tauri: [bug] Can not download in front end

Describe the bug

in the browser, we can use like this:

 const eleLink = document.createElement("a");
                eleLink.href = url;
                eleLink.download = `${title} - ${artist}`;
                eleLink.style.display = "none";
                document.body.appendChild(eleLink);
                eleLink.click();
                document.body.removeChild(eleLink);

to download file in front; but in tauri,this function can not take effect.

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Expected behavior

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Platform and versions

› OS: Mac OS 12.4.0 X64
  › Node.js: 16.14.0
  › npm: 8.3.1
  › pnpm: 6.32.3
  › yarn: 1.22.17
  › rustup: 1.24.3
  › rustc: 1.61.0
  › cargo: 1.61.0
  › Rust toolchain: stable-aarch64-apple-darwin

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About this issue

Original URL
State: open
Created 2 years ago
Comments: 15 (7 by maintainers)

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Temporary solution:

import { saveAs } from 'file-saver';
import { save } from '@tauri-apps/api/dialog';
import { writeTextFile } from '@tauri-apps/api/fs';

export const downloadFile = async (filename, text, type = 'application/json') => {
    if (window.__TAURI__) {
        const filePath = await save({ defaultPath: filename });
        await writeTextFile(filePath, text);
    } else {
        saveAs(new Blob([text], { type }), filename);
    }
};

Don’t forget to enable dialogs.

kirill-konshin on Dec 21, 2023

Is there any plan for this being added to tauri still? It’s still not working in tauri 1.4 almost one year after it being fixed upstream (it was planned apparently to be added to tauri 1.3). It’s quite a critical issue for us.

matthme on Sep 20, 2023

My experience of the out of the box behaviour of downloads (Tauri 1.3.0):

On Windows, files are downloaded to the downloads folder. The web view shows a notification. If the file already exists, the new file is saved with a unique name.

On Linux (Ubuntu 22.04), files are downloaded to the downloads folder. There is no notification from the web view. If the file already exists, it’s deleted and no new file is saved.

(I don’t have access to macOS to test there.)

On macOS nothing seems to happen at all. No errors in the console, no file is downloaded.

At least not to this locations:

Desktop
Documents
User Folder ~/

ManuelRauber on Jun 25, 2023

It looks like this has been solved upstream. Has that made it into any releases for tauri? Are there any workarounds?

candrewlee14 on Jan 25, 2023

@FabianLars Would be useful to know if this issue is likely to be fixed in the 2.0 release.

ImageDeeply on Apr 21, 2024

it still needs to be implemented in Tauri. wry#530 just made it possible to do so (by adding new apis). 530 by itself shouldn’t have added any behavior changes outside these new apis.

FabianLars on Jan 30, 2023