id | title | toc_max_heading_level |
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- Custom expect message, see test assertions documentation.
- New options [
option: updateMode
] and [option: updateContent
] in [method: Page.routeFromHAR
] and [method: BrowserContext.routeFromHAR
]. - Chaining existing locator objects, see locator docs for details.
- New option [
option: name
] in method [method: Tracing.startChunk
].
- 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
-
New assertion [
method: LocatorAssertions.toBeInViewport
] 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)
- DOM snapshots in trace viewer can be now opened in a separate window.
- New option [
option: Route.fetch.maxRedirects
] for method [method: Route.fetch
]. - Playwright now supports Debian 11 arm64.
- Official docker images now include Node 18 instead of Node 16.
- 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
- 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
-
New method [
method: Route.fetch
] and new optionjson
for [method: 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 [
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()
-
[
method: 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.select_option("Red")
- Option
postData
in method [method: Route.continue
] now supports [Serializable] values.
- 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
- Live Locators in CodeGen. Generate a locator for any element on the page using "Explore" tool.
- [
method: Locator.blur
] - [
method: Locator.clear
]
- 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
With these new APIs writing locators is a joy:
- [
method: Page.getByText
] to locate by text content. - [
method: Page.getByRole
] to locate by ARIA role, ARIA attributes and accessible name. - [
method: Page.getByLabel
] to locate a form control by associated label's text. - [
method: Page.getByTestId
] to locate an element based on itsdata-testid
attribute (other attribute can be configured). - [
method: Page.getByPlaceholder
] to locate an input by placeholder. - [
method: Page.getByAltText
] to locate an element, usually image, by its text alternative. - [
method: Page.getByTitle
] 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.
- 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.
-
[
method: LocatorAssertions.toHaveAttribute
] with an empty value does not match missing attribute anymore. For example, the following snippet will succeed whenbutton
does not have adisabled
attribute.expect(page.get_by_role("button")).to_have_attribute("disabled", "")
- 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
- New option
enabled
for [method: LocatorAssertions.toBeEnabled
]. - [
method: LocatorAssertions.toHaveText
] now pierces open shadow roots. - New option
editable
for [method: LocatorAssertions.toBeEditable
]. - New option
visible
for [method: LocatorAssertions.toBeVisible
].
- New option
max_redirects
for [method: APIRequestContext.get
] and others to limit redirect count. - Python 3.11 is now supported.
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.
- 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
- 🎁 We now ship Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish docker image:
mcr.microsoft.com/playwright/python:v1.32.3-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.
- 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
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 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
We rewrote our Getting Started docs to be more end-to-end testing focused. Check them out on playwright.dev.
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 = await browser.new_context(record_har_path="github.har.zip")
# ... do stuff ...
await context.close()
context = browser.new_context(record_har_path="github.har.zip")
# ... do stuff ...
context.close()
Use the new methods [method: Page.routeFromHAR
] or [method: BrowserContext.routeFromHAR
] to serve matching responses from the HAR file:
await context.route_from_har("github.har.zip")
context.route_from_har("github.har.zip")
Read more in our documentation.
You can now use [method: Route.fallback
] to defer routing to other handlers.
Consider the following example:
# 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)
# 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)
Note that the new methods [method: Page.routeFromHAR
] and [method: BrowserContext.routeFromHAR
] also participate in routing and could be deferred to.
- New method [
method: LocatorAssertions.toHaveValues
] that asserts all selected values of<select multiple>
element. - Methods [
method: LocatorAssertions.toContainText
] and [method: LocatorAssertions.toHaveText
] now acceptignore_case
option.
-
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 = await browser.new_context(service_workers="block") page = await context.new_page()
context = browser.new_context(service_workers="block") page = context.new_page()
-
Using
.zip
path forrecordHar
context option automatically zips the resulting HAR:context = await browser.new_context(record_har_path="github.har.zip")
context = 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 = await browser.new_context(record_har_mode="minimal", record_har_path="har.har")
context = browser.new_context(record_har_mode="minimal", record_har_path="har.har")
-
Playwright now runs on Ubuntu 22 amd64 and Ubuntu 22 arm64.
