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pythonselenium-webdriveropendialog

Manage Open Dialog in python

Is there a way to interact with an open dialog opened with Chrome in order to select and open a specific path? I was thinking to use selenium but when I open the open dialog on Chrome I only see this coding once the open dialog is closed:

<form style="display: none;"><input type="file" multiple=""></form>

while I'm expecting to see for example a label related to "File Names" (where you can insert the path of the file) or "Open" for the open-button.

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Solution

  • No, you can't interact with the "Open" dialog from Selenium or any web-based automation tool due to security restrictions.

    You can work around it by sending the file path directly to the input element that triggers the file dialog"

    from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get('http://replacewithyourownurl.com')
trigger_element = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//input[@type='button'][@value='Select files']")
trigger_element.click()
file_input = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
    EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input[type='file']"))
)
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].style.display = 'block';", file_input)
file_input.send_keys('/path/to/your/file.txt')

    You can specify the path to the file you want to upload through the send_keys method.

    Take into account that the input element might be hidden, which is why you may see style="display: none". If so make the element visible before sending keys to it.

    *Corrected 😅.