Downloading zip files using Python Selenium

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I'm trying to download every country's "administrative areas" from this website: http://www.diva-gis.org/gdata.

I'm new to using the Python Selenium package, but I'm fairly certain the code below should at least download Afghanistan's data.

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

profile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
profile.set_preference('browser.download.folderList', 2) # custom location
profile.set_preference('browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting', False)
profile.set_preference('browser.download.dir', '/tmp')
profile.set_preference('browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk', 'text/csv')

driver = webdriver.Firefox(profile)
driver.get("http://www.diva-gis.org/gdata")
driver.find_element_by_name('OK').click()
driver.find_element_by_link_text('Download').click()

I'm able to open other links on the same page using this method, but I can't open the "Download" link for some reason. No error message is shown after running this code. I did look at similar SO posts, but I still don't know what's wrong.

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2 Answers

I recommend it for Firefox

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options

options = Options()
options.set_preference("browser.download.folderList",2)
options.set_preference("browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting", False)
options.set_preference("browser.download.dir","/data")
options.set_preference("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk", "application/octet-stream,application/vnd.ms-excel")
driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_options=self.options)
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