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A Step by Step Guide to Uploading a le using Selenium

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We often come across scenarios while testing where we have to upload a le. For di erent UI there are di erent ways to upload
a le. Following pointers will be covered in this Uploading a FIle using Selenium article:

Uploading a le using Selenium

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Uploading a le using Selenium

Uploading a le while automating test scripts is no more a challenge. In this tutorial I will be discussing about the most easiest
way of uploading a le using Selenium. In this, we will be using “Sendkeys” to upload the le.

Before diving into further details let’s take an example and learn how we can upload a le while automating our scripts using
Selenium.

In the above image you can see three things:

Choose File Button: On clicking this button we can choose the le we wish to upload from our machine.

Input type: The Input type of the Choose File button in the above image is of le type.

Upload Button: On clicking, this button upload function is performed.

Note: I would be using an example of edureka where we can upload our image by editing personal details. For this, I need to
rst login using edureka account. To login, I will be using my username and password, I request you to use yours to practice for
the same.

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Set the path of the driver of the browser on which the test script will run.

Example
System.setProperty(“webdriver.chrome.driver”,”/Users/ankita/Downloads/chromedriver”);

Create an instance of that browser

Example:
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);

Navigate to the Edureka main page and then Login using your username and password

Example:

1 driver.get("<a href="https://www.edureka.co/">https://www.edureka.co/</a>");
2 driver.findElement(By.linkText("Log In")).click();
3 driver.findElement(By.id("si_popup_email")).sendKeys("username");
4 driver.findElement(By.id("si_popup_passwd")).sendKeys("password");
5 driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id=\"new_sign_up_mode\"]/div/div/div[2]/div[3]/form/button")).click

After you Login into Edureka account using your username and password. Navigate to page where you can upload your
image by editing your personal details.
Here, I am navigating right away to the page from where by pressing image icon I will be navigated to the page to upload
image.

On clicking on the highlighted icon above, you will be navigated to the image upload page.

1 driver.get("<a href="https://learning.edureka.co/onboarding/personaldetails">https://learning.edureka
2 driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id=\"collapseOne\"]/div/div/div[2]/a/i")).click();

As soon as you click on the above mentioned icon, you will be navigated to the page where you can upload the image(as
seen below).
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Now, without clicking the Choose File button we will use Sendkeys to send the absolute path of the image le which we
would like to upload.

Example:

1 WebElement chooseFile = driver.findElement(By.id("custom-input"));

2 chooseFile.sendKeys("/Users/ankita/Downloads/edureka.png");

NOTE: If you click on the choose le button, then you will be taken to your machine window to select a le and then you will not
be able to select a le using selenium. Hence, you will have to take the help of third tool i.e. either AutoIT or Sikuli.
We will be discussing about them in detail in our other tutorials.

After you pass the absolute path of the le with sendkeys, the upload button will be enabled and the image selected will be
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Now, click the upload button:

Example:
driver. ndElement(By.cssSelector(“div[class=’submitbtnsec’] > button[type=’submit’]”)).click();

With this uploading of le is done and now the new uploaded image will be seen in your personal details.

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1 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
2 import org.openqa.selenium.By;
3 import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
4 import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
5
6
import
import
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7 import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions;
8 import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;
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10 public class EdurekaUploadTest {
11
12 public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
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14 System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","/Users/ankita/Downloads/chromedriver");
15 WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);
16 Already have an account? Sign in.
driver.get("<a href="https://www.edureka.co/">https://www.edureka.co/</a>");
17
18 WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);
19 wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOf(driver.findElement(By.linkText("Log In"))));
20 driver.findElement(By.linkText("Log In")).click();
21 driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(100, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
22 wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOf(driver.findElement(By.id("si_popup_email"))));
23 driver.findElement(By.id("si_popup_email")).sendKeys("username");
24 driver.findElement(By.id("si_popup_passwd")).sendKeys("password");
25
26 driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id=\"new_sign_up_mode\"]/div/div/div[2]/div[3]/form/button")).click
27
28 Thread.sleep(2000);
29 driver.get("<a href="https://learning.edureka.co/onboarding/personaldetails">https://learning.edureka
30 Thread.sleep(1000);
31
32 WebElement imageEdit = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id=\"collapseOne\"]/div/div/div[2]/a/i"));
33
34 imageEdit.click();
35 Thread.sleep(1000);
36 WebElement chooseFile = driver.findElement(By.id("custom-input"));
37 chooseFile.sendKeys("/Users/ankita/Downloads/edureka.png");
38 Thread.sleep(1000);
39 driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div[class='submitbtnsec'] > button[type='submit']")).click();
40
41 }
42
43 }

With this, we come to an end of this Uploading a File Using Selenium article. In this tutorial, we have learned about how to
upload a le using “Sendkeys” in selenium. The major drawback with this approach is that we can use sendkeys only when the
type of the input is of le type or there is an editable text box along with the browse button. In such a case, we can give the
absolute path of the le instead of clicking the button provided to choose a le from the machine.

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