I have searched the forums and found some information regarding this, but not quite with the problem I'm facing. I am automating the uploading of files to a website. Unfortunately, the website uses a counter for the id of the "browse" button. Using Selenium and Firebug, I was able to find another way to identify the button. I have exported the script into python to add variables so I can automate. However, the browse button opens a windows popup to select the file. The script is started out like this...
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[#type=\"file\"]").click()
driver.find_element_by_id("upfile_1405369589849").clear()
driver.find_element_by_id("upfile_1405369589849").send_keys("path\\file")
driver.find_element_by_id("upload_button").click()
In this, the upload button is clicked, the popup appears, and it sits there mocking me. I tried using the xpath in place of the id, but that didn't work. I tried the following, too...
driver.findElement(By.id()).send_keys("path\\file")
and tried this...
driver.find_element_by_id("upfile_*").send_keys("path\\file")
I cant seem to get the window to respond, other than it's mocking glare. Any help to squelch this would be very appreciated.
It can´t be done. One workaround is to get the development team to modify the AUT for you. Add a javascipt function into the page that will allow you to pass the filename to the handler without having to click the browse button.
If you can´t do that, I would suggest that you look into Sikuli that will allow you to interact with the windows prompt using pattern recognition (screenshots) of what you want to interact with.
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I am trying to write a program that goes to the following site and downloads the Excel file that automatically downloads when clicking the XLS button on the bottom of the page. To be honest, I am quite new to programming.
Site: https://echa.europa.eu/assessment-regulatory-needs
At first I tried using Selenium to let the program click itself through the browser and really click on the button. However, I think the website detects the usage of automated software and I cannot bypass the disclaimer that appears when opening the website.
Then I read some answers on the same topic where it is possible by using the requests module. However, I could not get it to work.
One thing I think I understood from this anwer was that you need to get the site/server where the data is requested from by inspecting the button with F12 in the browser. I tried this, and thought I had it, however I cannot get the code to function. I learnt from this answer that you need to give the referer as well, bu I think the referer from this file ist only partially written out, as it is "https://echa.europa.eu/assessment-regulatory-needs".
This answer explained the network process more in detail, howver I am not able to recreate it. Also, to be honest i do not fully understand what the API is and how to search for it.
I also found this answer, but it does not work for me either.
So I am asking for help on this, as I think that my HTML, Java, Website, Python knowledge is too tiny to see what I have to change to be able to download the excel file.
Am trying to automate some postings on a couple different websites. Basically fill out my form and upload them to 3 sites with Selenium or requests. The image upload on this site opens a new window and asks you to specify the file path, or you can drag and drop the files. Here is what is looks like.
And without CSS here is what it looks like.
I abandoned requests earlier thinking there was no way I was going to be able to do anything with it. Moved to selenium and can click on the button and open the window but cannot actually place an image to upload in there. I have tried pywinauto and keep getting ElementNotVisible. I am having a hard time looking through the docs to find what to actually do. Where to go from here?
Try the below.
eleBrowse = WebDriverWait(driver, delay).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//input[#type='file']')))
# replace the path below with the one which you want to upload. If you want to send multiple files use comma as separator.
eleBrowse.send_keys("path")
I was just trying to figure out how to get python to see the browser window and read the image there(I don't want to take a snapshot, if possible) process it and then click the relevant button on screen.
As a project I want to avoid selenium. I can't seem to find the correct library or any tutorials for this. Can someone tell me the library and possibly a tutorial?
I am on Ubuntu.
Thanks
I wanted to make a program that will view this website in a window with sound not opening any sort of browser but I can not seem to find any thing what would help me
PyQt Designer should be able to do this. You can tell it what website you want it to go to, and then just either make the window transparent, or make it hidden. The Widget you would use for this is QWebEngineViewer.
As the title says, how can I .click() a button using Selenium, when the button gets "disabled" after using the method clear or send_keys?
Before:
That's the page status when I open it's url... but then right after I run my code to find the textbox and replace it's value, the element gets disabled (maybe by some sort of JS) right after I clear it's content or write something to it using send_keys.
After:
Code:
txt_value = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//input[#id="txtValor4"]')
txt_value.clear() #this disables the button
txt_value.send_keys(str(123,45)) #this also disables the button
My question is:
How can I bypass this website protection and press the Continuar button?
I thought about disabling JS, but the whole website relies on it to produces the requires documents.. wrong alternative.
So I thought about using the button properties to simulate the pressing of the button... just don't know if it's possible, or how I could do this.
Another option was blocking only the JS that disables the button maybe mapping where the command comes from using the inspect element and network tools...
So is there any way to achieve this?
ps.: I can't give the URL because it requires my login data.
Ok, so you can't directly do this through normal means. Selenium WebDriver is made to simulate real use of a browser. It may be possible however to use the execute_script function. (Java Selenium has a built in JavascriptExecutor class, I assume this is python's version.) The execute_script function allows Selenium to perform tasks that a human interacting with a browser can't do.
driver.execute_script("document.getElementById('buttonid').click()")
Or something along those lines should work. Hope that helps you out.
If you don't get any solution with selenium and javascript, you can use Sikuli concept. To click that element, take the image of the 'Continuar' button and save it in resources folder.
String elementImg=Path of the Image;
screen.click(elementImg);
I could bypass this using driver.execute_script("document.getElementById('txtValor4').value = 123.45"), to pass the values into the textbox, so the button didn't got disabled and I could press the Continue button.
Even bypassing this, the result wasn't the expected! The value that I entered was supposed to be corrected by some sort of interest. But bypassing this, the value isn't corrected.
Today the user that asked the program told me that everytime I change the value inside this textbox, I must press the Calculate button.
So, instead of inefficiently bypassing this disable method, I could solve my problem using:
b = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//input[#id="txtValor4"]')
b.clear()
b.send_keys('123.45')
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//input[#id="btnCalcular4"]').click()
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//input[#id="btnContinuar4"]').click()
This way the tax value is corrected by interest and the website generate the .pdf with the exact value that I was expecting.
Many thanks for everyone that put some time and effort trying to help me.