selenium file upload without <input type="file"> element

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I'm trying to upload my resume using selenium/python over here , under the Resume/CV Attach part.

When I inspect the Attach element, it shows up as <a data-source="attach" href="#">Attach</a>.

I'm not too familiar with HTML so I've tried finding the element by xpath, using send_keys() to upload the file but it runs through the program and doesn't upload anything. No error messages.

driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[1]/div/div[1]/div[3]/form/div[1]/div[10]/div/div[3]/a[1]').send_keys(info.resume)

I can manage to find the web element and use click() to open the upload file options up but I want to be able to fully upload a file.

It seems like the example online upload when the input type="file", which I've used before and works fine.

Andersson · Accepted Answer · 2018-08-17 05:10:30Z

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Actually there is an input for file uploading. You can use below code:

driver.find_element_by_id('file').send_keys(info.resume)

Note that all 3 file input fields (CV, Cover letter and Unofficial copy of your transcript) have the same id attribute "file", so you can select each by index:

driver.find_elements_by_id('file')[0].send_keys(info.resume)
driver.find_elements_by_id('file')[1].send_keys(info.cover_letter)
driver.find_elements_by_id('file')[2].send_keys(info.transcript)

answered Aug 17, 2018 at 5:10

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help please Over a year ago

That worked, thank you! How did you know the element id was 'file'? I couldn't seem to locate it on the html when I inspected the element

Andersson Over a year ago

If there is a form for file upload then there definitely should be <input type="file"> element. You can do driver.find_element_by_xpath('//input[@type="file"]').get_attribute('outerHTML') to check how it looks like

help please Over a year ago

Hm I see, so you knew that the element id = 'file' because there is an option to upload the file?

Andersson Over a year ago

No. I just know for sure that there is an input node. The attributes (including @id) I can get from outer HTML of element with get_attribute('outerHTML')

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