microsoft/playwright
Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.
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Where it stands
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4 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 5 days ago, with 469 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #32 in the weekly ranking the week of Oct 19, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a cross-browser web testing and automation framework supporting Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit with a unified API.
- Delivers reliable, fast, and resilient test execution with auto-wait, web-first assertions, and full test isolation via browser contexts.
- Use for end-to-end testing of web applications across multiple browsers and platforms with consistent APIs.
- Use for automating user interactions and capturing screenshots or videos for UI regression testing and debugging.
- Use for simulating mobile devices and geolocation scenarios to test responsive and location-aware web applications.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API. Playwright is built to enable cross-browser web automation that is ever-green, capable, reliable and fast.
Headless execution is supported for all browsers on all platforms. Check out system requirements for details.
Looking for Playwright for Python, .NET, or Java?
Playwright has its own test runner for end-to-end tests, we call it Playwright Test.
The easiest way to get started with Playwright Test is to run the init command.
This will create a configuration file, optionally add examples, a GitHub Action workflow and a first test example.spec.ts. You can now jump directly to writing assertions section.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+4,483 stars over 74 days across 11 snapshot days; best day +112 on Nov 11.
Forks
6.8K+484
Open issues
32-135
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| superplanehq/superplane | 9.8K | +1.0K | 75 | 13 days ago |
| gosom/google-maps-scraper | 7.9K | +622 | 75 | 2 days ago |
| microsoft/playwright | 99.8K | — | 75 | 5 days ago |
| Category median | 21.4K | +3.8K | 75 | — |
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