How to export a list to web page text box using selenium webdriver in python?

Question

My work here is to get data from google sheets and put those values in the webpage text box - using python

In my google sheet, I have 450 rows which are comma-separated values. I need put all the 450 rows data into the webpage text box using selenium send.key().

##getting data from google sheets.

scope = ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive']

credentials = ServiceAccountCredentials.from_json_keyfile_name('json',scope)

client = gspread.authorize(credentials)

workbook = client.open_by_url("https://docs.googlesheet") # using google sheet here
sheet1 = workbook.worksheet("Sheet1")
##converted sheet1 data into a dataframe called dera.
dera = gd.get_as_dataframe(sheet1, evaluate_formulas=True, skiprows=0, has_header=True)
##from dera dataframe reading 'names' column and removing null values.
del = dera[['names']].dropna()
##Converted my dataframe into list- I have read it will be easy to put list(z) values in send keys
z = del['names'].values.tolist()

Selenium code:

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="/Users/naveenbabudadla/Documents/automation/chromedriver")

driver.get("https://google.com/") # using google.com as example

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[text()='Maximum 5000 names'] /..//textarea").send_keys(z) ## got stuck here.
time.sleep(2)

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not able to define "z" to selenium send keys correctly.

Can someone help me with this?

Answer 1

So let's forget about whole code before z = del['names'].values.tolist() and assume it works, you could change del name to some other name as del is a build in symbol in python. But if it works then it wokrs. So it seems that z is some list, let's say it's a list of strings then it would look like ['value1', 'value2'] . If you want to send it to your browser as is you should change it to string with str(z) . Perhaps you want to send some value of your list then you chould send z[0] . But still all of these are my quesses, you should provide exact stacktrace of your errror.