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Version 1.33​

Locators Update​

  • Use Locator.or() to create a locator that matches either of the two locators. Consider a scenario where you'd like to click on a "New email" button, but sometimes a security settings dialog shows up instead. In this case, you can wait for either a "New email" button, or a dialog and act accordingly:

    Locator newEmail = page.getByRole(AriaRole.BUTTON, new Page.GetByRoleOptions().setName("New email"));
    Locator dialog = page.getByText("Confirm security settings");
    assertThat(newEmail.or(dialog)).isVisible();
    if (dialog.isVisible())
      page.getByRole(AriaRole.BUTTON, new Page.GetByRoleOptions().setName("Dismiss")).click();
    newEmail.click();

  • Use new options hasNot and hasNotText in Locator.filter() to find elements that do not match certain conditions.

    Locator rowLocator = page.locator("tr");
    rowLocator
        .filter(new Locator.FilterOptions().setHasNotText("text in column 1"))
        .filter(new Locator.FilterOptions().setHasNot(
          page.getByRole(AriaRole.BUTTON,
            new Page.GetByRoleOptions().setName("column 2 button" ))))
        .screenshot();

  • Use new web-first assertion assertThat(locator).isAttached() to ensure that the element is present in the page's DOM. Do not confuse with the assertThat(locator).isVisible() that ensures that element is both attached & visible.

New APIs​

Other highlights​

  • Native support for Apple Silicon - Playwright now runs without Rosetta
  • Added Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy) Docker image

⚠️ Breaking change​

  • The mcr.microsoft.com/playwright/java:v1.33.0 now serves a Playwright image based on Ubuntu Jammy. To use the focal-based image, please use mcr.microsoft.com/playwright/java:v1.33.0-focal instead.

Browser Versions​

  • Chromium 113.0.5672.53
  • Mozilla Firefox 112.0
  • WebKit 16.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

  • Google Chrome 112
  • Microsoft Edge 112

Version 1.32​

New APIs​

Browser Versions​

  • Chromium 112.0.5615.29
  • Mozilla Firefox 111.0
  • WebKit 16.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

  • Google Chrome 111
  • Microsoft Edge 111

Version 1.31​

New APIs​

  • New assertion assertThat(locator).isInViewport() ensures that locator points to an element that intersects viewport, according to the intersection observer API.

    Locator locator = page.getByRole(AriaRole.BUTTON);

    // Make sure at least some part of element intersects viewport.
    assertThat(locator).isInViewport();

    // Make sure element is fully outside of viewport.
    assertThat(locator).not().isInViewport();

    // Make sure that at least half of the element intersects viewport.
    assertThat(locator).isInViewport(new LocatorAssertions.IsInViewportOptions().setRatio(0.5));

Miscellaneous​

  • DOM snapshots in trace viewer can be now opened in a separate window.
  • New option Route.fetch.maxRedirects for method Route.fetch().
  • Playwright now supports Debian 11 arm64.
  • Official docker images now include Node 18 instead of Node 16.

Browser Versions​

  • Chromium 111.0.5563.19
  • Mozilla Firefox 109.0
  • WebKit 16.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

  • Google Chrome 110
  • Microsoft Edge 110

Version 1.30​

Browser Versions​

  • Chromium 110.0.5481.38
  • Mozilla Firefox 108.0.2
  • WebKit 16.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

  • Google Chrome 109
  • Microsoft Edge 109

Version 1.29​

New APIs​

  • New method Route.fetch():

    page.route("**/api/settings", route -> {
      // Fetch original settings.
      APIResponse response = route.fetch();
      // Force settings theme to a predefined value.
      String body = response.text().replace("\"theme\":\"default\"",
        "\"theme\":\"Solorized\"");
      // Fulfill with modified data.
      route.fulfill(new Route.FulfillOptions().setResponse(response).setBody(body));
    });

  • New method Locator.all() to iterate over all matching elements:

    // Check all checkboxes!
    Locator checkboxes = page.getByRole(AriaRole.CHECKBOX);
    for (Locator checkbox : checkboxes.all())
      checkbox.check();

  • Locator.selectOption() matches now by value or label:

    <select multiple>
      <option value="red">Red</div>
      <option value="green">Green</div>
      <option value="blue">Blue</div>
    </select>
    element.selectOption("Red");

Browser Versions​

  • Chromium 109.0.5414.46
  • Mozilla Firefox 107.0
  • WebKit 16.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

  • Google Chrome 108
  • Microsoft Edge 108

Version 1.28​

Playwright Tools​

  • Live Locators in CodeGen. Generate a locator for any element on the page using "Explore" tool.

