Release notes

Version 1.52

Highlights

• New method expect(locator).to_contain_class() to ergonomically assert individual class names on the element.

    expect(page.get_by_role('listitem', name='Ship v1.52')).to_contain_class('done')

• Aria Snapshots got two new properties: /children for strict matching and /url for links.

  expect(locator).to_match_aria_snapshot("""
    - list
      - /children: equal
      - listitem: Feature A
      - listitem:
        - link "Feature B":
          - /url: "https://playwright.dev"
  """)

Miscellaneous

• New option max_redirects in api_request.new_context() to control the maximum number of redirects.
• New option ref in locator.aria_snapshot() to generate reference for each element in the snapshot which can later be used to locate the element.

Breaking Changes

• Glob URL patterns in methods like page.route() do not support ? and [] anymore. We recommend using regular expressions instead.
• Method route.continue_() does not allow to override the Cookie header anymore. If a Cookie header is provided, it will be ignored, and the cookie will be loaded from the browser's cookie store. To set custom cookies, use browser_context.add_cookies().
• macOS 13 is now deprecated and will no longer receive WebKit updates. Please upgrade to a more recent macOS version to continue benefiting from the latest WebKit improvements.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 136.0.7103.25
• Mozilla Firefox 137.0
• WebKit 18.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 135
• Microsoft Edge 135

Version 1.51

Highlights

• New option indexed_db for browser_context.storage_state() allows to save and restore IndexedDB contents. Useful when your application uses IndexedDB API to store authentication tokens, like Firebase Authentication.

  Here is an example following the authentication guide:

  # Save storage state into the file. Make sure to include IndexedDB.
  storage = await context.storage_state(path="state.json", indexed_db=True)
  
  # Create a new context with the saved storage state.
  context = await browser.new_context(storage_state="state.json")

• New option visible for locator.filter() allows matching only visible elements.

  # Ignore invisible todo items.
  todo_items = page.get_by_test_id("todo-item").filter(visible=True)
  # Check there are exactly 3 visible ones.
  await expect(todo_items).to_have_count(3)

• New option contrast for methods page.emulate_media() and browser.new_context() allows to emulate the prefers-contrast media feature.

• New option fail_on_status_code makes all fetch requests made through the APIRequestContext throw on response codes other than 2xx and 3xx.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 134.0.6998.35
• Mozilla Firefox 135.0
• WebKit 18.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 133
• Microsoft Edge 133

Version 1.50

Async Pytest Plugin

• Playwright's Pytest plugin now has support for Async Fixtures.

Miscellaneous

• Added method expect(locator).to_have_accessible_error_message() to assert the Locator points to an element with a given aria errormessage.

UI updates

• New button in Codegen for picking elements to produce aria snapshots.
• Additional details (such as keys pressed) are now displayed alongside action API calls in traces.
• Display of canvas content in traces is error-prone. Display is now disabled by default, and can be enabled via the Display canvas content UI setting.
• Call and Network panels now display additional time information.

Breaking

• expect(locator).to_be_editable() and locator.is_editable() now throw if the target element is not <input>, <select>, or a number of other editable elements.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 133.0.6943.16
• Mozilla Firefox 134.0
• WebKit 18.2

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 132
• Microsoft Edge 132

Version 1.49

Aria snapshots

New assertion expect(locator).to_match_aria_snapshot() verifies page structure by comparing to an expected accessibility tree, represented as YAML.

page.goto("https://playwright.dev")
expect(page.locator('body')).to_match_aria_snapshot('''
  - banner:
    - heading /Playwright enables reliable/ [level=1]
    - link "Get started"
    - link "Star microsoft/playwright on GitHub"
  - main:
    - img "Browsers (Chromium, Firefox, WebKit)"
    - heading "Any browser • Any platform • One API"
''')

You can generate this assertion with Test Generator or by calling locator.aria_snapshot().

Learn more in the aria snapshots guide.

Tracing groups

New method tracing.group() allows you to visually group actions in the trace viewer.

