How to handle windows file upload using Selenium WebDriver

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I have seen lots of questions and solutions on File upload using Selenium WebDriver on Stack Overflow  But none of them are working for following scenario    Someone has given a solution as following      assuming driver is a healthy WebDriver instance WebElement fileInput   driver findElement By name  uploadfile     fileInput sendKeys  C  path to file jpg      But still I can t find window handle  How can I work on that     I am looking for a solution for the scenario above   Please check this on any of the following websites   http   www uploadify com demos  http   www zamzar com

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The below one had worked for me  webDriver findElement By xpath    input  type  file  and  name  importFile      sendKeys  C  path to file jpg

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There is a simpler way to solve this then what Slanec described  Hes solution works when you are using an English keyboard  if not you will have a hard time trying to  map  the key for special characters   Instead of robot keyPress and robot keyRelease every single key you can use Toolkit to copy the String to the clipboard and then paste it       StringSelection s   new StringSelection  Path to the file        Toolkit getDefaultToolkit   getSystemClipboard   setContents s  null       Robot robot   new Robot        robot keyPress java awt event KeyEvent VK ENTER       robot keyRelease java awt event KeyEvent VK ENTER       robot keyPress java awt event KeyEvent VK CONTROL       robot keyPress java awt event KeyEvent VK V       robot keyRelease java awt event KeyEvent VK CONTROL       Thread sleep 3000       robot keyPress java awt event KeyEvent VK ENTER

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Below code works for me        wait for the window to appear WebDriverWait wait   new WebDriverWait driver  10   wait until ExpectedConditions alertIsPresent         switch to the file upload window Alert alert   driver switchTo   alert        enter the filename alert sendKeys fileName       hit enter Robot r   new Robot    r keyPress KeyEvent VK ENTER   r keyRelease KeyEvent VK ENTER       switch back driver switchTo   activeElement

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Find the element  must be an input element with type  file  attribute  and send the path to the file    WebElement fileInput   driver findElement By id  uploadFile     fileInput sendKeys   path to file jpg      NOTE  If you re using a RemoteWebDriver  you will also have to set a file detector  The default is UselessFileDetector  WebElement fileInput   driver findElement By id  uploadFile     driver setFileDetector new LocalFileDetector     fileInput sendKeys   path to file jpg

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Using C  and Selenium this code here works for me  NOTE you will want to use a parameter to swap out  localhost  in the FindWindow call for your particular server if it is not localhost and tracking which is the newest dialog open if there is more than one dialog hanging around  but this should get you started       using System Threading      using System Runtime InteropServices      using System Windows Forms      using OpenQA Selenium        DllImport  user32 dll   SetLastError   true        return  MarshalAs UnmanagedType Bool       private static extern bool SetForegroundWindow IntPtr hWnd         DllImport  user32 dll   EntryPoint    FindWindow        public static extern IntPtr FindWindow string lpClassName  string lpWindowName        public static void UploadFile this IWebDriver webDriver  string fileName                webDriver FindElement By Id  SWFUpload 0    Click            var dialogHWnd   FindWindow null   Select file s  to upload by localhost            var setFocus   SetForegroundWindow dialogHWnd           if  setFocus                        Thread Sleep 500               SendKeys SendWait fileName               SendKeys SendWait   ENTER

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webDriver FindElement By CssSelector  --cssSelector--    Click            webDriver SwitchTo   ActiveElement   SendKeys fileName     worked well for me  Taking another approach provided in answer above by Matt in C   net could also work with Class name  32770 for upload box

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You have put double slash    for the entire absolute path to achieve this Example - D   images  Lighthouse jpg  Steps   - use sendkeys for the button having browse option The button which will open    your window box to select files    - Now click on the button which is going to upload you file  driver findElement By xpath    input  id  files      sendKeys  D   images  Lighthouse jpg      Thread sleep 5000   driver findElement By xpath    button  id  Upload      click

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Use AutoIt Script To Handle File Upload In Selenium Webdriver  It s working fine for the above scenario   Runtime getRuntime   exec  E   AutoIT  FileUpload exe      Please use below link for further assistance  http   www guru99 com use-autoit-selenium html

