Can't figure it out how upload the file there? It needs to be drag and dropped or just selected via dialog box
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have you seen this, this and this ?Pynchia– Pynchia2015-06-27 09:00:20 +00:00Commented Jun 27, 2015 at 9:00
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Yeah, I've seen and tried alf of those but it doesn't seem to work in case of youtube.MadRabbit– MadRabbit2015-06-27 11:43:42 +00:00Commented Jun 27, 2015 at 11:43
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"Looks like you cannot upload files on YouTube using the typical sendkeys method"
4 years later...
@chandan-nayak: You can, here's a python solution to upload a video to YouTube using selenium:
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.implicitly_wait(5) # Wait up to 5 secs before throwing an error if selenium cannot find the element (!important)
driver.get("https://www.youtube.com/upload")
elem = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@type='file']")
elem.send_keys("C:\\full\\path\to\\video.mp4"); # Window$
#elem.send_keys("/full/path/to/video.mp4"); # Linux
Notes:
1 - Be smart, go slowly but surely;
2 - YouTube max uploads per day is 50, but on the first day is 100;
3 - As of 2019, youtube api is limited to 5 video uploads per day(◔ _◔)
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Luk Aron
Your answer is still working well in window10. currently at most 15 videos could be uploaded at one time, any idea how to pass the argument to send key function?
Elem.send_keys("C:\\first.mp4","C:\\second.mp4") this does not work
Pedro Lobito
@LukAron I'll give it a try asa I've some free time and update the answer if I I find the solution.
Luk Aron
I found it, simply separate the path by a ","
Pedro Lobito
Great! can you please provide an example as comment so I can update the answer?
Luk Aron
seems that I couldn't do so anymore. Maximum one path per time.
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As per the answer here on: stackoverflow Looks like you cannot upload files on YouTube using the typical sendkeys method.
as @Arran said there in the comment section -
Selenium cannot handle file upload dialogs. YouTube uses HTML5 input fields, and Selenium doesn't handle HTML5 elements even in the slightest. As I said, Selenium cannot support this. Selenium won't work here
You shall use the API provided by youtube
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5 years later...
I run into the same issue and found youtube-uploader-selenium package.
As of 2019, youtube api is limited to 5 video uploads per day(◔ _◔)
The description says
Instead, this script is only restricted by a daily upload limit for a channel on YouTube: 100 videos is the limit in the first 24 hours, then drops to 50 every 24 hours after that.
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you may need this give it a shot ytb_up based selenium
https://github.com/wanghaisheng/ytb-up features YOU MAY NEED
- proxy support
auto detect whether need a proxy 2. cookie support
for those multiple channels under same google account 3. schedule time publish
you can explictly specify a date and time for each video or you can set publish policy and daily public count,for example,daily count is 4,you got 5 videos,then first 4 will be published 1 day after the upload date ,the other 1 will be 2 days after the upload date 4. fix google account verify
