Upload APK with Python and Selenium to web page interpreted as URL

Question

I want to upload a .apk file to Kaspersky's online scanner by using selenium and Python. However, the file is interpreted as a URL when I use selenium's send_keys() method.

The relevant HTML looks like this:

    <div class="container">
      <div class="div-field-home">
        <div class="div-hero-scanner-wrapper">
<!-- ======= -->

          <div class="acenter pdv-1x" id="drop-area">
            <form action="" id="SendForm">
              <div class="d-inline">
                  <div class="tags-inline amiddle file-load-group">
                      <input id="txt-input-01" type="text" class="small" placeholder="Drag-and-drop a file or paste a link here" maxlength="2000" txtvalue="">
                      <a href="#" class="d-inline bt-attach bt-attach-file"><img src="/resources/img/attach.png" class="w-100" alt=""><img src="/resources/img/attach_inactive.png" class="w-100" alt=""></a>
                      <a href="#" class="btn upper small bt-attach-res bt-attach-file">Attach file</a>
                      <a href="#" class="btn upper clr-ff bg-02 small bt-check bt-disable" analytics-event="StartScan.Click">Scan</a>
                  </div>

Code:

kaspersky_base_URL = "https://virusdesk.kaspersky.com/#"

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get(kaspersky_base_URL)
file = "/home/user/filepath"

driver.implicitly_wait(30)

input = driver.find_element_by_id("txt-input-01")
input.send_keys(file)

driver.implicitly_wait(60)

links = driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//a[contains(@href, "#")]')
for elem in links:
    if 'SCAN' in elem.text:
        elem.click()

I have also tried to change the input type=text to type=file. It is changed, but the same error keeps occurring. I think that the problem might be that one has to click on the file attack link for the text to be interpreted as a file. But not completely sure.

Any help would be appreciated!

undetected Selenium · Answer 1 · 2020-02-19T11:56:13.657

Seems you were close enough. To upload a .apk file to Kaspersky's online scanner using Selenium and python you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() while:

Dragging and Dropping the apk file from your local system or
Providing the link of the apk url.

Following the second method of providing the link of the apk url, you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

Using CSS_SELECTOR:

driver.get('https://virusdesk.kaspersky.com/#')
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input#txt-input-01"))).send_keys("https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZspxTOnQpqcuvI0rDAkBsB_Y-gRzIEaq/view/GranthamBuild14022020.apk")

Using XPATH:

driver.get('https://virusdesk.kaspersky.com/#')
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//input[@id='txt-input-01']"))).send_keys("https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZspxTOnQpqcuvI0rDAkBsB_Y-gRzIEaq/view/GranthamBuild14022020.apk")

Note : You have to add the following imports :

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

Browser Snapshot:

Thanks for your answer. However, this solution only scans the URL, and not the file itself. So if I give it the url to a malicious apk it says the url is all good - if I upload the file (manually) it says it conatins threats. — Ina, Feb 19 '20 at 11:49
@Ina This [Selenium](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54459701/what-is-selenium-and-what-is-webdriver/54482491#54482491) is based solution was to help you populate the `` tag with a valid character sequence, irrespective of the validation performed by the website, which is out of scope for this question. — undetected Selenium, Feb 19 '20 at 12:00

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