Page Action | File Download

Use page.download() to download a file to the user's device.

Learn more in the file download guide.

API reference

Function signature

Node.js

page.download(
    file: Buffer,
    filename: string,
): void; 

Python

page.download(
    # Must be either bytes or a bytes-like object (e.g. BytesIO)
    file: bytes | io.BufferedIOBase,
    filename: str,
) -> None

Parameters

Node.js

file

required Buffer

The file content to download.

Python

file

required bytes | io.BufferedIOBase

The file content to download.

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Node.js

filename

required string

The name of the file to download.

Python

filename

required str

The name of the file to download.

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Returns

Node.js

void

Python

None