Puppeteer download file

Sorry, something went wrong. I am having a similar problems as you described. The '. The download path I used was '. Here is the section of my code that I am running, which downloads the report into the reports folder and then renames the file to remove the '. Then I'm running a separate function that deletes the files afterwards. I had a lot of issues with puppeteer with the website I am scraping and I found that whenever there's an issue, try page.

Also, just a heads up, in the newer version puppeteer the networkidle is no longer an option but networkidle0 and networkidle2 is. Let me know if you have any questions about why I did anything here kazaff or ArturPrzybysz. I just set out to try if this bug occurred to me when trying to download.

However, for me, it downloads just fine in headless and non-headless. Otherwise it's hard to judge what's going on. Here's a script that repros in 1. I'd expect a. One observation: switch to headless: false and you'll get a crash stack trace.

This happens when there's no final browser. Removing Page. Evan Carroll Jiri Jiri 95 1 1 silver badge 6 6 bronze badges. I remember doing this once with nightmarejs, I don't know if that's helpful or not.

The core team decided it wasn't worth including so someone made an extra called nightmare-download-manager — pguardiario. Thanks pguardiario, but that does not help me much, unfortunately. I don't want to switch to nightmare. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. An alternative if you have the file name or a suggestion for other ways to check. Improve this answer. Gustave Dupre Gustave Dupre 71 1 1 silver badge 3 3 bronze badges. Using puppeteer and chrome I have one more solution which might help you.

Anand Biradar Anand Biradar 71 2 2 silver badges 10 10 bronze badges. You need check request response. Sardorbek Muhtorov Sardorbek Muhtorov 39 3 3 bronze badges. This solution can be very easily to auto restart a failed download using chrome's own feature This example is 'single thread' currently, because it's only monitoring the first item appear in the download manager page. TeaDrinker TeaDrinker 31 2 2 bronze badges. Downloading a file using Puppeteer can be tricky. On some systems, there can be issues with the usual file saving process that prevent you from doing it the easiest way.

However, we can use another technique that works - most of the time ;-. This technique is only necessary when we don't have a direct file link, which is usually the case when the file being downloaded is based on a more complicated data export.

There are actually 2 techniques to do this so if one would not work for you, you can try the other one :. We use the mysterious. Basically, it extends Puppeteer's functionality. We can simultaneously download multiple files. Clicking one of these images will take the user to a new page and from there, the user can download that image.

To download the next image the user has to go back to the previous page. This seems tedious. Observing the DOM we can see that these images have src properties. In this next part, we will dive deep into some of the advanced concepts.

We will discuss parallel download. Downloading small files is easy. However, if you have to download multiple large files things start to get complicated. You see Node. Node has a single event loop. It can only execute one process at a time.

This is not performant at all. So, how do we solve this problem? The answer is a parallel process. Our CPU cores can run multiple processes at the same time.