Selenium: upload file to Google Chrome

Question

Is there a way to upload a file to Google Chrome since Selenium RC "attach_file" only supports Firefox? Any suggestion or workarounds are very welcome.

Answer 1

If you use Webdriver, then to download the file you need to use "sendKeys" to enter the path to the file. You need to “skip” the part of pressing the browse button, which opens a dialog box for selecting a file. The Java version that works for me looks something like this:

WebElement inputFilePath = driver.findElement(By.id("filepath")); inputFilePath.sendKeys("/absolute/path/to/my/local/file"); 

Answer 2

Uploading a file is usually a POST request, so you can upload a file without using Selenium; If your site does not need cookies, you need to restore cookies using webdriver.get_cookies () first

A simple example:

 # required package: # http://pypi.python.org/pypi/MultipartPostHandler/0.1.0 import MultipartPostHandler, urllib2, cookielib cookies = cookielib.CookieJar() opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cookies), MultipartPostHandler.MultipartPostHandler) path_to_file = r"abc.zip" open_file = open(path_to_file,"rb") param = { "file": open_file } req = opener.open("http://www.yoursite.com/uploadfile", param) open_file.close() 

Answer 3

Using IJavaScriptExecutor is to change the input field for loading to click so that the chrome driver does not throw an error saying that this element is not clickable.

  [SetUp] public void SetupTest() { driver = new ChromeDriver(); baseURL = ""; verificationErrors = new StringBuilder(); } [Test] public void Test() { IJavaScriptExecutor js = driver as IJavaScriptExecutor; IWebElement element = driver.FindElement(By.Id("UploadFile_ButtonID")); js.ExecuteScript("arguments[0].style.visibility = 'visible'; arguments[0].style.height = '1px'; arguments[0].style.width = '1px'; arguments[0].style.opacity = 1", element); Thread.Sleep(1000); element.SendKeys("D:\\path\\test\\image.jpg"); }