How to fix Upload image to twitter with Selenium (Python)

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Currently i am trying to upload a image to Twitter for my reply bot. The current code i have gives no errors but it also doesn't attach the image. I've tried many approaches but i can't get it. Here is my current code.

    bot = self.bot
    bot.find_element_by_class_name('Icon--reply').click()
    time.sleep(6) 
    bot.find_element_by_css_selector('input.file-input').send_keys(r'F:\Programming\Python\Tweet Bot\Videos\broom.jpg')

Here's a screenshot of the tweet i am using this snippet of code on. https://i.sstatic.net/UvoJf.png

Can you provide your code

SeleniumUser
– SeleniumUser

2019-11-09 21:13:35 +00:00
Commented Nov 9, 2019 at 21:13 — SeleniumUser
– SeleniumUser, Commented Nov 9, 2019 at 21:13
Updated the threads code

Bryan Reasonable Man Adams
– Bryan Reasonable Man Adams

2019-11-09 22:25:01 +00:00
Commented Nov 9, 2019 at 22:25 — Bryan Reasonable Man Adams
– Bryan Reasonable Man Adams, Commented Nov 9, 2019 at 22:25

CEH · Accepted Answer · 2019-11-11 15:35:04Z

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You probably need to execute JavaScript on the file input element to reveal it before you can send keys to it.

element = bot.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@type='file']")

bot.execute_script("arguments[0].style.display = 'block';", element)

element.send_keys(filePath)

edited Nov 11, 2019 at 15:35

answered Nov 9, 2019 at 23:09

CEH

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Bryan Reasonable Man Adams Over a year ago

Thanks for the pointer, i tried the code above but nothing happens it still just runs with no error or desired result. Here's the code for the function bot = self.bot bot.find_element_by_class_name('Icon--reply').click() time.sleep(6) filePath = r'F:\Programming\Python\Tweet Bot\Videos\broom.jpg' element = bot.find_element_by_css_selector('input.file-input') bot.execute_script("arguments[0].style.display = 'block';", element) time.sleep(1) element.send_keys(filePath)

CEH Over a year ago

@BryanReasonableManAdams I believe there was an error in the locator strategy used. I've updated the locator strategy after looking at the HTML on the page link you provided. Give this a try, and let me know if it works.

Bryan Reasonable Man Adams Over a year ago

Tried it and it still doesn't work i have a hunch that it could be that i have a extension which forces twitter to be the old theme. Its called GoodTwitter. I did this so i could fish out tweet IDs. Here are two screen shots. One of my function and one of the HTML for the button i'm trying to get. i.imgur.com/dpM6kfq.png i.imgur.com/fO9LBVS.png

CEH Over a year ago

The locator strategy matches up with the HTML on the page -- not sure why the issue is happening. The extension shouldn't affect this, but it might. Twitter is pretty advanced, so they probably have a lot of their functionality locked down to limit bot activity.

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