Get Download folder of Chrome from shadow root

[hunsballe (Jes Hunsballe)]

This has been asked previously but I have not been able to reproduce any of the methods successfully when trying to get the Chrome downloads path from the Settings > Downloads tab (chrome://settings/downloads) in Chrome.

1. I tried using an Inject JS Script activity to select the element with Javascript but it will not allow injection to body of any chrome:// pages (<webctrl tag='body' />). Is this generally blocked?

2. I also tried selecting the element with Get Text or Get Attribute activities but I can’t seem to reliably target the element from the shadow root with the UI Explorer or a Selector Editor.

Can anyone help shed some light on whether this is possible at all or if I should forget about it?
Also, are there other means to reliably get the user download path from Chrome?

[ptrobot]

You could test to read the Chrome preferences file and extract the download folder value.

Get chrome downloads folder

[Anil_G (Anil Gorthi)]

@hunsballe

You can try this…These are reliable selectors…Please let me know if you have issues

Loop Now is what you need to run
PepProcess - Copy (9).zip (7.9 KB)

cheers

[hunsballe (Jes Hunsballe)]

@ptrobot, thanks for the idea. I went that route, too, and the path to the Chrome Preferences file can be looked up at chrome://version/ first. This seemed to work as well.