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Uploading Files

To upload files, we provide the click_and_upload function, which takes in an element description and a file to upload. The element description must be an element that would normally open the operating system file upload dialog.

We’re using a file called “logo.png” in this example.

upload_file.py
from simplex import Simplex
import os
simplex = Simplex(api_key="your_api_key")
 # no need for proxies in this example -- Simplex doesn't block our automation.
simplex.create_session(proxies=False)
simplex.goto("https://simplex.sh/upload-example.html")
simplex.click_and_upload("Click or drag and drop an image", "logo.png")
print(simplex.extract_text("File name"))

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Downloading Files

To download files, we provide the click_and_download function, which takes in an element description. The element description must be an element that starts a file download.

We return the filename and the bytes of the file so you can either write it to disk or pass it to a cloud storage (S3, GCS, etc).

download_file.py
from simplex import Simplex
import os
simplex = Simplex(api_key="your_api_key")
simplex.create_session(proxies=False)
simplex.goto("https://simplex.sh/download-example.html")
simplex.click("Select action")
filename, content_bytes = simplex.click_and_download("Download logo")
print(filename)
print(len(content_bytes))
with open(filename, 'wb') as f:
    f.write(content_bytes)

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