How to get value the link from the server when the download button is clicked using selenium Python

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I want to get the link from the server when the download button is clicked.

HTML

<div class="limit_down">
      <a href="javascript:;" class="down_t" onclick="env.downloadVideo(35678);return false;">
        
        Download
      </a>
    </div>

I'm using Selenium Chrome in Python.

Please just help me. Thanks

What I have tried:

Using selenium Python

Python

content = driver.find_element(
                By.XPATH, '//a[@class="down_t"]').get_attribute("value")

Posted 29-Jun-22 20:07pm

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Updated 2-Jul-22 18:32pm

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Member 15678123 · Answer 1 · 2022-07-02T18:32:00

Solution 1

Should be

content = driver.find_element(
                By.XPATH, '//a[@class="down_t"]').get_attribute("value")

Posted 2-Jul-22 18:32pm

Member 15678123

Updated 2-Jul-22 23:51pm

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Member 14365635 3-Jul-22 5:47am

'WebElement' object has no attribute 'getAttribute'

Member 15678123 3-Jul-22 5:51am

updated the code

Member 14365635 3-Jul-22 5:56am

I tried before and return value is None

Member 14365635 3-Jul-22 5:57am

This is the website I'm working on:

https://lovepik.com/video-46749/rainy-ground.html

Member 14365635 3-Jul-22 6:02am

When I try:
video_content = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//a[@class="down_t"]').click()

IDM Download software caught the link like this:

https://proxy-vip.lovepik.com/vfiles/video/05/96/21/a_b6UvDGkEAUXI1555059621.mp4?auth_key=1656843450-0-0-7cf98c32be7ae767c92ec7e5cbdfe08a

I want to get that link to output the Input box