Downloads folder path

csInterface doesn't provide help for getting the downloads folder.

One has to note that the "Downloads" folder is not necessarily the folder where downloads get saved.

Each browser / app will have it's own settings.

I think the Downloads folder can be defined as the folder that has the pretty downloads icon.

On Mac I think it's location is ~/Downloads irrespective of the user language.

Not 100% sure about it and it would be nice to hear some feedback on that.

Hi Laubender​

On Windows one can read the registry which store the download folder by using exec when nodejs is enabled.

The shell folders entry contains all the handy folders you can check it out with regedit or from cmd do *

Reg query "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders" 

From your js script you can do

var exec = require('child_process').exec;
var result = function (error,result) {
    alert(result.split(/REG_SZ /)[1]);
}
exec('Reg query "HKCU\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Shell Folders"  /v "{374DE290-123F-4565-9164-39C4925E467B}"', result)

* based on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27460275/get-the-windows-download-folders-path-download-shell-folder-in-a-batch-file

HTH

Trevor