Folder Uploader Issue

🧩 Custom Components
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I was using this snippet for folder uploading until I started getting an error where I was not able to make an executable for the application, the error seems to be related to this: Tkinter issue

Here’s my code snippet:

import streamlit as st
import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import filedialog

# Set up tkinter
root = tk.Tk()
root.withdraw()

# Make folder picker dialog appear on top of other windows
root.wm_attributes('-topmost', 1)

# Folder picker button
st.title('Folder Picker')
st.write('Please select a folder:')
clicked = st.button('Folder Picker')
if clicked:
    dirname = st.text_input('Selected folder:', filedialog.askdirectory(master=root))

Could anyone provide me with an alternative?

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To upload all the files in a folder just drag and drop the folder into the file uploader.

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If you can then please try running the above-provided code, you will get the idea of what I really want

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I understand your code, but I don’t know for sure what you want. Being able to upload a folder? Being able to get the path to a folder, as the code does? Having a dedicated directory picker that doesn’t distract the user with other file names?

I only have an answer for the first one. You might be able to use HTML, javascript and the components API for the other two. But I have never seen anything like that so it might not be possible.

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Oh ok
Thanks for input

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Being able to upload a folder

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Add a file uploader to the application. Drag and drop the folder into the file uploader. You can do it from the file manager or from the file picker.

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A snippet please, specifically for folder/directory selection @andfanilo

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Using that we can only select file, I want to select a directory

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You cannot select a directory, but you can drag and drop a directory into the file uploader. That will result in the whole directory being uploaded so it fits the bill for being able to upload a folder.

For selecting a directory (directory picker), the only solution I know is the one you posted in the OP. But that can only work if the application and the browser are running in the same computer.

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Drag and drop the file in the uploader it should work

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