Locator Explorer

New APIs​

Browser Versions​

  • Chromium 108.0.5359.29
  • Mozilla Firefox 106.0
  • WebKit 16.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

  • Google Chrome 107
  • Microsoft Edge 107

Version 1.27​

Locators​

With these new APIs writing locators is a joy:

page.getByLabel("User Name").fill("John");

page.getByLabel("Password").fill("secret-password");

page.getByRole(AriaRole.BUTTON, new Page.GetByRoleOptions().setName("Sign in")).click();

assertThat(page.getByText("Welcome, John!")).isVisible();

All the same methods are also available on Locator, FrameLocator and Frame classes.

Other highlights​

  • As announced in v1.25, Ubuntu 18 will not be supported as of Dec 2022. In addition to that, there will be no WebKit updates on Ubuntu 18 starting from the next Playwright release.

Behavior Changes​

  • assertThat(locator).hasAttribute() with an empty value does not match missing attribute anymore. For example, the following snippet will succeed when button does not have a disabled attribute.

Browser Versions​

  • Chromium 107.0.5304.18
  • Mozilla Firefox 105.0.1
  • WebKit 16.0

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

  • Google Chrome 106
  • Microsoft Edge 106

Version 1.26​

Assertions​

Other highlights​

  • New option setMaxRedirects for APIRequestContext.get() and others to limit redirect count.
  • Docker images are now using OpenJDK 17.

Behavior Change​

A bunch of Playwright APIs already support the setWaitUntil(WaitUntilState.DOMCONTENTLOADED) option. For example:

Prior to 1.26, this would wait for all iframes to fire the DOMContentLoaded event.

To align with web specification, the WaitUntilState.DOMCONTENTLOADED value only waits for the target frame to fire the 'DOMContentLoaded' event. Use setWaitUntil(WaitUntilState.LOAD) to wait for all iframes.

Browser Versions​

  • Chromium 106.0.5249.30
  • Mozilla Firefox 104.0
  • WebKit 16.0

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

  • Google Chrome 105
  • Microsoft Edge 105

Version 1.25​

New APIs & changes​

Announcements​

  • 🪦 This is the last release with macOS 10.15 support (deprecated as of 1.21).
  • ⚠️ Ubuntu 18 is now deprecated and will not be supported as of Dec 2022.

Browser Versions​

  • Chromium 105.0.5195.19
  • Mozilla Firefox 103.0
  • WebKit 16.0

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

  • Google Chrome 104
  • Microsoft Edge 104

Version 1.24​

🐂 Debian 11 Bullseye Support​

Playwright now supports Debian 11 Bullseye on x86_64 for Chromium, Firefox and WebKit. Let us know if you encounter any issues!

Linux support looks like this:

Ubuntu 20.04Ubuntu 22.04Debian 11
Chromium✅✅✅
WebKit✅✅✅
Firefox✅✅✅

Version 1.23​

Network Replay​

Now you can record network traffic into a HAR file and re-use this traffic in your tests.

To record network into HAR file:

mvn exec:java -e -D exec.mainClass=com.microsoft.playwright.CLI -D exec.args="open --save-har=example.har --save-har-glob='**/api/**' https://example.com"

Alternatively, you can record HAR programmatically:

BrowserContext context = browser.newContext(new Browser.NewContextOptions()
    .setRecordHarPath(Paths.get("example.har"))
    .setRecordHarUrlFilter("**/api/**"));

// ... Perform actions ...

// Close context to ensure HAR is saved to disk.
context.close();

Use the new methods Page.routeFromHAR() or BrowserContext.routeFromHAR() to serve matching responses from the HAR file:

context.routeFromHAR(Paths.get("example.har"));

Read more in our documentation.

Advanced Routing​

You can now use Route.fallback() to defer routing to other handlers.

Consider the following example:

// Remove a header from all requests.
page.route("**/*", route -> {
  Map<String, String> headers = new HashMap<>(route.request().headers());
  headers.remove("X-Secret");
  route.resume(new Route.ResumeOptions().setHeaders(headers));
});

// Abort all images.
page.route("**/*", route -> {
  if ("image".equals(route.request().resourceType()))
    route.abort();
  else
    route.fallback();
});

Note that the new methods Page.routeFromHAR() and BrowserContext.routeFromHAR() also participate in routing and could be deferred to.

