Download a file with PhantomJs

Question

I'm trying to download a file using PhantomJs headless browser. The button that I have to press to start the download is in a Javascript form. I don't know how to handle the download dialog box and I find no documentation about it.

I need to be logged to perform the download.

Does anyone information about this kind of action ?

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score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 14 '19 at 14:29

Try to put this code in a button click event, or can use this raw code to get it:

var page = require('webpage').create();

page.settings.userName = 'your username here';

page.settings.password = 'your password here';

 var url = "your url comes here";
 var fs = require('fs');
 var path = 'index.html'; //here you can use a format of the file you want .json .txt etc.

 page.open(url, function (status) {
     if(status !== 'success') {
         console.log('Connection failed, page was not loaded!');
     } else {
         var content = page.content;
         fs.write(path,content,'w')
         phantom.exit();
     }
});

Also, check out this link How to download a csv file using PhantomJS.

Let me know if you need further help!

Download a file with PhantomJs

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