Upload Images through Url in selenium Webdriver using Python

Question

driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//*[@id='upl-zone']/input").send_keys("https://ercess.com//images//events//-Blockchain-2019-36613-banner.png")

Is there any way to make that work ?

[ERROR] selenium.common.exceptions.InvalidArgumentException: Message: File not found: https://ercess.com//images//events//-Blockchain-2019-36613-banner.png

When i type url in windows explorer when uploading manually it works — Nitish, Feb 13 '19 at 13:10
I have deleted my answer.Any specific reason to do that. ```driver.get(url)``` also work right. — KunduK, Feb 13 '19 at 13:40

Moshe Slavin · Accepted Answer · 2019-02-14T17:15:34.103

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You first need to download the image to your computer and then upload it...

You can use requests:

import requests

URL = "https://ercess.com//images//events//-Blockchain-2019-36613-banner.png"
picture_req = requests.get(URL)
if picture_req.status_code == 200:
    with open("/path/to/image.jpg", 'wb') as f:
        f.write(picture_req.content)

Then send the /path/to/image.jpg:

driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//*[@id='upl-zone']/input").send_keys("/path/to/image.jpg")

Or you can use the Legacy interface of urllib you will use urlretrieve:

import urllib.request

URL = "https://ercess.com//images//events//-Blockchain-2019-36613-banner.png"
urllib.urlretrieve(URL, "file_name.png")
driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//*[@id='upl-zone']/input").send_keys("file_name.png")

EDIT:

To send the path to the file with send_keys you can use pathlib

from pathlib import Path

# `cwd`: current directory is straightforward
cwd = Path.cwd()
# using "F"string for format you can use: image_file_name = str(cwd) + "\" + "file_name.png" 
image_file_name = fr"{cwd}\file_name.png"
# this print is just to show the image_file_name   
print(image_file_name)

Hope this helps you!

edited Feb 14 '19 at 17:15

answered Feb 13 '19 at 13:43

Moshe Slavin

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it shows me error: Message: File not found: file_name.png – Nitish Feb 14 '19 at 12:00
what are you using? `urllib` or `requests`? – Moshe Slavin Feb 14 '19 at 12:04
i am using urlib.urlretrieve @Moshe – Nitish Feb 14 '19 at 12:07
The file is downloaded in the directory from where i am running but when i am trying to upload it tells me the error above @Moshe – Nitish Feb 14 '19 at 12:19
ok but can i work with relative path because file will run on different computers in different locations, or should i download files in computer temporary folder, will it be a good idea ? – Nitish Feb 14 '19 at 16:18
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@Nitish I am not by a computer... But see this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/918178/8179099 – Moshe Slavin Feb 14 '19 at 16:23
Hi @Nitish I just added the current way to use the path... see my edit... – Moshe Slavin Feb 14 '19 at 17:16

Upload Images through Url in selenium Webdriver using Python

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