# All actions between group and group_end
# will be shown in the trace viewer as a group.
page.context.tracing.group("Open Playwright.dev > API")
page.goto("https://playwright.dev/")
page.get_by_role("link", name="API").click()
page.context.tracing.group_end()

Breaking: chrome and msedge channels switch to new headless mode

This change affects you if you're using one of the following channels in your playwright.config.ts:

• chrome, chrome-dev, chrome-beta, or chrome-canary
• msedge, msedge-dev, msedge-beta, or msedge-canary

After updating to Playwright v1.49, run your test suite. If it still passes, you're good to go. If not, you will probably need to update your snapshots, and adapt some of your test code around PDF viewers and extensions. See issue #33566 for more details.

Try new Chromium headless

You can opt into the new headless mode by using 'chromium' channel. As official Chrome documentation puts it:

New Headless on the other hand is the real Chrome browser, and is thus more authentic, reliable, and offers more features. This makes it more suitable for high-accuracy end-to-end web app testing or browser extension testing.

See issue #33566 for the list of possible breakages you could encounter and more details on Chromium headless. Please file an issue if you see any problems after opting in.

pytest test_login.py --browser-channel chromium

Miscellaneous

• There will be no more updates for WebKit on Ubuntu 20.04 and Debian 11. We recommend updating your OS to a later version.
• <canvas> elements inside a snapshot now draw a preview.
• Python 3.8 is not supported anymore.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 131.0.6778.33
• Mozilla Firefox 132.0
• WebKit 18.2

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 130
• Microsoft Edge 130

Version 1.48

WebSocket routing

New methods page.route_web_socket() and browser_context.route_web_socket() allow to intercept, modify and mock WebSocket connections initiated in the page. Below is a simple example that mocks WebSocket communication by responding to a "request" with a "response".

def message_handler(ws: WebSocketRoute, message: Union[str, bytes]):
  if message == "request":
    ws.send("response")

page.route_web_socket("/ws", lambda ws: ws.on_message(
    lambda message: message_handler(ws, message)
))

See WebSocketRoute for more details.

UI updates

• New "copy" buttons for annotations and test location in the HTML report.
• Route method calls like route.fulfill() are not shown in the report and trace viewer anymore. You can see which network requests were routed in the network tab instead.
• New "Copy as cURL" and "Copy as fetch" buttons for requests in the network tab.

Miscellaneous

• New method page.request_gc() may help detect memory leaks.
• Requests made by APIRequestContext now record detailed timing and security information in the HAR.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 130.0.6723.19
• Mozilla Firefox 130.0
• WebKit 18.0

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 129
• Microsoft Edge 129

Version 1.47

Network Tab improvements

The Network tab in the trace viewer has several nice improvements:

• filtering by asset type and URL
• better display of query string parameters
• preview of font assets

Miscellaneous

• The mcr.microsoft.com/playwright/python:v1.47.0 now serves a Playwright image based on Ubuntu 24.04 Noble. To use the 22.04 jammy-based image, please use mcr.microsoft.com/playwright/python:v1.47.0-jammy instead.
• The :latest/:focal/:jammy tag for Playwright Docker images is no longer being published. Pin to a specific version for better stability and reproducibility.
• TLS client certificates can now be passed from memory by passing client_certificates.cert and client_certificates.key as bytes instead of file paths.
• no_wait_after in locator.select_option() was deprecated.
• We've seen reports of WebGL in Webkit misbehaving on GitHub Actions macos-13. We recommend upgrading GitHub Actions to macos-14.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 129.0.6668.29
• Mozilla Firefox 130.0
• WebKit 18.0

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 128
• Microsoft Edge 128

Version 1.46

TLS Client Certificates

Playwright now allows to supply client-side certificates, so that server can verify them, as specified by TLS Client Authentication.

You can provide client certificates as a parameter of browser.new_context() and api_request.new_context(). The following snippet sets up a client certificate for https://example.com:

context = browser.new_context(
    client_certificates=[
        {
            "origin": "https://example.com",
            "certPath": "client-certificates/cert.pem",
            "keyPath": "client-certificates/key.pem",
        }
    ],
)

Trace Viewer Updates

• Content of text attachments is now rendered inline in the attachments pane.
• New setting to show/hide routing actions like route.continue_().
• Request method and status are shown in the network details tab.
• New button to copy source file location to clipboard.
• Metadata pane now displays the base_url.

