Develop Reference

Problem passing file to an input-type-file webelement

How to set File objects and length property at FileList object where the files are also reflected at FormData object?
I was trying to use the hack described in the link above to insert through code the file I want to upload to an '<input type='file', but I am having trouble to implement it.
I am using the following code as a snippet in Chrome devtools Console Panel:
inp = document.querySelector("input[type=file]");
const dT = new DataTransfer();
dT.items.add(new File(['foo'], 'C:\\Users\\MyUser\\Desktop\\SomeFolder\\MyTestFile.txt'));
inp.files = dT.files;
The input text that should display only the file name shows the full path, and when I press the button to upload the file it return an error saying that the file was not founded.
I already check the path and it is 100% right. I don't know much about javascript, in fact I am using Selenium to do the rest of the automation, but this particular subject looks like can only be achieved with js.
Could anyone help me? Am I mising something or did I misunderstood the hack solution and what I am trying to do is not possible at all?

Automate image upload with Selenium but without AutoIt

I have a non-traditional, image upload button on my company's website. I want to have an automated way to upload an image using this button, but without having to use a tool like AutoIt in order to interact with the file explorer.
Here's a sample of this button's HTML:
<button ng-click="onClick()" ng-disabled="readOnly" accepted-types="image/*" on-files-selected="onFilesSelected" allow-multiple="true" readonly="readonly">Add images</button>
It's a bit different than the usual input element, e.g. <input type="file">, and it's using AngularJS. Since it's not an input element, I don't think I can use Selenium's sendKeys() function to input the image's file location on my machine.
Is there any hack or workaround to uploading the image? I was considering things like overwriting the onClick() function to do read from a specified location (this approach doesn't really seem like it's doable), or possibly intercepting the event that opens the file explorer and trying to hack my way from there, but these are all just unsupported and untested approaches to solving the problem.
Would it be possible to do this in another browser-automation tool, like Microsoft's Playwright?

Use JACOB it provides java native interface where you can use AutoIt functionalities with selenium here is a sample I am using it in most of the places like MSTeams,Slack for Automation[Upload Feature] it does the job.
List of Steps you need to do before jumping to the code:
Step 1:
Download JACOB jar
Step 2:
Register the AutoIt COM libraries e.g regsvr32 AutoItX3_x64.dll
Use these in your code
jacob.jar
AutoItX4Java.jar
jacob-1.18-x64.dll
jacob-1.18-x86.dll
Sample Code:
[This Code Interacts with file explorer]
import com.jacob.com.LibraryLoader;
import autoitx4java.AutoItX;
public class Attachments {
public void uploadAttachments(){
File f = new File("Location");
File[] fil =f.listFiles();
//Upload Button Xpath
WebElement uploadFromComp = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span[contains(text(),'Upload from my computer')]"));
uploadFromComp.click();
Thread.sleep(5000);
String jacobDllVersionToUse;
if (jvmBitVersion().contains("32")) {
jacobDllVersionToUse = "jacob-1.19-x86.dll";
} else {
jacobDllVersionToUse = "jacob-1.19-x64.dll";
}
File file1 = new File("registerAutoItDll", jacobDllVersionToUse);
System.setProperty(LibraryLoader.JACOB_DLL_PATH, file1.getAbsolutePath());
AutoItX x = new AutoItX();
x.winWaitActive("Open");
x.sleep(5000);
x.send(fil[j].getAbsolutePath());
x.send("{ENTER}", false);
}}
I hope it works for you.

