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playwright
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Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single A
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microsoft/playwright is an open-source project by microsoft: Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.. Indexed here so it can be found — not resold.
It is free. Get it from the upstream repository: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright
From the project's own README (excerpt, reproduced for discovery under its Apache-2.0 license):
🎭 Playwright
Documentation API reference
Playwright is a framework for web automation and testing. It drives Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit with a single API — in your tests, in your scripts, and as a tool for AI agents.
Get Started
Choose the path that fits your workflow:
Best for Install --- --- --- Playwright Test End-to-end testing npm init playwright@latest Playwright CLI Coding agents (Claude Code, Copilot) npm i -g @playwright/cli@latest Playwright MCP AI agents and LLM-driven automation npx @playwright/mcp@latest Playwright Library Browser automation scripts npm i playwright VS Code Extension Test authoring and debugging in VS Code Install from Marketplace
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Playwright Test
Playwright Test is a full-featured test runner built for end-to-end testing. It runs tests across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit with full browser isolation, auto-waiting, and web-first assertions.
Install
Or add manually:
Write a test
Run tests
Tests run in parallel across all configured browsers, in headless mode by default. Each test gets a fresh browser context — full isolation with near-zero overhead.
Key capabilities
Auto-wait and web-first assertions. No artificial timeouts. Playwright waits for elements to be actionable, and assertions automatically retry until conditions are met.
Locators. Find elements with resilient locators that mirror how users see the page:
Test isolation. Each test runs in its own browser context — equivalent to a fresh browser profile. Save authentication state once and reuse it across tests:
Tracing. Capture execution traces, screenshots, and videos on failure. Inspect every action, DOM snapshot, network request, and console message in the Trace Viewer:
Parallelism. Tests run in parallel by…
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05Versions
Full history →| Version | Channel | Released | Notes |
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| 0.0.0 | stable | Sep 19, 2026 | Indexed listing — see the upstream repository for real release history. |