Get download location from user browser in js

Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. How can I get user's location without asking for the permission or if user permitted once so need not to ask ever again? Ask Question. Asked 7 years, 1 month ago. Active 1 year, 10 months ago. Viewed 55k times.

Thanks in Advance. Improve this question. Grant 2, 2 2 gold badges 28 28 silver badges 39 39 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. See MDN for details. Get an approximate location country, city, area using an external GeoIP service Many external services allows you to obtain the GeoIP location. Here is an example with Google. Edited on mid December to add more options. Improve this answer. Pretty sure the Google API no longer returns those object properties any more.

MattTheNinja That's true! Google API is now a paid service and this option must be activated from your options Kurt Van den Branden Kurt Van den Branden 9, 9 9 gold badges 65 65 silver badges 78 78 bronze badges. Like I am using this code offline and just have the upper code in my index. So I want to download this file from where its called.

For this I am picking the path from the following code. Whereever my this index. How is this possible? It's not possible because this poses a security risk.

People use fairly real information for their folder structure and accessing the folder names in itself poses an immediate risk. As described here:. Get browser download path with javascript. Most OSs tend to just default to a Download location and this is something the user decides through the Browser they use. Not the website. This will prompt the user with a save file picker where he can choose a location to save the file to.

In the options, you can specify a suggested name and the file type of the file to be saved. This will return a file handle, which can be used to write data to the file. Once you do this, the user is asked for write permission to the created file. If granted, your app can save data to the file as many times as you like, without re-prompting the user, until all tabs of your app are closed. The next time your app is opened, the user is prompted for permission again, if you use the same file handle again the handles can be saved in IndexedDB to persist them across page loads.

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Collectives on Stack Overflow. The headers that are forbidden by XMLHttpRequest and fetch cannot be specified, however, Firefox 70 and later enables the use of the Referer header. Attempting to use a forbidden header throws an error. A boolean : if present and set to true, then associate this download with a private browsing session. This means that it will only appear in the download manager for any private windows that are currently open.

A boolean that specifies whether to provide a file chooser dialog to allow the user to select a filename true , or not false. If this option is omitted, the browser will show the file chooser or not based on the general user preference for this behavior in Firefox this preference is labeled "Always ask you where to save files" in about:preferences, or browser.

Note: Firefox for Android raises an error if saveAs is set to true. The parameter is ignored when saveAs is false or not included. A Promise. If the download started successfully, the promise will be fulfilled with the id of the new downloads. Otherwise, the promise will be rejected with an error message taken from downloads. If you use URL.