It is 100% posible with playwright and it is lot simplier then in the Selenium.
// Select one file
await page.setInputFiles('input#upload', 'myfile.pdf');
// Select multiple files
await page.setInputFiles('input#upload', ['file1.txt', 'file2.txt']);
See more on:
https://playwright.dev/docs/input#upload-files

Pycurl javascript

I created a python 3 script that allows me to search on a search engine (DuckDuckGo), get the HTML source code and write it in a textfile.
import pycurl
from io import BytesIO
buffer = BytesIO()
c = pycurl.Curl()
c.setopt(c.URL, 'https://duckduckgo.com/?q=test')
c.setopt(c.WRITEDATA, buffer)
c.setopt(c.FOLLOWLOCATION, True)
c.perform()
c.close()
body = buffer.getvalue()
with open("output.htm", "w") as text_file:
text_file.write(str(body))
print(body.decode('iso-8859-1'))
That part of the code is working properly. However, when I try to open the output.htm file containing the HTML source code of the search engine, I don't get anything (I get an input with my search topic written inside). I would like to have the same HTML source code that I would get by running curl https://duckduckgo.com/?q=test on my terminal.

Duckduckgo's html pages uses javascript to load their search result into their html markups, so curl or PyCurl will not be able to get the same html content you'd see in a browser since curl/pycurl merely fetches internet resources but does not provide any javascript processing.
Use https://duckduckgo.com/api instead of scraping to find search results in their servers/databases.

set file attribute filesystemobject javascript

I have created a file as part of a script on a network drive and i am trying to make it hidden so that if the script is run again it should be able to see the file and act on the information contained within it but i am having trouble doing this. what i have so far is:
function doesRegisterExist(oFs, Date, newFolder) {
dbEcho("doesRegisterExist() triggered");
sExpectedRegisterFile = newFolder+"\\Register.txt"
if(oFs.FileExists(sExpectedRegisterFile)==false){
newFile = oFs.OpenTextFile(sExpectedRegisterFile,8,true)
newFile.close()
newReg = oFs.GetFile(sExpectedRegisterFile)
dbEcho(newReg.Attributes)
newReg.Attributes = newReg.Attributes+2
}
}
Windows Script Host does not actually produce an error here and the script runs throgh to competion. the only guides i have found online i have been attempting to translate from VBscript with limited success.
variables passed to this function are roughly declared as such
var oFs = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
var Date = "29-12-2017"
var newFolder = "\\\\File-Server\\path\\to\\folder"
I know ActiveX is a dirty word to a lot of people and i should be shot for even thinking about using it but it really is a perfect fit for what i am trying to do.
Please help.

sExpectedRegisterFolder resolves to \\\\File-Server\\path\\to\\folder\\Register which is a folder and not a file.
I get an Error: file not found when I wrap the code into a try/catch block.
I tested the code on a text file as well, and there it works.
So you're either using the wrong method if you want to set the folder to hidden.
Or you forgot to include the path to the text if you want to change a file to hidden.
( Edit: Or if Register is the name of the file, add the filetype .txt ? )
If you change GetFile to GetFolder as described in https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6tkce7xa(v=vs.84).aspx
the folder will get hidden correctly.

Path to file won't work

I am currently trying to get a path to a file to work but it just won't let me.
I'm working on a virtual directory so the path will be dynamic.
this is how my Directories are set up:
WebServices
->LiveScanServ.asmx(this is the file I want)
LiveScan
->ScanFolders.aspx
My browser Url looks like :http://localhost:43234/dynamicPart/Home.aspx#
inside my ScanFolders.aspx I am making a call to the file LivescanServ.asmx however it just won't find it. This is what I have so far:
<Services><asp:ServiceReference Path="~/WebServices/LiveScanService.asmx" /></Services>
but when I run it, it gives me a 404 error(Not Found).
Any ideas?
edit: this is my javascript for calling ScanFolders.aspx:
function loadLiveScanSync() {
$('#centreMenu').slideUp('slow', function () {
$('#centreMenu').children('div').css('display', 'none');
$('#loadedContentHolder').load('LiveScan/ScanFolders.aspx');
$('#loadedContentHolder').css('display', 'block');

The file you want is LiveScanServ.asmx. The file you have in your service reference is LiveScanService.asmx. Make sure you can manually resolve your asmx file in the browser, and that the url matches the path in your config.
WebService ->LiveScanServ.asmx(this is the file I want)
<Services><asp:ServiceReference Path="~/WebServices/LiveScanService.asmx" /></Services>