How do I check if a URL will download a file using Selenium in Python?

Question

I have to visit a list of URLs but I do not want to open those which will start a download.

for url in url_list:
   if (url will not start a download):
      driver.get(url)
      ..................
   else:
      continue

Does someone have a solution for this? thanks in advance for the answers

What conditions have you tried? Have you seen any difference between a regular URL an a URL that will start a download? Maybe the one that triggers a download will contain the extension of the file and you can check if some extensions like .pdf, .mp4 are in the URL or maybe you can check with a regular expression. Try some things, add the code here + URL samples. — lauda
– lauda, Commented Sep 15, 2016 at 8:35
Checking the URLs is indeed a very nice option, I have implemented it and reduced the problem a little bit, however I still have problems when a redirection is involved, do you have any alternative for that? — Neill
– Neill, Commented Sep 16, 2016 at 9:02
Please update your question with details of what happens, and see if is anything specific in the case, maybe the url contains a specific string. — lauda
– lauda, Commented Sep 16, 2016 at 9:09

Mohse Soodkhah Mohammadi · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-11 04:15:17Z

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first you can get url then in java with selenium you can below condition in if:

(String)((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("return document.contentType;").equals("text/html");

answered Sep 11, 2017 at 4:15

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The question is about how to do it in Python.

it must have similar solution in python. I found that and edit it.