Web-First Assertions Update​

Miscellaneous​

  • If there's a service worker that's in your way, you can now easily disable it with a new context option serviceWorkers:

    BrowserContext context = browser.newContext(new Browser.NewContextOptions()
        .setServiceWorkers(ServiceWorkerPolicy.BLOCK));

  • Using .zip path for recordHar context option automatically zips the resulting HAR:

    BrowserContext context = browser.newContext(new Browser.NewContextOptions()
        .setRecordHarPath(Paths.get("example.har.zip")));

  • If you intend to edit HAR by hand, consider using the "minimal" HAR recording mode that only records information that is essential for replaying:

    BrowserContext context = browser.newContext(new Browser.NewContextOptions()
        .setRecordHarPath(Paths.get("example.har"))
        .setRecordHarMode(HarMode.MINIMAL));

  • Playwright now runs on Ubuntu 22 amd64 and Ubuntu 22 arm64.

Version 1.22​

Highlights​

  • Role selectors that allow selecting elements by their ARIA role, ARIA attributes and accessible name.

    // Click a button with accessible name "log in"
    page.locator("role=button[name='log in']").click();

    Read more in our documentation.

  • New Locator.filter() API to filter an existing locator

    Locator buttonsLocator = page.locator("role=button");
    // ...
    Locator submitButton = buttonsLocator.filter(new Locator.FilterOptions().setHasText("Submit"));
    submitButton.click();

  • Playwright for Java now supports Ubuntu 20.04 ARM64 and Apple M1. You can now run Playwright for Java tests on Apple M1, inside Docker on Apple M1, and on Raspberry Pi.

Version 1.21​

Highlights​

Behavior Changes​

Browser Versions​

  • Chromium 101.0.4951.26
  • Mozilla Firefox 98.0.2
  • WebKit 15.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

  • Google Chrome 100
  • Microsoft Edge 100

Version 1.20​

Highlights​

Announcements​

  • v1.20 is the last release to receive WebKit update for macOS 10.15 Catalina. Please update MacOS to keep using latest & greatest WebKit!

Browser Versions​

  • Chromium 101.0.4921.0
  • Mozilla Firefox 97.0.1
  • WebKit 15.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

  • Google Chrome 99
  • Microsoft Edge 99

Version 1.19​

Highlights​

  • Locator now supports a has option that makes sure it contains another locator inside:

    page.locator("article", new Page.LocatorOptions().setHas(page.locator(".highlight"))).click();

    Read more in locator documentation

  • New Locator.page()

  • Page.screenshot() and Locator.screenshot() now automatically hide blinking caret

  • Playwright Codegen now generates locators and frame locators

Browser Versions​

  • Chromium 100.0.4863.0
  • Mozilla Firefox 96.0.1
  • WebKit 15.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

  • Google Chrome 98
  • Microsoft Edge 98

Version 1.18​

API Testing​

Playwright for Java 1.18 introduces new API Testing that lets you send requests to the server directly from Java! Now you can:

  • test your server API
  • prepare server side state before visiting the web application in a test
  • validate server side post-conditions after running some actions in the browser

To do a request on behalf of Playwright's Page, use new Page.request() API:

// Do a GET request on behalf of page
APIResponse res = page.request().get("http://example.com/foo.json");

Read more about it in our API testing guide.

Web-First Assertions​

Playwright for Java 1.18 introduces Web-First Assertions.

Consider the following example:

...
import static com.microsoft.playwright.assertions.PlaywrightAssertions.assertThat;

public class TestExample {
  ...
  @Test
  void statusBecomesSubmitted() {
    ...
    page.locator("#submit-button").click();
    assertThat(page.locator(".status")).hasText("Submitted");
  }
}

Playwright will be re-testing the node with the selector .status until fetched Node has the "Submitted" text. It will be re-fetching the node and checking it over and over, until the condition is met or until the timeout is reached. You can pass this timeout as an option.

Read more in our documentation.

Locator Improvements​

  • Locator.dragTo()

  • Each locator can now be optionally filtered by the text it contains:

    page.locator("li", new Page.LocatorOptions().setHasText("my item"))
        .locator("button").click();

    Read more in locator documentation

Tracing Improvements​

Tracing now can embed Java sources to recorded traces, using new setSources option.

tracing-java-sources

New APIs & changes​

Browser Versions​

  • Chromium 99.0.4812.0
  • Mozilla Firefox 95.0
  • WebKit 15.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

  • Google Chrome 97
  • Microsoft Edge 97

Version 1.17​

Frame Locators​

Playwright 1.17 introduces frame locators - a locator to the iframe on the page. Frame locators capture the logic sufficient to retrieve the iframe and then locate elements in that iframe. Frame locators are strict by default, will wait for iframe to appear and can be used in Web-First assertions.