Miscellaneous

• New maxRetries option in api_request_context.fetch() which retries on the ECONNRESET network error.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 128.0.6613.18
• Mozilla Firefox 128.0
• WebKit 18.0

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 127
• Microsoft Edge 127

Version 1.45

Clock

Utilizing the new Clock API allows to manipulate and control time within tests to verify time-related behavior. This API covers many common scenarios, including:

• testing with predefined time;
• keeping consistent time and timers;
• monitoring inactivity;
• ticking through time manually.

# Initialize clock with some time before the test time and let the page load
# naturally. `Date.now` will progress as the timers fire.
page.clock.install(time=datetime.datetime(2024, 2, 2, 8, 0, 0))
page.goto("http://localhost:3333")

# Pretend that the user closed the laptop lid and opened it again at 10am.
# Pause the time once reached that point.
page.clock.pause_at(datetime.datetime(2024, 2, 2, 10, 0, 0))

# Assert the page state.
expect(page.get_by_test_id("current-time")).to_have_text("2/2/2024, 10:00:00 AM")

# Close the laptop lid again and open it at 10:30am.
page.clock.fast_forward("30:00")
expect(page.get_by_test_id("current-time")).to_have_text("2/2/2024, 10:30:00 AM")

See the clock guide for more details.

Miscellaneous

• Method locator.set_input_files() now supports uploading a directory for <input type=file webkitdirectory> elements.

  page.get_by_label("Upload directory").set_input_files('mydir')

• Multiple methods like locator.click() or locator.press() now support a ControlOrMeta modifier key. This key maps to Meta on macOS and maps to Control on Windows and Linux.

  # Press the common keyboard shortcut Control+S or Meta+S to trigger a "Save" operation.
  page.keyboard.press("ControlOrMeta+S")

• New property httpCredentials.send in api_request.new_context() that allows to either always send the Authorization header or only send it in response to 401 Unauthorized.

• Playwright now supports Chromium, Firefox and WebKit on Ubuntu 24.04.

• v1.45 is the last release to receive WebKit update for macOS 12 Monterey. Please update macOS to keep using the latest WebKit.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 127.0.6533.5
• Mozilla Firefox 127.0
• WebKit 17.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 126
• Microsoft Edge 126

Version 1.44

New APIs

Accessibility assertions

• expect(locator).to_have_accessible_name() checks if the element has the specified accessible name:

  locator = page.get_by_role("button")
  expect(locator).to_have_accessible_name("Submit")

• expect(locator).to_have_accessible_description() checks if the element has the specified accessible description:

  locator = page.get_by_role("button")
  expect(locator).to_have_accessible_description("Upload a photo")

• expect(locator).to_have_role() checks if the element has the specified ARIA role:

  locator = page.get_by_test_id("save-button")
  expect(locator).to_have_role("button")

Locator handler

• After executing the handler added with page.add_locator_handler(), Playwright will now wait until the overlay that triggered the handler is not visible anymore. You can opt-out of this behavior with the new no_wait_after option.
• You can use new times option in page.add_locator_handler() to specify maximum number of times the handler should be run.
• The handler in page.add_locator_handler() now accepts the locator as argument.
• New page.remove_locator_handler() method for removing previously added locator handlers.

locator = page.get_by_text("This interstitial covers the button")
page.add_locator_handler(locator, lambda overlay: overlay.locator("#close").click(), times=3, no_wait_after=True)
# Run your tests that can be interrupted by the overlay.
# ...
page.remove_locator_handler(locator)

Miscellaneous options

• expect(page).to_have_url() now supports ignore_case option.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 125.0.6422.14
• Mozilla Firefox 125.0.1
• WebKit 17.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 124
• Microsoft Edge 124

Version 1.43

New APIs

• Method browser_context.clear_cookies() now supports filters to remove only some cookies.

