I am building an add-on for an application. The clients are paying to view some webpages and download some files out of it. They want to automate this downloading process by add-on. So instead of selecting "Save Page as" and waiting for the download's pletion, they can click the add-on and forget the process. The problem is, the webpage is providing some cookies to the browser. So the best way is File-> "Save Page As" . I want to do it through the add-on. Is there any firefox-javascript way for this?. I used nsiDownloader. But it saves only html, not the pictures,etc. Can anybody guide me in this issue?

EDIT: Hi, This is the code which did the trick, thanks to sai prasad

var dir =Components.classes["@mozilla/file/local;1"]  
       .createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsILocalFile); 
dir.initWithPath("C:\\filename");
var file = Components.classes["@mozilla/file/local;1"]  
       .createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsILocalFile);  
file.initWithPath("C:\\filename.html");  
var wbp = Components.classes['@mozilla/embedding/browser/nsWebBrowserPersist;1']  
          .createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIWebBrowserPersist);  
alert("going to save");
wbp.saveDocument(content.document, file,dir, null, null, null);  
alert("saved");

EDIT: But, still some webpages are not saved exactly as "Save Page as". Those saved pages are not rendered like original pages, they are look like some html example.

I am building an add-on for an application. The clients are paying to view some webpages and download some files out of it. They want to automate this downloading process by add-on. So instead of selecting "Save Page as" and waiting for the download's pletion, they can click the add-on and forget the process. The problem is, the webpage is providing some cookies to the browser. So the best way is File-> "Save Page As" . I want to do it through the add-on. Is there any firefox-javascript way for this?. I used nsiDownloader. But it saves only html, not the pictures,etc. Can anybody guide me in this issue?

EDIT: Hi, This is the code which did the trick, thanks to sai prasad

var dir =Components.classes["@mozilla/file/local;1"]  
       .createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsILocalFile); 
dir.initWithPath("C:\\filename");
var file = Components.classes["@mozilla/file/local;1"]  
       .createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsILocalFile);  
file.initWithPath("C:\\filename.html");  
var wbp = Components.classes['@mozilla/embedding/browser/nsWebBrowserPersist;1']  
          .createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIWebBrowserPersist);  
alert("going to save");
wbp.saveDocument(content.document, file,dir, null, null, null);  
alert("saved");

EDIT: But, still some webpages are not saved exactly as "Save Page as". Those saved pages are not rendered like original pages, they are look like some html example.

• javascript
• firefox
• firefox-addon
• html
• xp

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• I'm not really 100% on this but take a look at CURL – Sturm Commented Jun 30, 2012 at 7:38

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Since you mention that File->"Save Page As" is working as expected, I tried looking through the source code (chrome://browser/content/browser.xul) and found this:

https://developer.mozilla/en/nsIWebBrowserPersist#saveDocument()

Make sure that you shall call this function only after the webpage is pletely loaded (not DOMContentLoaded)!!