[FIXED] Uploading a picture with a imagebox Python selenium

Issue

Good evening,

I am currently working on a automated bot that uploads ebay ad's (if you want to call it like that).

I am currently struggling to upload a picture.

This is how it looks like and when you press on the camera you need to go through your files and select the picture.

My question:

How can i insert the Picture with python selenium.

Background

If someone wants to take a deeper dive on the html what ever, here is the link to the Website i am trying to bot:

Ebay-kleinanzeigen.de

You need to create an account and press on "create an ad" or something simmilar to this.

It should look something like this:

Thanks

Solution

The most easy and widely used way to upload a file with Selenium is not to click the "upload" button you see as a user rather to send that file directly to some specific element on the page. In most cases it will be element located by this XPath: //input[@type='file']. So if your file location on your PC is something like path = "C://folder/filename.extension" you can simply upload it with the following command:

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@type='file']").send_keys(path)

Answered By - Prophet