  # Clear all cookies.
  context.clear_cookies()
  # New: clear cookies with a particular name.
  context.clear_cookies(name="session-id")
  # New: clear cookies for a particular domain.
  context.clear_cookies(domain="my-origin.com")

• New method locator.content_frame converts a Locator object to a FrameLocator. This can be useful when you have a Locator object obtained somewhere, and later on would like to interact with the content inside the frame.

  locator = page.locator("iframe[name='embedded']")
  # ...
  frame_locator = locator.content_frame
  frame_locator.getByRole("button").click()

• New method frame_locator.owner converts a FrameLocator object to a Locator. This can be useful when you have a FrameLocator object obtained somewhere, and later on would like to interact with the iframe element.

  frame_locator = page.frame_locator("iframe[name='embedded']")
  # ...
  locator = frame_locator.owner
  expect(locator).to_be_visible()

• Conda builds are now published for macOS-arm64 and Linux-arm64.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 124.0.6367.8
• Mozilla Firefox 124.0
• WebKit 17.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 123
• Microsoft Edge 123

Version 1.42

New Locator Handler

New method page.add_locator_handler() registers a callback that will be invoked when specified element becomes visible and may block Playwright actions. The callback can get rid of the overlay. Here is an example that closes a cookie dialog when it appears.

# Setup the handler.
page.add_locator_handler(
    page.get_by_role("heading", name="Hej! You are in control of your cookies."),
    lambda: page.get_by_role("button", name="Accept all").click(),
)
# Write the test as usual.
page.goto("https://www.ikea.com/")
page.get_by_role("link", name="Collection of blue and white").click()
expect(page.get_by_role("heading", name="Light and easy")).to_be_visible()

New APIs

• page.pdf() accepts two new options tagged and outline.

Announcements

• ⚠️ Ubuntu 18 is not supported anymore.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 123.0.6312.4
• Mozilla Firefox 123.0
• WebKit 17.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 122
• Microsoft Edge 123

Version 1.41

New APIs

• New method page.unroute_all() removes all routes registered by page.route() and page.route_from_har(). Optionally allows to wait for ongoing routes to finish, or ignore any errors from them.
• New method browser_context.unroute_all() removes all routes registered by browser_context.route() and browser_context.route_from_har(). Optionally allows to wait for ongoing routes to finish, or ignore any errors from them.
• New options style in page.screenshot() and style in locator.screenshot() to add custom CSS to the page before taking a screenshot.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 121.0.6167.57
• Mozilla Firefox 121.0
• WebKit 17.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 120
• Microsoft Edge 120

Version 1.40

Test Generator Update

New tools to generate assertions:

• "Assert visibility" tool generates expect(locator).to_be_visible().
• "Assert value" tool generates expect(locator).to_have_value().
• "Assert text" tool generates expect(locator).to_contain_text().

Here is an example of a generated test with assertions:

from playwright.sync_api import Page, expect

def test_example(page: Page) -> None:
    page.goto("https://playwright.dev/")
    page.get_by_role("link", name="Get started").click()
    expect(page.get_by_label("Breadcrumbs").get_by_role("list")).to_contain_text("Installation")
    expect(page.get_by_label("Search")).to_be_visible()
    page.get_by_label("Search").click()
    page.get_by_placeholder("Search docs").fill("locator")
    expect(page.get_by_placeholder("Search docs")).to_have_value("locator");

New APIs

• Options reason in page.close(), reason in browser_context.close() and reason in browser.close(). Close reason is reported for all operations interrupted by the closure.
• Option firefox_user_prefs in browser_type.launch_persistent_context().

Other Changes

• Method download.path() throws an error for failed and cancelled downloads.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 120.0.6099.28
• Mozilla Firefox 119.0
• WebKit 17.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 119
• Microsoft Edge 119

Version 1.39

Evergreen browsers update.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 119.0.6045.9
• Mozilla Firefox 118.0.1
• WebKit 17.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 118
• Microsoft Edge 118

Version 1.38

Trace Viewer Updates

1. Zoom into time range.
2. Network panel redesign.

New APIs

• browser_context.on("weberror")
• locator.press_sequentially()

Deprecations

• The following methods were deprecated: page.type(), frame.type(), locator.type() and element_handle.type(). Please use locator.fill() instead which is much faster. Use locator.press_sequentially() only if there is a special keyboard handling on the page, and you need to press keys one-by-one.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 117.0.5938.62
• Mozilla Firefox 117.0
• WebKit 17.0

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 116
• Microsoft Edge 116

Version 1.37

Highlights

• New --full-page-screenshot command line flag allows taking a full page screenshot on failure.
• It is now possible to override the context options for a single test by using the browser_context_args marker.
• pytest-playwright is now also getting published on Anaconda

📚 Debian 12 Bookworm Support

Playwright now supports Debian 12 Bookworm on both x86_64 and arm64 for Chromium, Firefox and WebKit. Let us know if you encounter any issues!

