How to handle file picker?

[zevtyardt]

I am currently working with this library and I am facing some difficulties in handling the file picker functionality. I would like to know the proper way to handle the file picker using this library. Could someone please provide guidance or code examples on how to achieve this? Thank you in advance for your help!

[stevepryde]

This is a difficult one. As far as I know, you can't automate this with webdriver/selenium or with the browser automation tools. The file picker is usually an OS-level window so it's kind of "outside" the browser. I've heard that you can use tools like autoit on Windows, but outside of that I don't really have any suggestions (and I've never used autoit).

[zevtyardt]

I use headless mode because my device cannot display the GUI window. I found a function in puppeteer node-js that can handle the file picker

https://pptr.dev/api/puppeteer.page.waitforfilechooser

Does this library have this kind of function?

[stevepryde]

I was not aware of this. Puppeteer (and others) tend to just wrap Chrome DevTools Protocol, which thirtyfour can also access (there are some CDP functions exposed already).

I don't know how it's done in puppeteer but I'd be interested in finding out. If it's using CDP then it may be possible in thirtyfour too, with some work.

[zevtyardt]

ok, thanks for the answer, I'm really looking forward to that feature