-
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 [
method: Locator.filter
] API to filter an existing locatorbuttons = page.locator("role=button") # ... submit_button = buttons.filter(has_text="Submit") submit_button.click()
-
Codegen now supports generating Pytest Tests
-
New role selectors that allow selecting elements by their ARIA role, ARIA attributes and accessible name.
# Click a button with accessible name "log in" await page.locator("role=button[name='log in']").click()
# Click a button with accessible name "log in" page.locator("role=button[name='log in']").click()
Read more in our documentation.
-
New
scale
option in [method: Page.screenshot
] for smaller sized screenshots. -
New
caret
option in [method: Page.screenshot
] to control text caret. Defaults to"hide"
.
- The
mcr.microsoft.com/playwright
docker image no longer contains Python. Please usemcr.microsoft.com/playwright/python
as a Playwright-ready docker image with pre-installed Python. - Playwright now supports large file uploads (100s of MBs) via [
method: Locator.setInputFiles
] API.
- 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
- New options for methods [
method: Page.screenshot
], [method: Locator.screenshot
] and [method: ElementHandle.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.
- Option
- Trace Viewer now shows API testing requests.
- [
method: Locator.highlight
] visually reveals element(s) for easier debugging.
- 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 javascriptmcr.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!
- 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
-
Locator now supports a
has
option that makes sure it contains another locator inside:await page.locator("article", has=page.locator(".highlight")).click()
page.locator("article", has=page.locator(".highlight")).click()
Read more in locator documentation
-
New [
method: Locator.page
] -
[
method: Page.screenshot
] and [method: Locator.screenshot
] now automatically hide blinking caret -
Playwright Codegen now generates locators and frame locators
- 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
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 [property: Page.request
] API:
# Do a GET request on behalf of page
res = await page.request.get("http://example.com/foo.json")
# Do a GET request on behalf of page
res = page.request.get("http://example.com/foo.json")
Read more in our documentation.
Playwright for Python 1.18 introduces Web-First Assertions.
Consider the following example:
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")
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")
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.
-
[
method: Locator.dragTo
] -
Each locator can now be optionally filtered by the text it contains:
await page.locator("li", has_text="my item").locator("button").click()
page.locator("li", has_text="my item").locator("button").click()
Read more in locator documentation
accept_downloads
option now defaults toTrue
.sources
option to embed sources into traces.
- 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
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 [method: Page.frameLocator
] or [method: Locator.frameLocator
] method.
locator = page.frame_locator("my-frame").locator("text=Submit")
locator.click()
Read more at our documentation.
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 now supports dynamic filtering
- Report is now a single static HTML file that could be sent by e-mail or as a slack attachment.
- 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
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 [method: Locator.waitFor
].
Playwright Docker image is now published for Arm64 so it can be used on Apple Silicon.
Read more about Docker integration.
- 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.
- 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
By using Page.mouse.wheel
you are now able to scroll vertically or horizontally.
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(name: str)
- Response.all_headers()
- Response.headers_array()
- Response.header_value(name: str)
- Response.header_values(name: str)
Its now possible to emulate the forced-colors
CSS media feature by passing it in the context options or calling Page.emulate_media().
- Page.route() accepts new
times
option to specify how many times this route should be matched. - Page.set_checked(selector: str, checked: bool) and Locator.set_checked(selector: str, checked: bool) was introduced to set the checked state of a checkbox.
- Request.sizes() Returns resource size information for given http request.
- BrowserContext.tracing.start_chunk() - Start a new trace chunk.
- BrowserContext.tracing.stop_chunk() - Stops a new trace chunk.
- Chromium 96.0.4641.0
- Mozilla Firefox 92.0
- WebKit 15.0
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.
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.
