Specify download folder in RSelenium

The solution involves setting the appropriate chromeOptions outlined at https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/capabilities . Here is an example on a windows 10 box:

library(RSelenium)eCaps <- list(  chromeOptions =     list(prefs = list(      "profile.default_content_settings.popups" = 0L,      "download.prompt_for_download" = FALSE,      "download.default_directory" = "C:/temp/chromeDL"    )    ))rD <- rsDriver(extraCapabilities = eCaps)remDr <- rD$clientremDr$navigate("http://www.colorado.edu/conflict/peace/download/")firstzip <- remDr$findElement("xpath", "//a[contains(@href, 'zip')]")firstzip$clickElement()> list.files("C:/temp/chromeDL")[1] "peace.zip"

I've been trying the alternatives, and it seems that @Bharath's first comment about giving up on fiddling with the prefs (it doesn't seem possible to do that) and instead moving the file from the default download folder to the desired folder is the way to go. The trick to making this a portable solution is finding where the default download directory is—of course it varies by os (which you can get like so)—and you need to find the user's username too:

desired_dir <- "~/Desktop/cool_downloads" file_name <- "whatever_I_downloaded.zip"# build path to chrome's default download directoryif (Sys.info()[["sysname"]]=="Linux") {    default_dir <- file.path("home", Sys.info()[["user"]], "Downloads")} else {    default_dir <- file.path("", "Users", Sys.info()[["user"]], "Downloads")}# move the file to the desired directoryfile.rename(file.path(default_dir, file_name), file.path(desired_dir, file_name))

Look this alternative way.Your download folder should be empty.

# List the files inside the folderdown.list <- list.files(path = "E:/Downloads/",all.files = T,recursive = F)# Move all files to specific folderfile.rename(from = paste0("E:/Downloads/",down.list),to = paste0("E:/1/scrape/",down.list))