How to upload multiple files using SendKeys Selenium

Question

I have an element with following HTML:

<input type="file" name="upload" value="[]" id="upload1" class="upload">

To the best of my understanding its value is an array/list and it's supposed to store uploaded files paths (multiple files are allowed).

I use following code to upload ONE file:

.FindElementById("upload1").SendKeys ("C:\file1.txt")

and it works just fine. However, i need to upload multiple files but I do not get how to populate the array with multiple filepaths using SendKeys.

I use vba to automated data entry from within excel.

Are you sure? If input field doesn't have boolean @multiple then it probably doesn't support uploading multiple files at the time — JaSON
– JaSON, Commented Feb 5, 2021 at 16:04

undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2022-02-25 20:17:37Z

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To upload multiple files you can construct the character string adding all the absolute path of the files seperated by \n as follows:

.FindElementById("upload1").SendKeys("C:/TextFile1.txt \n C:/TextFile2.txt \n C:/TextFile3.txt");

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edited Feb 25, 2022 at 20:17

answered Feb 5, 2021 at 21:49

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Amel Islamovic Over a year ago

Hii, this is not working for some reason, I even tried like this

selenium.common.exceptions.InvalidArgumentException: Message: File not found: file:///C:/Users/amel.islamovic_bbm/Desktop/projects/twitter-bot/results/haber/1711027971111124992.png \n file:///C:/Users/amel.islamovic_bbm/Desktop/projects/twitter-bot/results/haber/1711027975989207040.png

, any help?

DLWLRMA · Accepted Answer · 2024-12-06 01:16:22Z

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@undetected-selenium answer works for me but i used join() function instead of string concatenation to solve the File not found exception.

file_paths = [] #array of file paths
combined_paths = "\n".join(file_paths)
driver.FindElementById("upload1").send_keys(combined_paths)

answered Dec 6, 2024 at 1:16

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