How to download PDF that requires a button click to print

[misterpeople]

Hey, on the website i scrape, I have a button that opens the PDF viewer in Chrome when clicked, there a workaround to do this without opening the viewer or something specially without automating the Chrome Viewer?
Also is i possible to change the file name before saving it? thanks!

[mdmintz]

Set external_pdf to True:

SeleniumBase/seleniumbase/plugins/sb_manager.py

Line 80 in 70b05ff

external_pdf=None, # Set Chrome "plugins.always_open_pdf_externally":True.

[misterpeople]

Thanks, but how do i set it up?
with SB(uc=True, proxy=proxy_url, incognito=True, external_pdf=True) as sb:
I tried this and it still opened the pdf viewer by chrome, I tried also setting it up differently but again it did not work.
Do i need first to click on the print button? im using windows

[mdmintz]

None is the default value.
You have to set it to True.

[misterpeople]

I did, it still did not help it simply opens the chrome print view. Maybe its because im on Windows?
with SB(uc=True, proxy=proxy_url, incognito=True, external_pdf=True) as sb:

[mdmintz]

You have to click on the file link directly to download it automatically when using external_pdf=True. If that isn’t working, then not sure.

[misterpeople]

I click on the "print" button when external_pdf=True and the normal chrome print webview is showing, nothing else is happening, I guess its again bug with windows