Graphics

Frame locators can be created with either Page.frameLocator() or Locator.frameLocator() method.

Locator locator = page.frameLocator("#my-frame").locator("text=Submit");
locator.click();

Read more at our documentation.

Trace Viewer Update​

Playwright Trace Viewer is now available online at https://trace.playwright.dev! Just drag-and-drop your trace.zip file to inspect its contents.

NOTE: trace files are not uploaded anywhere; trace.playwright.dev is a progressive web application that processes traces locally.

  • Playwright Test traces now include sources by default (these could be turned off with tracing option)
  • Trace Viewer now shows test name
  • New trace metadata tab with browser details
  • Snapshots now have URL bar

image

HTML Report Update​

  • HTML report now supports dynamic filtering
  • Report is now a single static HTML file that could be sent by e-mail or as a slack attachment.

image

Ubuntu ARM64 support + more​

  • Playwright now supports Ubuntu 20.04 ARM64. You can now run Playwright tests inside Docker on Apple M1 and on Raspberry Pi.

  • You can now use Playwright to install stable version of Edge on Linux:

    mvn exec:java -e -D exec.mainClass=com.microsoft.playwright.CLI -D exec.args="install msedge"

New APIs​

  • Tracing now supports a 'title' option
  • Page navigations support a new 'commit' waiting option

Version 1.16​

🎭 Playwright Library​

Locator.waitFor​

Wait for a locator to resolve to a single element with a given state. Defaults to the state: 'visible'.

Locator orderSent = page.locator("#order-sent");
orderSent.waitFor();

Read more about Locator.waitFor().

🎭 Playwright Trace Viewer​

  • run trace viewer with mvn exec:java -e -D exec.mainClass=com.microsoft.playwright.CLI -D exec.args="show-trace" and drop trace files to the trace viewer PWA
  • better visual attribution of action targets

Read more about Trace Viewer.

Browser Versions​

  • Chromium 97.0.4666.0
  • Mozilla Firefox 93.0
  • WebKit 15.4

This version of Playwright was also tested against the following stable channels:

  • Google Chrome 94
  • Microsoft Edge 94

Version 1.15​

🖱️ Mouse Wheel​

By using Mouse.wheel you are now able to scroll vertically or horizontally.

📜 New Headers API​

Previously it was not possible to get multiple header values of a response. This is now possible and additional helper functions are available:

🌈 Forced-Colors emulation​

Its now possible to emulate the forced-colors CSS media feature by passing it in the context options or calling Page.emulateMedia().

New APIs​

Browser Versions​

  • Chromium 96.0.4641.0
  • Mozilla Firefox 92.0
  • WebKit 15.0

Version 1.14​

⚡️ New "strict" mode​

Selector ambiguity is a common problem in automation testing. "strict" mode ensures that your selector points to a single element and throws otherwise.

Set setStrict(true) in your action calls to opt in.

// This will throw if you have more than one button!
page.click("button", new Page.ClickOptions().setStrict(true));

📍 New Locators API​

Locator represents a view to the element(s) on the page. It captures the logic sufficient to retrieve the element at any given moment.

The difference between the Locator and ElementHandle is that the latter points to a particular element, while Locator captures the logic of how to retrieve that element.

Also, locators are "strict" by default!

Locator locator = page.locator("button");
locator.click();

Learn more in the documentation.

🧩 Experimental React and Vue selector engines​

React and Vue selectors allow selecting elements by its component name and/or property values. The syntax is very similar to attribute selectors and supports all attribute selector operators.

page.locator("_react=SubmitButton[enabled=true]").click();
page.locator("_vue=submit-button[enabled=true]").click();

Learn more in the react selectors documentation and the vue selectors documentation.

✨ New nth and visible selector engines​

  • nth selector engine is equivalent to the :nth-match pseudo class, but could be combined with other selector engines.
  • visible selector engine is equivalent to the :visible pseudo class, but could be combined with other selector engines.
// select the first button among all buttons
button.click("button >> nth=0");
// or if you are using locators, you can use first(), nth() and last()
page.locator("button").first().click();

// click a visible button
button.click("button >> visible=true");

Browser Versions​

  • Chromium 94.0.4595.0
  • Mozilla Firefox 91.0
  • WebKit 15.0

Version 1.13​

Playwright​

Tools​

  • Playwright Trace Viewer now shows parameters, returned values and console.log() calls.