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Import System Windows Forms binary to the test solution and call the following two LOC on clicking the Upload button on the UI              Send the file path and enter file path and wait          System Windows Forms SendKeys SendWait  complete path of the file            System Windows Forms SendKeys SendWait   ENTER

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Double the backslashes in the path  like this   driver findElement browsebutton  sendKeys  C   Users  Desktop  Training  Training jpg

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Below code works for me    public void test         WebDriver driver   new FirefoxDriver        driver get  http   www freepdfconvert com pdf-word        driver findElement By id  clientUpload    click        driver switchTo                activeElement                sendKeys                        home likewise-open GLOBAL 123 Documents filename txt        driver manage   timeouts   implicitlyWait 60  TimeUnit SECONDS       driver findElement By id  convertButton

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I made use of sendkeys in shell scripting using a vbsscript file  Below is the code in vbs file   Set WshShell   WScript CreateObject  WScript Shell   WshShell SendKeys  C  Demo txt  WshShell SendKeys   ENTER     Below is the selenium code line to run this vbs file   driver findElement By id  uploadname1    click    Thread sleep 1000   Runtime getRuntime   exec   wscript C  script vbs

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assuming driver is a healthy WebDriver instance WebElement fileInput   driver findElement By name  quot uploadfile quot     fileInput sendKeys  quot C  path to file jpg quot     Hey  that s mine from somewhere      In case of the Zamzar web  it should work perfectly  You don t click the element  You just type the path into it  To be concrete  this should be absolutely ok  driver findElement By id  quot inputFile quot    sendKeys  quot C  path to file jpg quot      In the case of the Uploadify web  you re in a pickle  since the upload thing is no input  but a Flash object  There s no API for WebDriver that would allow you to work with browser dialogs  or Flash objects   So after you click the Flash element  there ll be a window popping up that you ll have no control over  In the browsers and operating systems I know  you can pretty much assume that after the window has been opened  the cursor is in the File name input  Please  make sure this assumption is true in your case  too  If not  you could try to jump to it by pressing Alt   N  at least on Windows    If yes  you can  quot blindly quot  type the path into it using the Robot class  In your case  that would be something in the way of  driver findElement By id  quot SWFUpload 0 quot    click    Robot r   new Robot    r keyPress KeyEvent VK C             C r keyRelease KeyEvent VK C   r keyPress KeyEvent VK COLON            colon  r keyRelease KeyEvent VK COLON   r keyPress KeyEvent VK SLASH            slash  r keyRelease KeyEvent VK SLASH      etc  for the whole file path  r keyPress KeyEvent VK ENTER         confirm by pressing Enter in the end r keyRelease KeyEvent VK ENTER    It sucks  but it should work  Note that you might need these  How can I make Robot type a      and Convert String to KeyEvents  plus there is the new and shiny KeyEvent getExtendedKeyCodeForChar   which does similar work  but is available only from JDK7    For Flash  the only alternative I know  from this discussion  is to use the dark technique   First  you modify the source code of you the flash application  exposing internal methods using the ActionScript s ExternalInterface API  Once exposed  these methods will be callable by JavaScript in the browser  Second  now that JavaScript can call internal methods in your flash app  you use WebDriver to make a JavaScript call in the web page  which will then call into your flash app  This technique is explained further in the docs of the flash-selenium project   http   code google com p flash-selenium    but the idea behind the technique applies just as well to WebDriver

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First add the file to your project resource directory  then  public YourPage uploadFileBtnSendKeys         final ClassLoader classLoader   getClass   getClassLoader        final File file   new File classLoader getResource  yourFile whatever   getPath         uploadFileBtn sendKeys file getPath         return this      Walla  you will see your choosen selected file  and have skipped the file explorer window

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An alternative solution would be to write a script to automate the Open File dialog  See AutoIt    Also  if you can t  click  the element  my workaround is generally to do this   element SendKeys Keys Enter     Hope this helps  Even though it s an old post

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