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")
- Chromium 94.0.4595.0
- Mozilla Firefox 91.0
- WebKit 15.0
- 🖖 Programmatic drag-and-drop support via the [
method: Page.dragAndDrop
] API. - 🔎 Enhanced HAR with body sizes for requests and responses. Use via
recordHar
option in [method: Browser.newContext
].
- Playwright Trace Viewer now shows parameters, returned values and
console.log()
calls.
- Chromium 93.0.4576.0
- Mozilla Firefox 90.0
- WebKit 14.2
- new
baseURL
option in [method: Browser.newContext
] and [method: Browser.newPage
] - [
method: Response.securityDetails
] and [method: Response.serverAddr
] - [
method: Page.dragAndDrop
] and [method: Frame.dragAndDrop
] - [
method: Download.cancel
] - [
method: Page.inputValue
], [method: Frame.inputValue
] and [method: ElementHandle.inputValue
] - new
force
option in [method: Page.fill
], [method: Frame.fill
], and [method: ElementHandle.fill
] - new
force
option in [method: Page.selectOption
], [method: Frame.selectOption
], and [method: ElementHandle.selectOption
]
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 [property: BrowserContext.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.
- 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
reducedMotion
option in [method: Page.emulateMedia
], [method: BrowserType.launchPersistentContext
], [method: Browser.newContext
] and [method: Browser.newPage
]- [
event: BrowserContext.request
] - [
event: BrowserContext.requestFailed
] - [
event: BrowserContext.requestFinished
] - [
event: BrowserContext.response
] tracesDir
option in [method: BrowserType.launch
] and [method: BrowserType.launchPersistentContext
]- new [
property: BrowserContext.tracing
] API namespace - new [
method: Download.page
] method
🎥 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!
- Chromium 92.0.4498.0
- Mozilla Firefox 89.0b6
- WebKit 14.2
- support for async predicates across the API in methods such as [
method: Page.waitForRequest
] and others - new emulation devices: Galaxy S8, Galaxy S9+, Galaxy Tab S4, Pixel 3, Pixel 4
- new methods:
- [
method: Page.waitForURL
] to await navigations to URL - [
method: Video.delete
] and [method: Video.saveAs
] to manage screen recording
- [
- new options:
screen
option in the [method: Browser.newContext
] method to emulatewindow.screen
dimensionsposition
option in [method: Page.check
] and [method: Page.uncheck
] methodstrial
option to dry-run actions in [method: Page.check
], [method: Page.uncheck
], [method: Page.click
], [method: Page.dblclick
], [method: Page.hover
] and [method: Page.tap
]
- 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.
- 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
browserType.launch()
now accepts the new'channel'
option. Read more in our documentation.
-
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 [
method: 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.
- Chromium 90.0.4421.0
- Mozilla Firefox 86.0b10
- WebKit 14.1
- [
method: Page.pause
].
- Selecting elements based on layout with
:left-of()
,:right-of()
,:above()
and:below()
. - Playwright now includes command line interface, former playwright-cli.
playwright --help
- [
method: Page.selectOption
] now waits for the options to be present. - New methods to assert element state like [
method: Page.isEditable
].
- [
method: ElementHandle.isChecked
]. - [
method: ElementHandle.isDisabled
]. - [
method: ElementHandle.isEditable
]. - [
method: ElementHandle.isEnabled
]. - [
method: ElementHandle.isHidden
]. - [
method: ElementHandle.isVisible
]. - [
method: Page.isChecked
]. - [
method: Page.isDisabled
]. - [
method: Page.isEditable
]. - [
method: Page.isEnabled
]. - [
method: Page.isHidden
]. - [
method: Page.isVisible
]. - New option
'editable'
in [method: ElementHandle.waitForElementState
].
- Chromium 90.0.4392.0
- Mozilla Firefox 85.0b5
- WebKit 14.1
- 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.
- [
method: BrowserContext.storageState
] to get current state for later reuse. storageState
option in [method: Browser.newContext
] and [method: Browser.newPage
] to setup browser context state.
- Chromium 89.0.4344.0
- Mozilla Firefox 84.0b9
- WebKit 14.1