playwright

What people said

• “For simple scraping where the content is fairly static, or when performance is critical, I will use linkedom to process pages. When the content is complex or involves clicking, Playwright is probably the best tool for the job.…”

• “In the world of SPA (single page applications), headless browser API is super helpful, playwright and puppeteer are very good choices.”

• “Playwright allows you to connect to existing browser instances, but it currently requires you to get the “debug URL” of the browser instance first:. I’d love to hear a bit more about the scenario you have in mind, s…”

• “Out of curiosity: why does the fact that Playwright is a Microsoft-sponsored OSS project discourage your interest? The team is working very hard to be open/transparent/available, and we’re very excited to build a better automation stack…”

• “As part of our goal to enable better developer ergonomics, we’re very keen to explore “better”/higher-level APIs and additional extensibility points. For example, we allow you to define custom “selector engines”,…”

• “Great! Let us know if you end up having any questions/comments/feedback:.”

• “Awesome! Please don’t hesitate to let us know how we can improve. We want to make web automation not only more reliable, but also more enjoyable. So we’re keen to hear how we can continue to push that goal forward:)”

• “Each of the page operations (e.g. click) automatically wait for the specified element to become visible before being performed. That way, your automation code is declarative about what you want to do, and to what element(s), and you can allow the Playwright framework to handle an…”