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The last time I tried headless Chrome, file downloads were a PITA. Has anyone tried downloads with Chromeless?

Other than taking a screenshot and evaluating JS code in the context of Chrome and returning JSON, we haven't yet implemented any file-download features. But it might be possible for us to implement something. Would you mind creating an issue here describing your use case so we can discuss it further? https://github.com/graphcool/chromeless/issues/new

By design, headless Chrome disables file downloads. This is being tracked at this issue to offer a way to enable that, and the issue seems to be moving along =) https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=696481

EDIT - above is assuming downloading a file by simulating a click event to perform the download. there may be other workarounds by script injection etc to use XMLHttpRequest() for downloading a resource directly.

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