A problem with downloading a file with Python

Question

I try to automatically download a file by clicking on a link on the webpage. After clicking on the link, I get the 'File Download' Window dialog with 'Open', 'Save' and 'Cancel' buttons. I would like to click the Save button.

I use watsup library in the following way:

from watsup.winGuiAuto import *

optDialog = findTopWindow(wantedText="File Download")

SaveButton = findControl(optDialog,wantedClass="Button", wantedText="Save")

clickButton(SaveButton)

For some reason it does not work. The interesting thing is that exactly the same code works perfectly to click on 'Cancel' button, however it refuses to work with 'Save' or 'Open'.

Anybody knows what I should do?

Thank you very much, Sasha

Answer 1

It's possible that the save button is not always enabled. While it may look to your eye that it is, a program might see an initial state that you're missing. Check it's state and wait until it's enabled.

[EDIT] But it's possible that Robert is right and the dialog will just ignore you for security reasons. In this case, I suggest to use BeautifulSoup to parse the HTML, extract the URL and download the file in Python using the urllib2 module.