How to use chrome webdriver in selenium to download files in python?

Question

Based on the posts here and here I am trying to use a chrome webdriver in selenium to be able to download a file. Here is the code so far

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options

chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-extensions")
chrome_options.add_experimental_option("profile.default_content_settings.popups", 0)
chrome_options.add_experimental_option("download.prompt_for_download", "false")
chrome_options.add_experimental_option("download.default_directory", "/tmp")

driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options)

But this alone results in the following error:

WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: cannot parse capability: chromeOptions
from unknown error: unrecognized chrome option: download.default_directory
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.24.417424 (c5c5ea873213ee72e3d0929b47482681555340c3),platform=Linux 4.10.0-37-generic x86_64)

So how to fix this? Do I have to use this 'capability' thing? If so, how exactly?

Answer 1

Try this. Executed on windows

(How to control the download of files with Selenium Python bindings in Chrome)

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options

options = Options()
options.add_experimental_option("prefs", {
  "download.default_directory": r"C:UsersxxxdownloadsTest",
  "download.prompt_for_download": False,
  "download.directory_upgrade": True,
  "safebrowsing.enabled": True
})