Click a button in Safari using Applescript

Hi,
I've been dabbling in Applescript for the last few weeks and while I can make it perform some pretty complex workflows, I still have virtually no knowledge of how to make it interact with JavaScript, and it's an essencial part of a new, larger applescript I'm working on to streamline a mundane task I'll need to perform a few hundred times.
In particular, with the page "https://www.google.com/doubleclick/studio/swiffy/" already opened in Safari, I'd like AppleScript to:
1) Click the "Browse" button.
2) Browse to find the file in question (FilePath)
3) Check the Checkbox.
4) Then click the "Upload and convert" button to start the conversion.
Could anyone tell me how to interact with these buttons? I'd appreciate specific solutions, since i can make neither head nor tails of JavaScript.
Cheers!

Hi again,
since I still haven't found the solution to the problem, I've tried to find some answers on my own. I've tried to use .getElementById function, but it only works for the little checkbox on the page, since I can't get the IDs for the other elements. This is how much working code I've come up with so far:
tell application "Safari"
    activate
    set URL of document 1 to "https://www.google.com/doubleclick/studio/swiffy/"
    delay 4
    do JavaScript "document.getElementById('gwt-uid-13').click()" in document 1
    delay 1
end tell
The problem is, I don't think the other elements have IDs. So, after some research I found that you should be able to manipulate them with other functions such as, getElementsByTagName, but it didn't work for me. I added the following line to the script:
do JavaScript "document.getElementById('gwt-uid-13').click()" in document 1
but it does nothing.
Below you can find the two elements as they embedded in the page:
First Element to open the file finder info to upload the file:
<form target="FormPanel_SwiffyFrontend_1" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post" action="/doubleclick/studio/swiffy/upload"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td align="left" style="vertical-align: top; "><input type="file" class="gwt-FileUpload" name="swfFile">
Second Element to submit the file:
<td align="left" style="vertical-align: top; "><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td align="left" style="vertical-align: top; "><button type="submit" class="gwt-SubmitButton">Upload and convert</button>
I'm really desperate for some help here. I just don't understand what I'm supposed to do. More specific and less general solutions would be very much appreciated.
Cheers!

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