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Avoid OS pop-up while uploading file with Selenium in Python

I am using selenium to upload a file. This is a problem because the upload button makes a file explorer window appear which I can't automate to my knowledge. How can I either automate file explorer or upload the file directly from selenium? It should select a specific file from a path to upload.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
This is my code:
upload1 = driver.find_element_by_xpath(upload1xpath)
upload1.send_keys('C:\Users\bodig\Downloads\image1.jpg')

To upload a file without clicking the upload button in most cases you can send your file directly to some element on that page.
This will be element with input tag name with attribute type='file'. Not the button user clicking but somewhere near it.
So you can try finding that element with this:
upload_input = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//input[#type="file"]')
upload.send_keys('C:\Users\bodig\Downloads\image1.jpg')
If you prefer using css_selector you can use this:
upload_input = driver.find_element_css_selector('input[type="file"]')
upload.send_keys('C:\Users\bodig\Downloads\image1.jpg')
To find specific element on your page I have to see the web page

Filling out a calendar with custom information

I am trying to create a calendar for a webpage with custom information on it. I don't have a strong enough background in css to build a decent calendar, so I turned to the Google embedded calendar. My webpage has a calendar link to my account, but I want to import my own ical file. This file is generated automatically in a script, and I want to add functionality to import the .ics. I currently use selenium to get to the page (https://calendar.google.com/calendar/r/settings/export?tab=wc) but I can't get selenium to capture the window where I select my file. My next idea was to write the file path to the input section then click the import button but the import tag is hidden and I can't seem to find a way to get selenium to find it. My next solution was to use requests.post, but there isn't a clear url to post to. I am stuck, so help with any of the four problems would be much appreciated!
Problems:
1) a decent calendar with event information that is easy to code in css and html or a calendar that can be embedded and accepts .ics
2) a way to capture the file explorer window to type my own path into
3) find hidden input tag to put file path into (and how to make sure the file is uploaded)
4) find the url of the server that the POST method calls

While I can't answer all 4 of your questions, I can help with #3:
# find the input
input = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[#type='file']")
# execute script to reveal hidden element -- this part might be optional
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].style.display = 'block';", input)
# send file path keys to the input
input.send_keys("C:/Path/To/Your/File")
# verify if the upload was successful
uploaded_file = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//input[#type='file']/preceding-sibling::span[not(contains(#aria-hidden, 'true'))]")))
if (uploaded_file.text == file_name): # file_name is the name of file, like Test.txt
print("File upload was successful")
This code will locate the input element which accepts your file upload, and execute some Javascript to reveal the element -- this works around any ElementNotVisible or ElementNotInteractable exceptions we may encounter. Then, we send_keys to the input element -- it accepts your full, absolute file path to the item you are trying to upload.
Then, we verify the upload, by checking the span element which appears, containing the name of the uploaded file. If this element exists, and its .text attribute equals the name of the file you uploaded (like Test.txt), then the upload was successful.
uploaded_file.text returns Select file from your computer if the file was not uploaded. This text changes to Test.text when the file has been uploaded successfully.
Hope this helps a bit.

How to prevent page updates after load with Python Selenium Webdriver (Firefox)

I'm using Python Selenium to save data into a spreadsheet from a webpage using Firefox, but the page continually updates data causing errors relating to stale elements. How do I resolve this?
I've tried to turn off JavaScript but that's doesn't seem to do anything. Any suggestions would be great!

If you want to save the data at the page in the specific moment of time you can
get the current page HTML source using WebDriver.page_source function
write it into a file
open the file from the disk using WebDriver.get() function
that's it, you should be able to work with the local copy of the page which will never change
Example code:
driver.get("http://seleniumhq.org")
with open("mypage.html", "w") as mypage:
mypage.write(driver.page_source)
mypage.close()
driver.get(os.getcwd() + "/" + (mypage.name))
#do what you need with the page source
another approach is using WebDriver.find_element function wherever you need to interact with the element.
so instead of
myelement = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//your_selector")
# some other action
myelement.getAttribute("interestingAttribute")
perform find any time you need to interact with the element:
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//your_selector").getAttribute("interestingAttribute")
or even better go for Explicit Wait of the element you need:
WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//your/selector"))).get_attribute("href")

What code can I use to download a csv file that requires some steps after logging in to the website?

After some research on my problem, it seems I should use either requests or urllib or both.
So basically, I am trying to learn the code I need to download a csv file from this url:
https://globalaccess.sustainalytics.com/#/tools/0
The way I manually download my files is as follows: first, I need to log in using username and password. Next I have to go to a tab called "Screening" that takes to me another page that has several buttons called "Generate". I click a specific generate button (it's always the same one) among the option to get the excel file. After that I have the option to save the file or open from a little window within the website.
My question is what code can I use on Python to download and save the file in a particular folder?

Use Selenium
https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/
You'll need to download a 'chromedriver' to the same directory as your python script, then use the intro tutorial on the selenium docs site to drive the browser to type/click where you want.
If you use chrome you can right click on any given link/input box click inspect, then in the window that comes up right click the bit of highlighted code and 'copy xpath'. Use the find element by xpath function in Selenium to send keys or clicks to that element.

Python Selenium-webdriver close Open file windows pop-up

I'm using python and selenium chrome driver to click on an upload file button which opens an open file window as shown:
My code uploads the files without interacting with the window. What I'm trying to do is close this window but am not sure how to go about doing this.
I've read various other posts with the similar problem but none I could find really gave me what I was looking for. I understand selenium can't access the window, and I've read I need a different module to interact with it. What would be the best way to do this?

In the end I was able to upload the item directly into the page by finding the upload button and sending it the file path.
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[#id='upl-fileInp']").send_keys("C:/Users/user/folder/file.jpg")

Workaround
You need put inside element of upload the root file. Don't open the upload by button, just insert /root/of/file/file.pdf inside input upload value using Javascript. Remember, that's my workaround... haha