🎭 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 | |
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Chromium 91.0.4469.0 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
WebKit 14.2 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Firefox 89.0b2 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Headless execution is supported for all browsers on all platforms.
pip install playwright
playwright install
This installs Playwright and browser binaries for Chromium, Firefox and WebKit. Playwright requires Python 3.7+.
Playwright can record user interactions in a browser and generate code. See demo.
# Pass --help to see all options
playwright codegen
Playwright offers both sync (blocking) API and async API. They are identical in terms of capabilities and only differ in how one consumes the API.
This is our default API for short snippets and tests. If you are not using asyncio in your application, it is the easiest to use Sync API notation.
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()
If your app is based on the modern asyncio loop and you are used to async/await constructs,
Playwright exposes Async API for you. You should use this API inside a Python REPL supporting asyncio
like with python -m asyncio
$ python -m asyncio
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())
Use our pytest plugin for Playwright.
def test_playwright_is_visible_on_google(page):
page.goto("https://www.google.com")
page.type("input[name=q]", "Playwright GitHub")
page.click("input[type=submit]")
page.wait_for_selector("text=microsoft/Playwright")
Blocking REPL, as in CLI:
>>> from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright
>>> playwright = sync_playwright().start()
# Use playwright.chromium, playwright.firefox or playwright.webkit
# Pass headless=False to see the browser UI
>>> browser = playwright.chromium.launch()
>>> page = browser.new_page()
>>> page.goto("http://whatsmyuseragent.org/")
>>> page.screenshot(path="example.png")
>>> browser.close()
>>> playwright.stop()
Async REPL such as asyncio
REPL:
$ python -m asyncio
>>> from playwright.async_api import async_playwright
>>> playwright = await async_playwright().start()
>>> browser = await playwright.chromium.launch()
>>> page = await browser.new_page()
>>> await page.goto("http://whatsmyuseragent.org/")
>>> await page.screenshot(path="example.png")
>>> await browser.close()
>>> await playwright.stop()
This snippet emulates Mobile Safari on a device at a given geolocation, navigates to maps.google.com, performs action and takes a screenshot.
from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright
with sync_playwright() as p:
iphone_11 = p.devices["iPhone 11 Pro"]
browser = p.webkit.launch(headless=False)
context = browser.new_context(
**iphone_11,
locale="en-US",
geolocation={"longitude": 12.492507, "latitude": 41.889938 },
permissions=["geolocation"]
)
page = context.new_page()
page.goto("https://maps.google.com")
page.click("text=Your location")
page.screenshot(path="colosseum-iphone.png")
browser.close()
Async variant
import asyncio
from playwright.async_api import async_playwright
async def main():
async with async_playwright() as p:
iphone_11 = p.devices["iPhone 11 Pro"]
browser = await p.webkit.launch(headless=False)
context = await browser.new_context(
**iphone_11,
locale="en-US",
geolocation={"longitude": 12.492507, "latitude": 41.889938},
permissions=["geolocation"]
)
page = await context.newPage()
await page.goto("https://maps.google.com")
await page.click("text="Your location"")
await page.screenshot(path="colosseum-iphone.png")
await browser.close()
asyncio.run(main())
This code snippet navigates to example.com in Firefox, and executes a script in the page context.
from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright
with sync_playwright() as p:
browser = p.firefox.launch()
page = browser.new_page()
page.goto("https://www.example.com/")
dimensions = page.evaluate("""() => {
return {
width: document.documentElement.clientWidth,
height: document.documentElement.clientHeight,
deviceScaleFactor: window.devicePixelRatio
}
}""")
print(dimensions)
browser.close()
Async variant
import asyncio
from playwright.async_api import async_playwright
async def main():
async with async_playwright() as p:
browser = await p.firefox.launch()
page = await browser.new_page()
await page.goto("https://www.example.com/")
dimensions = await page.evaluate("""() => {
return {
width: document.documentElement.clientWidth,
height: document.documentElement.clientHeight,
deviceScaleFactor: window.devicePixelRatio
}
}""")
print(dimensions)
await browser.close()
asyncio.run(main())
This code snippet sets up request routing for a Chromium page to log all network requests.
from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright
with sync_playwright() as p:
browser = p.chromium.launch()
page = browser.new_page()
def log_and_continue_request(route, request):
print(request.url)
route.continue_()
# Log and continue all network requests
page.route("**/*", log_and_continue_request)
page.goto("http://todomvc.com")
browser.close()
Async variant
import asyncio
from playwright.async_api import async_playwright
async def main():
async with async_playwright() as p:
browser = await p.chromium.launch()
page = await browser.new_page()
async def log_and_continue_request(route, request):
print(request.url)
await route.continue_()
# Log and continue all network requests
await page.route("**/*", log_and_continue_request)
await page.goto("http://todomvc.com")
await browser.close()
asyncio.run(main())
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