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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:

    new_email = page.get_by_role("button", name="New email")
    dialog = page.get_by_text("Confirm security settings")
    expect(new_email.or_(dialog)).is_visible()
    if (dialog.is_visible())
      page.get_by_role("button", name="Dismiss").click()
    new_email.click()

  • Use new options has_not and has_not_text in locator.filter() to find elements that do not match certain conditions.

    row_locator = page.locator("tr")
    row_locator
        .filter(has_not_text="text in column 1")
        .filter(has_not=page.get_by_role("button", name="column 2 button"))
        .screenshot()

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

New APIs​

⚠️ Breaking change​

  • The mcr.microsoft.com/playwright/python:v1.33.0 now serves a Playwright image based on Ubuntu Jammy. To use the focal-based image, please use mcr.microsoft.com/playwright/python: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 expect(locator).to_be_in_viewport() ensures that locator points to an element that intersects viewport, according to the intersection observer API.

    from playwright.sync_api import expect

    locator = page.get_by_role("button")

    # Make sure at least some part of element intersects viewport.
    expect(locator).to_be_in_viewport()

    # Make sure element is fully outside of viewport.
    expect(locator).not_to_be_in_viewport()

    # Make sure that at least half of the element intersects viewport.
    expect(locator).to_be_in_viewport(ratio=0.5)

Miscellaneous​

  • DOM snapshots in trace viewer can be now opened in a separate window.
  • New option route.fetch.max_redirects 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() and new option json for route.fulfill():

    def handle_route(route: Route):
      # Fetch original settings.
      response = route.fetch()

      # Force settings theme to a predefined value.
      json = response.json()
      json["theme"] = "Solorized"

      # Fulfill with modified data.
      route.fulfill(json=json)


    page.route("**/api/settings", handle_route)

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

    # Check all checkboxes!
    checkboxes = page.get_by_role("checkbox")
    for checkbox in checkboxes.all():
      checkbox.check()

  • locator.select_option() 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.select_option("Red")

Miscellaneous​

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.get_by_label("User Name").fill("John")

page.get_by_label("Password").fill("secret-password")

page.get_by_role("button", name="Sign in").click()

expect(page.get_by_text("Welcome, John!")).to_be_visible()

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​

  • expect(locator).to_have_attribute() 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​

Behavior Change​

A bunch of Playwright APIs already support the wait_until: "domcontentloaded" option. For example:

page.goto("https://playwright.dev", wait_until="domcontentloaded")

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

To align with web specification, the 'domcontentloaded' value only waits for the target frame to fire the 'DOMContentLoaded' event. Use wait_until="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​

Announcements​

  • 🎁 We now ship Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish docker image: mcr.microsoft.com/playwright/python:v1.34.0-jammy.
  • 🪦 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✅✅✅

New introduction docs​

We rewrote our Getting Started docs to be more end-to-end testing focused. Check them out on playwright.dev.

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:

npx playwright open --save-har=github.har.zip https://github.com/microsoft

Alternatively, you can record HAR programmatically:

context = browser.new_context(record_har_path="github.har.zip")
# ... do stuff ...
context.close()
context = await browser.new_context(record_har_path="github.har.zip")
# ... do stuff ...
await context.close()

Use the new methods page.route_from_har() or browser_context.route_from_har() to serve matching responses from the HAR file:

context.route_from_har("github.har.zip")
await context.route_from_har("github.har.zip")

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
def remove_header_handler(route: Route) -> None:
    headers = route.request.all_headers()
    if "if-none-match" in headers:
        del headers["if-none-match"]
    route.fallback(headers=headers)

page.route("**/*", remove_header_handler)

# Abort all images
def abort_images_handler(route: Route) -> None:
    if route.request.resource_type == "image":
        route.abort()
    else:
        route.fallback()

page.route("**/*", abort_images_handler)
# Remove a header from all requests
async def remove_header_handler(route: Route) -> None:
    headers = await route.request.all_headers()
    if "if-none-match" in headers:
        del headers["if-none-match"]
    await route.fallback(headers=headers)

await page.route("**/*", remove_header_handler)

