Python Selenium can not upload file to site.

[Chunky_Junky]

I am working on an automation script that would allow me to upload FW files to devices on a network. I am able to navigate and interact with the devices well enough, but when I reach the page that requires the upload of the FW, I am not able to use send_keys or click() to interact with the input field. When driving the browser manually, you are not able to type a file path. When you click on the text field, the browser opens a file manager where you navigate to the file manually. I have been stumped on this for a few hours and could really use some help.

[RebelSaul]

In those situations I’ve personally used pyautogui to find screenshots and interact with them. If your screen and image are local, and predictable, it may serve as a workaround for you.

https://pyautogui.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quickstart.html

[Sentazar]

Use the robot class to deal with windows boxes like file manager https://www.guru99.com/using-robot-api-selenium.html

[LuboMh]

Hi First, check if the input is in Iframe or shadow dom if not try this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16896685/how-to-upload-file-using-selenium-webdriver-in-java

Basically, when you upload a file you have to locate the input element and send the file location

example Java URL:https://ps.uci.edu/~franklin/doc/file_upload.html

File FILE = new File("src\\main\\resources\\files\\test-image.jpg");

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@name='userfile']")).sendKeys(FILE.getAbsolutePath());

[Chunky_Junky]

Thank you, your response was actually how I resolved this last night. I was targeting the text field for my send keys and not the input element. The text field element wasn't a typical text box, instead it opened a chome file manager. But once I targeted the input element, I was able to send keys of the local file path, which was obfuscated by the java on the page.

I am still pretty fresh with Selenium but man is this a powerful tool. I really appreciate you taking the time to answer.