Support for running under browser profiles

[honzajde]

This is especially useful to get rid of all those consent pop-ups that our modern legally compliant web is bloated with....

[simonw]

I'm not sure if this is possible using Playwright. This page of documentation looks like it might be relevant here? https://playwright.dev/docs/api/class-browsertype#browser-type-launch-persistent-context

[honzajde]

I have found several links, this one looks most relevant:

microsoft/playwright#13878

It looks like it is possible

On my machine profiles are here: ~/.config/google-chrome/<Default | Profile 1 | Profile 2 | ...>
Profile of current window can be found via chrome:version as "Profile Path"

Futher, by reading this:
microsoft/playwright#13878 (comment)

It looks like:

Profiles can not be shared with other browsers! And they say that

1. Playwright needs to run in it's own window
2. Playwright can not connect to a running instance;) This was (is?) possible with puppeteer as far as I remember...
3. Existing browser windows using that profile that we want to use with Playwright have to be closed.

So in summary launchPersistentContext should work under the above assumptions.