Wait for the download to finish with puppeteer

Page.downloadProcess

Published March 22, 2024

javascript, puppeteer
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Here's a function that will wait for a download to finish once its triggered in pupepeteer.

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  import puppeteer from "puppeteer"

  async function waitUntilDownload(page, fileName = '') {
      return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
          page._client().on('Page.downloadProgress', e => { // or 'Browser.downloadProgress'
              if (e.state === 'completed') {
                  resolve(fileName);
              } else if (e.state === 'canceled') {
                  reject();
              }
          });
      });
  }

Here is is in an example

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  (async () => {
      const browser = await puppeteer.launch({
          headless: true,
          args: ['--no-sandbox', '--disable-setuid-sandbox']
      })
      
      const page = await browser.newPage()

      page.target().createCDPSession().then((client) => {
        return client.send('Page.setDownloadBehavior', {
            behavior: 'allow',
            downloadPath: '/tmp'})
      });

      console.log( "Loading download page" );
      await page.goto(
          'https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/electricity_locations.html#/analyze?fuel=ELEC',
          { waitUntil: 'networkidle0' }
      );

      // Query for an element handle.
      const element = await page.waitForSelector('a.afdc-btn');
      
      console.log( "Starting download" )
      await element.click();
      
      console.log( "Waiting for download to complete" );
      await waitUntilDownload( page );

      console.log( "Download complete" )
        
      await browser.close();      
  })()

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