Linux support looks like this:

	Ubuntu 20.04	Ubuntu 22.04	Debian 11	Debian 12
Chromium	✅	✅	✅	✅
WebKit	✅	✅	✅	✅
Firefox	✅	✅	✅	✅

Browser Versions

• Chromium 116.0.5845.82
• Mozilla Firefox 115.0
• WebKit 17.0

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 115
• Microsoft Edge 115

Version 1.36

🏝️ Summer maintenance release.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 115.0.5790.75
• Mozilla Firefox 115.0
• WebKit 17.0

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 114
• Microsoft Edge 114

Version 1.35

Highlights

• New option mask_color for methods page.screenshot() and locator.screenshot() to change default masking color.

• New uninstall CLI command to uninstall browser binaries:

  $ playwright uninstall # remove browsers installed by this installation
  $ playwright uninstall --all # remove all ever-install Playwright browsers

Browser Versions

• Chromium 115.0.5790.13
• Mozilla Firefox 113.0
• WebKit 16.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 114
• Microsoft Edge 114

Version 1.34

Highlights

• New locator.and_() to create a locator that matches both locators.

  button = page.get_by_role("button").and_(page.get_by_title("Subscribe"))

• New events browser_context.on("console") and browser_context.on("dialog") to subscribe to any dialogs and console messages from any page from the given browser context. Use the new methods console_message.page and dialog.page to pin-point event source.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 114.0.5735.26
• Mozilla Firefox 113.0
• WebKit 16.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 113
• Microsoft Edge 113

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

• locator.or_()
• New option has_not in locator.filter()
• New option has_not_text in locator.filter()
• expect(locator).to_be_attached()
• New option timeout in route.fetch()

⚠️ 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

• Custom expect message, see test assertions documentation.
• New options update_mode and update_content in page.route_from_har() and browser_context.route_from_har().
• Chaining existing locator objects, see locator docs for details.
• New option name in method tracing.start_chunk().

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 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</option>
    <option value="green">Green</option>
    <option value="blue">Blue</option>
  </select>

  element.select_option("Red")

Miscellaneous

• Option postData in method route.continue_() now supports Serializable values.

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.

New APIs

• locator.blur()
• locator.clear()

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_text() to locate by text content.
• page.get_by_role() to locate by ARIA role, ARIA attributes and accessible name.
• page.get_by_label() to locate a form control by associated label's text.
• page.get_by_test_id() to locate an element based on its data-testid attribute (other attribute can be configured).
• page.get_by_placeholder() to locate an input by placeholder.
• page.get_by_alt_text() to locate an element, usually image, by its text alternative.
• page.get_by_title() to locate an element by its title.

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.

  expect(page.get_by_role("button")).to_have_attribute("disabled", "")

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

• New option enabled for expect(locator).to_be_enabled().
• expect(locator).to_have_text() now pierces open shadow roots.
• New option editable for expect(locator).to_be_editable().
• New option visible for expect(locator).to_be_visible().

Other highlights

• New option max_redirects for api_request_context.get() and others to limit redirect count.
• Python 3.11 is now supported.

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 20.04 | Ubuntu 22.04 | Debian 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:

Sync

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

Async

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:

Sync

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

Async

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:

Sync

# 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)

Async

# 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

• New method expect(locator).to_have_values() that asserts all selected values of <select multiple> element.
• Methods expect(locator).to_contain_text() and expect(locator).to_have_text() now accept ignore_case option.

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:

  Sync

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

  Async

  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:

  Sync

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

  Async

  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:

  Sync

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

  Async

  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

  

Version 1.21

Highlights

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

  Sync

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

  Async

  # 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

• New options for methods page.screenshot(), locator.screenshot() and element_handle.screenshot():
  • Option animations: "disabled" rewinds all CSS animations and transitions to a consistent state
  • Option mask: Locator[] masks given elements, overlaying them with pink #FF00FF boxes.
• Trace Viewer now shows API testing requests.
• locator.highlight() visually reveals element(s) for easier debugging.

