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

Answer 1

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")

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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!