playwright 1.16.1

A high-level API to automate web browsers

🎭 Playwright for Python

Playwright is a Python library to automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit browsers with a single API. Playwright delivers automation that is ever-green, capable, reliable and fast. See how Playwright is better.

	Linux	macOS	Windows
Chromium 97.0.4666.0	✅	✅	✅
WebKit 15.4	✅	✅	✅
Firefox 93.0	✅	✅	✅

Documentation

https://playwright.dev/python/docs/intro

API Reference

https://playwright.dev/python/docs/api/class-playwright

Example

from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright

with sync_playwright() as p:
    for browser_type in [p.chromium, p.firefox, p.webkit]:
        browser = browser_type.launch()
        page = browser.new_page()
        page.goto('http://whatsmyuseragent.org/')
        page.screenshot(path=f'example-{browser_type.name}.png')
        browser.close()

import asyncio
from playwright.async_api import async_playwright

async def main():
    async with async_playwright() as p:
        for browser_type in [p.chromium, p.firefox, p.webkit]:
            browser = await browser_type.launch()
            page = await browser.new_page()
            await page.goto('http://whatsmyuseragent.org/')
            await page.screenshot(path=f'example-{browser_type.name}.png')
            await browser.close()

asyncio.run(main())

Other languages

More comfortable in another programming language? Playwright is also available in

• Node.js (JavaScript / TypeScript)
• .NET
• Java