How to automate image upload from my computer to site using python-selenium

Question

Hello,

I want to upload an image on one of the sites. Image is on my C drive. How to automate it using python selenium.

I used following but it's not working

driver.find_element_by_id("button_desktop").send_keys(os.getcwd()+"C:/Desktop/MyImage.png")

Please suggest.

Thanks in Advance

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Answer 1

Hi, please try using following script to automate image upload from computer:

from selenium import webdriver 

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.implicitly_wait(15) 
driver.get("http://example.com/file-upload-page") 
driver.find_element_by_id("id-of-uploadfile-element").send_keys("file-path") 
driver.find_element_by_id("submit").click()

Comments

Thanks Abha,

But its not working. I already tried with this.

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Can you tell what error you are getting?

Answer 2

Hey, this code worked for me:

image_path=os.path.abspath('.\\folder1\\subfolder2\file1.jpg')
driver.find_element_by_id("Id of the element").clear()            
driver.find_element_by_id("Id of the element").send_keys(image_path)

Comments

Hi Rishi, your answer looks pretty good. use of clear method() is also wise as it will remove any previous text written to the web element.