Js-file-download doesnt work with electron

Active Oldest Votes. How to speed downloading up! I wanted it to work like idm. And how to pause and resume. The thing is, I have to call the API from the renderer page, so I have to pass messages and things like that.

When I called. I implemented this code, But I need to give the local computer folder path from which I need to download the files.

It gives me error "cannot read property 'get typeof null ". Can you please help! I am also facing the same problem and thanks to you. How do I get through this? To allow a user to download a file in an Electron application, you need to do the following: Get either the default session or the session of the user from the partition.

See Session Once you have an instance of the session object, you can then listen for events like will-download which is emitted on Session object when the user clicks on a link to download a file and the file is going to be downloaded.

You have 2 choices regarding that: You can either ask the user to set the download location Default behavior You can set the download location for the file using item object, that you get from the event will-download. Use the method setSavePath on the item object. Akshay Anurag Akshay Anurag 1 1 gold badge 6 6 silver badges 27 27 bronze badges. FearGannicus FearGannicus 4 4 silver badges 15 15 bronze badges.

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. A print dialog properly opens but nothing is produced. According to the releases notes this change was not pushed in 5. Just in case this helps someone, the only stable version which works with printing is v3. Actually this is an umbrella issue covering many more specific problems and without a chance to test this fix I'm very spectical that it fixes all of them.

These issues have been dragging for quite a while and it's obvious that prining has a very low priority in the development plans. We are also stuck with v3. Same here stuck on v3 because silent printing still does not work correctly on any newer version. JonaMX v5. Thanks codebytere I'll test this out and let you know how it went. Just tested our POS with v6. Just waiting for either the fixes for PR to make it to v6 or a stable release of v7. I appreciate the hard work of everyone that addressed the issues.

Thank you! Looking forward to ditching v3 for good. Don't know if this is the right place to add this but printBackground: true seems to be completely ignored inside webContents.

We also meet the same problem under v5. I test the beta and it works. Thank you very much. Hey folks - i still monitor this issue so if you see printing issues please amalgamate them here so i can continue to chip away at printing problems!

I now in electron 8. My workaround is by using printhtml. Still not perfect for my printing job and that might be a deal-breaker to some people. With all the electron versions since v2, up to 8beta. I can see this in dev and prod mode on Windows 10 ans MacOS whatever the newest version is.

That too is bereft of background colors. Edit: I never tried the css trick in electron. Just learned it a few weeks ago in a web project. I guess it works in electron too. But it would be nice if printBackground: true would work as advertised.

I ran into an issue when calling window. I also tried to pass the options, but it didn't help. Here is my example code. Viewed 1k times. How am I supposed to do download the file sent over from the URL?

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Lorenz Henk Lorenz Henk 3 3 silver badges 12 12 bronze badges. Why wouldn't window. When I paste the url in my browser I have it immediately downloads the file, but doesn't work when I do it from my electron App — Gagan Ganapathy Sudhir Ajjikut.

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