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 by [Bernardas Alisauskas](https://scrapfly.io/blog/author/bernardas) Dec 05, 2022 1 min read [\#playwright](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/playwright) 

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To download files using Playwright we can either find the download button/link using the locator function and then click it or we can download it using HTTP client like `httpx` or `requests` in Python:

python```python
from pathlib import Path
from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright
import httpx  # or import requests

def download_file_with_playwright():
    with sync_playwright() as pw:
        browser = pw.chromium.launch(headless=False)
        context = browser.new_context(viewport={"width": 1920, "height": 1080})

        page = context.new_page()
        page.goto('https://httpbin.dev/html')

        # we can either click the download button using locator:
        file = page.locator('a')
        file.click()

        # or we can download the file manually which is more flexible and faster
        url = file.get_attribute('href')
        response = httpx.get(url)
        Path('file.txt').write_bytes(response.content)
```





 

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