#WETRANSFER UPLOAD HOW TO#

Sometimes it’s fiddly to make sure this is on path, so you can get round this by explicitly specifying where the driver is on your system as in line 17. It can be worth explicitly specifying the path to the chromedriver (if you’re using Chrome).

#WETRANSFER UPLOAD HOW TO#

To finish up, here are a few tips and tricks on how to navigate a webpage using Selenium so that things go smoothly… If no data is being uploaded, then the program closes the browser and restarts the upload in a new window. This programs works by using Selenium to automate the process of uploading to WeTranfer and then checking every 30s minutes to see if your upload is still working. If that’s all good, then run the below commands in your desired directory: git clone python3 -m venv env source env/bin/activate pip install -r requirements.txt cd app python wetransferchecker.py Selenium Browser Automation So I wrote a python program for this! How to Installįor the below instructions to work, you will already need to have github’s command line tool git and python3 installed. When this happens, you just have to start again…īut that requires you to sit by computer and constantly monitor WeTransfer, which is exceedingly tedious. What went wrong? Well, often when you have slow internet the connection temporarily drops and that makes WeTransfer crash. You have to start again but WeTransfer says you need another 6 hours which means you’ve missed your deadline. So you fire up WeTransfer before you go to bed and hit upload, assuming then 6 hour upload time will run through the night.īut when you wake up the next morning, no file has arrived. You’ve got to send a large file to somebody tomorrow morning. Automating file upload with WeTransfer - see more at my github repository

Wetransfer upload