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:

  Sync

  page.locator("article", has=page.locator(".highlight")).click()

  Async

  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:

Sync

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

Async

# 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:

Sync

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")

Async

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:

  Sync

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

  Async

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

  Read more in locator documentation

New APIs & changes

• accept_downloads option now defaults to True.
• sources option to embed sources into traces.

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.

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

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.

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 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:

• request.all_headers()
• request.headers_array()
• request.header_value()
• response.all_headers()
• response.headers_array()
• response.header_value()
• response.header_values()

🌈 Forced-Colors emulation

Its now possible to emulate the forced-colors CSS media feature by passing it in the browser.new_context() or calling page.emulate_media().

New APIs

• page.route() accepts new times option to specify how many times this route should be matched.
• page.set_checked() and locator.set_checked() were introduced to set the checked state of a checkbox.
• request.sizes() Returns resource size information for given http request.
• tracing.start_chunk() - Start a new trace chunk.
• tracing.stop_chunk() - Stops a new trace chunk.

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

• 🖖 Programmatic drag-and-drop support via the page.drag_and_drop() API.
• 🔎 Enhanced HAR with body sizes for requests and responses. Use via recordHar option in browser.new_context().

Tools

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

New and Overhauled Guides

• Intro
• Authentication
• Chrome Extensions

Browser Versions

• Chromium 93.0.4576.0
• Mozilla Firefox 90.0
• WebKit 14.2

New Playwright APIs

• new baseURL option in browser.new_context() and browser.new_page()
• response.security_details() and response.server_addr()
• page.drag_and_drop() and frame.drag_and_drop()
• download.cancel()
• page.input_value(), frame.input_value() and element_handle.input_value()
• new force option in page.fill(), frame.fill(), and element_handle.fill()
• new force option in page.select_option(), frame.select_option(), and element_handle.select_option()

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:

👉 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

• reducedMotion option in page.emulate_media(), browser_type.launch_persistent_context(), browser.new_context() and browser.new_page()
• browser_context.on("request")
• browser_context.on("requestfailed")
• browser_context.on("requestfinished")
• browser_context.on("response")
• tracesDir option in browser_type.launch() and browser_type.launch_persistent_context()
• new browser_context.tracing API namespace
• new download.page method

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

• support for async predicates across the API in methods such as page.expect_request() and others
• new emulation devices: Galaxy S8, Galaxy S9+, Galaxy Tab S4, Pixel 3, Pixel 4
• new methods:
  • page.wait_for_url() to await navigations to URL
  • video.delete() and video.save_as() to manage screen recording
• new options:
  • screen option in the browser.new_context() method to emulate window.screen dimensions
  • position option in page.check() and page.uncheck() methods
  • trial option to dry-run actions in page.check(), page.uncheck(), page.click(), page.dblclick(), page.hover() and page.tap()

Version 1.10

• Playwright for Java v1.10 is now stable!
• Run Playwright against Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge stable channels with the new channels API.
• Chromium screenshots are fast on Mac & Windows.

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

• browser_type.launch() now accepts the new 'channel' option. Read more in our documentation.

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

• page.pause().

Version 1.8

• Selecting elements based on layout with :left-of(), :right-of(), :above() and :below().

• Playwright now includes command line interface, former playwright-cli.

  playwright --help

• page.select_option() now waits for the options to be present.

• New methods to assert element state like page.is_editable().

New APIs

• element_handle.is_checked().
• element_handle.is_disabled().
• element_handle.is_editable().
• element_handle.is_enabled().
• element_handle.is_hidden().
• element_handle.is_visible().
• page.is_checked().
• page.is_disabled().
• page.is_editable().
• page.is_enabled().
• page.is_hidden().
• page.is_visible().
• New option 'editable' in element_handle.wait_for_element_state().

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_context.storage_state() to get current state for later reuse.
• storageState option in browser.new_context() and browser.new_page() to setup browser context state.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 89.0.4344.0
• Mozilla Firefox 84.0b9
• WebKit 14.1