🔒 How do I check if a download is completed in selenium?

[lost silo]

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[wind lodge]

disclosure: I never use selenium. I'm about to just spew ideas

I'd look to see if the browser has a way of "publishing" a notification that the download has finished ... that you can access via selenium

you know the browser generally pops up a little UI thingy that shows the progress of the download, and its text changes from (say) "downloading" to "click to open" or whatever

at worst, you could look for that

or ... maybe you could extract the URL (and cookies) from the browser and do the download yourself, outside of selenium -- i.e., with requests or urllib

I'd think if you're careful, the web server won't know the difference.

[coral timber]

most likely yes

some websites are like so unmonitered they don't even care

[wind lodge]

well my guess is: if this website were that lax, OP wouldn't be using selenium in the first place

[coral timber]

is it google. . . . . .

[lilac stirrup]

they don't have an api or something like that as far as I know, and I'm a beginner. Nope it's not google.

[coral timber]

then try using requests

requests

and one more tip

[lilac stirrup]

yeah but how if they don't have APIs?

[coral timber]

-_-

how frequently are you going to access this data?

[lilac stirrup]

depends on users, could be 20-40 times/hour

[coral timber]

oh well then scraping is a no no

Im sorry I'm out of answers

[lilac stirrup]

sorry for being a noob, thanks for the feedback, can you direct me towards the right direction? what stuff should I read about to replace scraping with the methods you are recommending?

[wind lodge]

depending on the web site, you'll have no choice but to scrape.

[coral timber]

scraping has no alternatives

[wind lodge]

I assume you know that most web sites don't want you to scrape them and that doing so might violate their terms of service, which means, in theory, we're not supposed to help you.

[coral timber]

yeah 😭

[wind lodge]

Since I have no idea what site you're scraping, nor what their TOS are, I'm not going to immediately report you to the authorities 🙂

[lilac stirrup]

don't do that

please

I'm just learning

c'mon

[coral timber]

we can't even guide to forums that explicitly teach you how to do that exactly

[wind lodge]

see above under "not" 🤣

[coral timber]

we are powerless

[coral timber]

let's ban this guy lmao

@long sky

[wind lodge]

and I can't make any further suggestions simply because I never do this, and therefore don't know how (and have zero interest in learning)

[lost silo]

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🔒 How do I check if a download is completed in selenium?