save an image with selenium & firefox

Question

i'm trying to save an image from a website using selenium server & python client. i know the image's URL, but i can't find the code to save it, either when it's the the document itself, or when it's embedded in the current browser session.

the workaround i found so far is to save the page's screenshot (there are 2 selenium methods for doing just that), but i want the original image.

i don't mind fiddling with the clicking menu options etc. but i couldn't found how.

thanks

Answer 1

How about going to the image URL and then taking a screenshot of the page? Firefox displays the image in full screen. Hope this helps..

Answer 2

I haven't used selenium, but if you know the image's URL, why not just do:

from urllib import urlretrieve

urlretrieve(url, filename)

which will save the url to the filename. more info here

Answer 3

To do this the way you want (to actually capture the content sent down to the browser) you'd need to modify Selenium RC's proxy code (see ProxyHandler.java) and store the files locally on the disk in parallel to sending the response back to the browser.

Answer 4

Hello,

I was trying to accomplish the same task, but the images I wanted to grab were the size of my monitor (wallpaper) -- so the capture screenshot workaround didn't work for me. I figured out a way to do it...

I've got selenium set up to go to the page I want (which induces all the session goodies) Then I used a program called "Workspace Macro" to loop through the selenium tasks.

Grab it from here http://www.tethyssolutions.com/product.htm -- they have a trial version, which I think works for 30 runs or something.

So here's the progression:

• start firefox
• open selenium and load test case
• start it, but quickly pause it.
• record a macro, which pushes "step" on selenium, then goes over to the firefox window and clicks file->save page as, saves, then stop recording
• run the macro x times...
• profit??

Cheers