Is it possible to write data into an excel file using Selenium Webdriver

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I want to know is it possible to write data into an excel file using Selenium Webdriver?
May 8, 2019 in Selenium by Simran
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Hi Simran, if you want to directly write data into an excel sheet using Selenium, that won't be possible. But you can use Apache POI to write data into a sheet. For reference, you can check this code snippet which is writing data into an excel sheet by adding new rows:

package excelExportAndFileIO;

import java.io.File;

import java.io.FileInputStream;

import java.io.FileOutputStream;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFWorkbook;

import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Cell;

import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Row;

import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Sheet;

import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Workbook;

import org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFWorkbook;

public class WriteExcelFileDemo {

    public void writeExcel(String filePath,String fileName,String sheetName,String[] dataToWrite) throws IOException{

        //Create an object of File class to open xlsx file

        File file =    new File(filePath+"\\"+fileName);

        //Create an object of FileInputStream class to read excel file

        FileInputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream(file);

        Workbook inputWorkbook= null;

        //Find the file extension by splitting  file name in substring and getting only extension name

        String fileExtensionName = fileName.substring(fileName.indexOf("."));

        //Check condition if the file is xlsx file

        if(fileExtensionName.equals(".xlsx")){

        //If it is xlsx file then create object of XSSFWorkbook class

        inputWorkbook = new XSSFWorkbook(inputStream);

        }

        //Check condition if the file is xls file

        else if(fileExtensionName.equals(".xls")){

            //If it is xls file then create object of XSSFWorkbook class

            inpputWorkbook = new HSSFWorkbook(inputStream);

        }    

    //Read excel sheet by sheet name    

    Sheet sheet = inputWorkbook.getSheet(sheetName);

    //Get the current count of rows in excel file

    int rowCount = sheet.getLastRowNum()-sheet.getFirstRowNum();

    //Get the first row from the sheet

    Row row = sheet.getRow(0);

    //Create a new row and append it at last of sheet

    Row newRow = sheet.createRow(rowCount+1);

    //Create a loop over the cell of newly created Row

    for(int j = 0; j < row.getLastCellNum(); j++){

        //Fill data in row

        Cell cell = newRow.createCell(j);

        cell.setCellValue(dataToWrite[j]);

    }

    //Close input stream

    inputStream.close();

    //Create an object of FileOutputStream class to create write data in excel file

    FileOutputStream outputStream = new FileOutputStream(file);

    //write data in the excel file

    inputWorkbook.write(outputStream);

    //close output stream

    outputStream.close();
	
    }

    public static void main(String...strings) throws IOException{

        //Create an array with the data in the same order in which you expect to be filled in excel file

        String[] valueToWrite = {"Miss. Abha","Bangalore"};

        //Create an object of current class

        WriteExcelFileDemo objExcelFile = new WriteExcelFileDemo();

        //Write the file using file name, sheet name and the data to be filled

        objExcelFile.writeExcel(System.getProperty("user.dir")+"\\src\\excelExportAndFileIO","ExportExcel.xlsx","ExcelDemo",valueToWrite);

    }

}
answered May 8, 2019 by Abha
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