Project Title

playwright-python — Automate Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit browsers with a single Python API

Overview

Playwright-python is a Python library for automating Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit browsers. It offers a single API for cross-browser automation, ensuring ever-green, capable, reliable, and fast automation capabilities. Playwright-python stands out for its ability to handle modern web features and its support for headless and headful browser modes.

Key Features

Cross-browser automation with a single API
Supports headless and headful browser modes
Ever-green, capable, reliable, and fast automation
Supports modern web features like CSS Grid, Flexbox, and modern JavaScript APIs

Use Cases

Automating web testing across different browsers
Automating browser-based tasks and workflows
Creating browser-based integration tests
Automating browser interactions for web scraping or data extraction

Advantages

Unified API for automating multiple browsers
Supports modern web features and JavaScript APIs
Fast and reliable automation capabilities
Actively maintained and updated by Microsoft

Limitations / Considerations

May have a steeper learning curve for developers unfamiliar with browser automation
Requires a good understanding of Python and asynchronous programming for advanced use cases

Selenium: A popular browser automation tool that supports multiple languages, but with a more complex API and less support for modern web features.
Puppeteer: A Node library which provides a high-level API over the DevTools Protocol, primarily focused on Chrome and Chromium.
Cypress: A JavaScript-based end-to-end testing framework that offers a more user-friendly interface but is limited to Chrome and Electron.

Basic Information

GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-python
Stars: 13,658
License: Unknown
Last Commit: 2025-09-11

📊 Project Information

Project Name: playwright-python
GitHub URL: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-python
Programming Language: Python
⭐ Stars: 13,658
🍴 Forks: 1,055
📅 Created: 2020-07-01
🔄 Last Updated: 2025-09-11

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