# Abort all images
async def abort_images_handler(route: Route) -> None:
    if route.request.resource_type == "image":
        await route.abort()
    else:
        await route.fallback()

await page.route("**/*", abort_images_handler)

Note that the new methods page.route_from_har() and browser_context.route_from_har() 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 service_workers:

    context = browser.new_context(service_workers="block")
    page = context.new_page()
    context = await browser.new_context(service_workers="block")
    page = await context.new_page()

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

    context = browser.new_context(record_har_path="github.har.zip")
    context = await browser.new_context(record_har_path="github.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:

    context = browser.new_context(record_har_mode="minimal", record_har_path="har.har")
    context = await browser.new_context(record_har_mode="minimal", record_har_path="har.har")

  • 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

    buttons = page.locator("role=button")
    # ...
    submit_button = buttons.filter(has_text="Submit")
    submit_button.click()

  • Codegen now supports generating Pytest Tests

    Graphics

Version 1.21​

Highlights​

  • New 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()
    # Click a button with accessible name "log in"
    await page.locator("role=button[name='log in']").click()

    Read more in our documentation.

  • New scale option in page.screenshot() for smaller sized screenshots.

  • New caret option in page.screenshot() to control text caret. Defaults to "hide".

Behavior Changes​

  • The mcr.microsoft.com/playwright docker image no longer contains Python. Please use mcr.microsoft.com/playwright/python as a Playwright-ready docker image with pre-installed Python.
  • Playwright now supports large file uploads (100s of MBs) via locator.set_input_files() API.

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​

  • We now ship a designated Python docker image mcr.microsoft.com/playwright/python. Please switch over to it if you use Python. This is the last release that includes Python inside our javascript mcr.microsoft.com/playwright docker image.
  • 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", has=page.locator(".highlight")).click()
    await page.locator("article", has=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 Python 1.18 introduces new API Testing that lets you send requests to the server directly from Python! 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
res = page.request.get("http://example.com/foo.json")
# Do a GET request on behalf of page
res = await page.request.get("http://example.com/foo.json")

Read more in our documentation.

Web-First Assertions​

Playwright for Python 1.18 introduces Web-First Assertions.

Consider the following example:

from playwright.sync_api import Page, expect

def test_status_becomes_submitted(page: Page) -> None:
    # ..
    page.locator("#submit-button").click()
    expect(page.locator(".status")).to_have_text("Submitted")
from playwright.async_api import Page, expect

async def test_status_becomes_submitted(page: Page) -> None:
    # ..
    await page.locator("#submit-button").click()
    await expect(page.locator(".status")).to_have_text("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.drag_to()

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

    page.locator("li", has_text="my item").locator("button").click()
    await page.locator("li", has_text="my item").locator("button").click()

    Read more in locator documentation

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.frame_locator() or locator.frame_locator() method.

locator = page.frame_locator("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:

    npx playwright install msedge

New APIs​

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

Version 1.16​

🎭 Playwright Library​

locator.wait_for​

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

Comes especially handy when working with lists:

order_sent = page.locator("#order-sent")
order_sent.wait_for()

Read more about locator.wait_for().

Docker support for Arm64​

Playwright Docker image is now published for Arm64 so it can be used on Apple Silicon.

Read more about Docker integration.

🎭 Playwright Trace Viewer​

  • run trace viewer with npx playwright 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 Page.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.emulate_media().

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.

Pass strict=true into your action calls to opt in.

# This will throw if you have more than one button!
page.click("button", strict=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 = 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 browser_context.tracing API:

browser = chromium.launch()
context = browser.new_context()

# Start tracing before creating / navigating a page.
context.tracing.start(screenshots=True, snapshots=True)

page.goto("https://playwright.dev")

# Stop tracing and export it into a zip archive.
context.tracing.stop(path = "trace.zip")

Traces are examined later with the Playwright CLI:

playwright 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