How to send text to an input element with type attribute as hidden using python and selenium

Question

I'm new to python and selenium. I want to click on the get_likes_button and I need to send the value = 1803345990687013485 when doing that.

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Here's the HTML

<form action="" method="post" accept-charset="utf-8"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> 
<i class="fa fa-heart" style="color: #F12938;"></i> 20 </span> 
<input type="hidden" value="1803345990687013485" name="id">
<button class="btn btn-primary pull-right" type="submit" name="submit"
 id="get_likes_button"> Get Likes </button> </form></b>

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Here's the code

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@name='id']").send_key('1803345990687013485')
driver.find_element_by_id('get_likes_button').submit()

I get the following message

Exception: Message: Element not visible.

Answer 1

This error message...

Exception: Message: Element not visible.

...implies that the desired element is not visible.

The main issue is the <input> tag is having an attribute type="hidden".

To send the character sequence 1803345990687013485 to the input field and invoke click() on the button you can use the following solution:

driver.execute_script("document.getElementsByName('id')[0].setAttribute('type','text')")
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@name='id']").send_key('1803345990687013485')
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//button[@class='btn btn-primary pull-right' and @id='get_likes_button']").click()