New and Overhauled Guides​

Browser Versions​

  • Chromium 93.0.4576.0
  • Mozilla Firefox 90.0
  • WebKit 14.2

New Playwright APIs​

Version 1.12​

🧟‍♂️ Introducing Playwright Trace Viewer​

Playwright Trace Viewer is a new GUI tool that helps exploring recorded Playwright traces after the script ran. Playwright traces let you examine:

  • page DOM before and after each Playwright action
  • page rendering before and after each Playwright action
  • browser network during script execution

Traces are recorded using the new BrowserContext.tracing() API:

Browser browser = chromium.launch();
BrowserContext context = browser.newContext();

// Start tracing before creating / navigating a page.
context.tracing.start(new Tracing.StartOptions()
  .setScreenshots(true)
  .setSnapshots(true);

Page page = context.newPage();
page.goto("https://playwright.dev");

// Stop tracing and export it into a zip archive.
context.tracing.stop(new Tracing.StopOptions()
  .setPath(Paths.get("trace.zip")));

Traces are examined later with the Playwright CLI:

mvn exec:java -e -D exec.mainClass=com.microsoft.playwright.CLI -D exec.args="show-trace trace.zip"

That will open the following GUI:

image

👉 Read more in trace viewer documentation.

Browser Versions​

  • Chromium 93.0.4530.0
  • Mozilla Firefox 89.0
  • WebKit 14.2

This version of Playwright was also tested against the following stable channels:

  • Google Chrome 91
  • Microsoft Edge 91

New APIs​

Version 1.11​

🎥 New video: Playwright: A New Test Automation Framework for the Modern Web (slides)

  • We talked about Playwright
  • Showed engineering work behind the scenes
  • Did live demos with new features ✨
  • Special thanks to applitools for hosting the event and inviting us!

Browser Versions​

  • Chromium 92.0.4498.0
  • Mozilla Firefox 89.0b6
  • WebKit 14.2

New APIs​

Version 1.10​

Bundled Browser Versions​

  • Chromium 90.0.4430.0
  • Mozilla Firefox 87.0b10
  • WebKit 14.2

This version of Playwright was also tested against the following stable channels:

  • Google Chrome 89
  • Microsoft Edge 89

New APIs​

Version 1.9​

  • Playwright Inspector is a new GUI tool to author and debug your tests.
    • Line-by-line debugging of your Playwright scripts, with play, pause and step-through.
    • Author new scripts by recording user actions.
    • Generate element selectors for your script by hovering over elements.
    • Set the PWDEBUG=1 environment variable to launch the Inspector
  • Pause script execution with Page.pause() in headed mode. Pausing the page launches Playwright Inspector for debugging.
  • New has-text pseudo-class for CSS selectors. :has-text("example") matches any element containing "example" somewhere inside, possibly in a child or a descendant element. See more examples.
  • Page dialogs are now auto-dismissed during execution, unless a listener for dialog event is configured. Learn more about this.
  • Playwright for Python is now stable with an idiomatic snake case API and pre-built Docker image to run tests in CI/CD.

Browser Versions​

  • Chromium 90.0.4421.0
  • Mozilla Firefox 86.0b10
  • WebKit 14.1

New APIs​

Version 1.8​

New APIs​

Browser Versions​

  • Chromium 90.0.4392.0
  • Mozilla Firefox 85.0b5
  • WebKit 14.1

Version 1.7​

  • New Java SDK: Playwright for Java is now on par with JavaScript, Python and .NET bindings.
  • Browser storage API: New convenience APIs to save and load browser storage state (cookies, local storage) to simplify automation scenarios with authentication.
  • New CSS selectors: We heard your feedback for more flexible selectors and have revamped the selectors implementation. Playwright 1.7 introduces new CSS extensions and there's more coming soon.
  • New website: The docs website at playwright.dev has been updated and is now built with Docusaurus.
  • Support for Apple Silicon: Playwright browser binaries for WebKit and Chromium are now built for Apple Silicon.

New APIs​

Browser Versions​

  • Chromium 89.0.4344.0
  • Mozilla Firefox 84.0b9
  • WebKit 14.1