Timeline for I do not understand why my question is unclear
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| Mar 11, 2019 at 11:38 | comment | added | sozigu | It is irrelevant if it is APEX or not. It is irrelevant if it is about a specific webpage. If Selenium were working, a solution would be "use selenium to automatically click the button". It would be a general solution, for a common problem, which would be useful to anybody needing a similar automation. All your arguments about changing URL are totally irrelevant. Obviously the URL constantly changes. It is a given that I cannot predict the URL. There is no point in pointing that. I only spoke about SQL/APEX to illustrate that I cannot predict the URL. | |
| Mar 8, 2019 at 12:13 | comment | added | sozigu | The point, is not that is made with SQL, but that I cannot extract the download URL from the page. I have to click the button. It appears to be an Oracle APEX application, which hides the download URL, for security reasons. I had programmed APEX, so I know how it works: only the database knows the link. A button makes the request, a temporary url is generated by the database, and downloaded. But is not relevant if SQL is used. I only wrote SQL as an illustration of what blocks getting the URL and manually downloading the file. | |
| Mar 8, 2019 at 12:09 | comment | added | sozigu | My problem is not idiosyncratic to that other website. Any person that needs to automate downloads by clicking on a button, and not being able to know the URL for download, would have the same problem. | |
| Mar 6, 2019 at 23:54 | history | answered | Giacomo1968 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |