move the file. The folder it is attempting to download to is in a read only directory.

Additionally, I am using seleniumbase raw.

Thoughts?
Thanks!

[mdmintz]

If not using the SB() or BaseCase / pytest formats, then create a downloaded_files directory in the location where you run your scripts.