Playwright

Playwright for Python

Website

Install:

pamac install python-playwright

Install system dependencies (works only for Debian-based OS, not for Arch)

playwright install-deps

Install system dependencies for Manjaro:

pamac install icu66 libwebp052 libffi7
sudo pacman -S flite

Install the required browsers:

playwright install firefox

Usage

• Http basic auth

Debug mode

Run playwright in debug mode:

export PWDEBUG=1

Docker

• Docker Python
• M$ image registry

Codegen UI

Test generator

playwright codegen -b firefox ix.de

Copy & paste resulting code to file, and run with:

python ix.de.playwright.py

Docker images

• Official Playwright for Python images are ~2Gb big

• Question: How to reduce size of Docker image for Playwright (focal) Alpine 3.19 (-3.15):

  $ pip install playwright ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement playwright ERROR: No matching distribution found for playwright