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Playwright CLI – Open/inspect/emulate pages, generate screenshots, record users

by svacko on 9/18/20, 8:21 AM with 21 comments

• by wraptile on 9/20/20, 7:34 AM

  As soon as python bindings came out I made a `promt-toolkit` based shell[1] for playwright and it has been such a time saver for prototyping!

      $ ptplaywright
      > goto('https://news.ycombinator.com')
      # click on first comments link
      > click('.subtext>a:last-of-type')
      # type in text in comment box
      > type('textarea', 'hello world')
  

  I was about to refactor it to a whole package and submit it to pypi if anyone is interesting in this sort of behaviour.

  https://github.com/Granitosaurus/bin/blob/master/ptplaywrigh...

• by no_wizard on 9/19/20, 6:34 PM

  I love playwright, especially since you get three browser engines (Webkit, Chromium and Gecko) under one unified API.

  I am little disappointed they don’t have a testing library built on top of it, so I’m constantly either trying to re-invent the wheel or I end up using libraries I don’t like.

  Sam issue I had with puppeteer. I think first party testing integration would be such a huge win with this.

  I otherwise have nothing but awesome things to say about the playwright project, it really is such a great improvement over selenium and I think it’s now got a more ergonomic API than puppeteer

• by umaar on 9/19/20, 10:28 PM

  Playwright has been growing on me and it'll feature heavily in a video course I'm making for browser automation.

  I'm keeping the codebase open on GitHub: https://github.com/umaar/learn-browser-testing/ so anyone who wants to follow along can do so for free.

• by hudixt on 9/19/20, 10:37 PM

  We're also to building SAAS produt which is very similiar[1].

  Things we are supporting - No-code test creation. Both playwright-cli and QAwolf supports it. - Much more control over elements. We're using native chrome extension to achieve it. Integrated ChaiJS on top of it. - Automated screenshot capturing, video + all debug info (console, network, DOM) when test fails.

  We're looking for early beta users. If you're interested in trying it out + pizza send along your way, please fill this form https://bit.ly/2FU2Vc4.

  P.S.- We're planning to start beta testing in couple of days.

  [1] https://crusher.dev - Currently unfinished landing page.

• by defied on 9/20/20, 12:40 PM

  We are running a SaaS platform [1] that allows you to connect your Playwright/Puppeteer to our grid of browsers. It’s built for parallel testing.

  [1] https://headlesstesting.com

• by matlin on 9/19/20, 6:31 PM

  I'm not sure this improved much on existing solution like Taiko (https://taiko.dev/) which seems better than Playwright in a number of ways

• by nsonha on 9/20/20, 7:14 AM

  What does it mean to have a test runner for it? Could you not just use it with jest?

• by frabcus on 9/19/20, 8:34 PM

  How does Playwright compare to Cypress?