Give upload file path to Instagram with Selenium and python

If right understand, you are trying to avoid handling with a native window. You can try this:

# get all inputsinputs = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//input[@accept = 'image/jpeg']").send_keys(os.getcwd() + "/image.png")

Now you can try all of them. I don't know which of them will work.

More about os.getcwd() is here

To be able to perform this code you have to have an element like this:

<input type="file" name="fileToUpload" id="fileToUpload2" class="fileToUpload">

EDIT:

It looks like instagram turned of input fields interaction for posts. For Account image it still works, but not for posting. I assume it is was done to prevent bots to post images. Anyway, there is a solution for this problem. You can use AutoIt like this:

import autoitfrom selenium import webdriverfrom selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChainsfrom selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilitiesfrom selenium.webdriver.common.by import Byfrom selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWaitfrom selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as ECfrom selenium.webdriver.common.keys import KeysActionChains(driver).move_to_element( driver.find_element_by_xpath("//path/to/upload/button")).click().perform()handle = "[CLASS:#32770; TITLE:Open]"autoit.win_wait(handle, 60)autoit.control_set_text(handle, "Edit1", "\\file\\path")autoit.control_click(handle, "Button1")

Addition to HumbleFox's answer. To solve his problem regarding the pop-up box not closing or the file pop-up box not closing (bug)

The solution to this is to make the browser headless here's a part of my code for example:

mobile_emulation = { "deviceName": "Pixel 2" }chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()chrome_options.add_argument('--headless')chrome_options.add_experimental_option("mobileEmulation", mobile_emulation)chrome_options.binary_location = self.opt.binary_locationself.driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=self.path, options=chrome_options)

I think I may have found a solution that works for me. I found if you first have the bot click the plus icon while the browser is in the mobile view.

self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div[1]/section/nav[2]/div/div/div[2]/div/div/div[3]")\        .click()

after that, I would immediately send my file to an input tag in the HTML and I find you may need to play around as to which one works but I find the last input tag worked for me.

self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div[1]/section/nav[2]/div/div/form/input")\        .send_keys("/image/path.jpg")

The one weird thing about this is you will have a popup menu on top of the page but your code will still function with this window displayed over the window you are working on.