Interacting with pop-up boxes using selenium in python

Question

I\'m trying to use the Selenium module in python to generate a text list from one website, save it in a directory, and browse to that text list on another site to submit it.

Answer 1

The popups you see are not regular popups that can be interacted with using switch_to. These popups are system dialogs and cannot be automated using selenium.

Usually people avoid having these dialogs shown in the first place by tweaking browser preferences, e.g.:

• downloading file using selenium
• Access to file download dialog in Firefox
• How to download a file using Selenium's WebDriver?

For uploading, usually you can find the appropriate input element and send keys to it with a path to the file:

• How to upload file ( picture ) with selenium, python
• How to upload files into file inputs? (python-selenium docs)

^{Let me know if your case cannot be solved by using the answers in the links I've attached.}

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As for your first, "download file automatically" problem, you just need to set a correct content-type:

profile.set_preference('browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk', "application/xml,text/xml")

Second problem fix (upload part):

driver.find_element_by_name("input_product_list").send_keys(textpath)
driver.find_element_by_name('include_sr').click()
driver.find_element_by_id('submit').click()