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Description

Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API that is capable, reliable and fast.

Support and updates

  • Playwright Python has 6589 stars, 601 forks.
  • It has 10 major releases in the past 6 months.
  • It has 5 commits and there are 1 open pull requests.
  • It has 50 open issues and 686 have been closed.

Code statistics

  • Playwright Python has 1598 methods.

Blogs

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How To Run Your First Playwright Test On Cloud

One of the biggest problems I’ve faced when building a test suite is not the writing of the tests but the execution. How can I execute 100s or 1000s of tests in parallel?If I try that on my local machine, it would probably catch fire – so we need a remote environment to send these to.

Complete Selenium WebDriver Tutorial: Guide to Selenium Test Automation

When it comes to web automation testing, there are a number of frameworks like Selenium, Cypress, PlayWright, Puppeteer, etc., that make it to the ‘preferred list’ of frameworks. The choice of test automation framework depends on a range of parameters like type, complexity, scale, along with the framework expertise available within the team. However, it’s no surprise that Selenium is still the most preferred framework among developers and QAs.

11 Best Automated UI Testing Tools In 2022

The web development industry is growing, and many Best Automated UI Testing Tools are available to test your web-based project to ensure it is bug-free and easily accessible for every user. These tools help you test your web project and make it fully compatible with user-end requirements and needs.

How To Use Playwright For Web Scraping with Python

In today’s data-driven world, the ability to access and analyze large amounts of data can give researchers, businesses & organizations a competitive edge. One of the most important & free sources of this data is the Internet, which can be accessed and mined through web scraping.

Playwright tutorial

LambdaTest’s Playwright tutorial will give you a broader idea about the Playwright automation framework, its unique features, and use cases with examples to exceed your understanding of Playwright testing. This tutorial will give A to Z guidance, from installing the Playwright framework to some best practices and advanced concepts.

Chapters:

  1. What is Playwright : Playwright is comparatively new but has gained good popularity. Get to know some history of the Playwright with some interesting facts connected with it.
  2. How To Install Playwright : Learn in detail about what basic configuration and dependencies are required for installing Playwright and run a test. Get a step-by-step direction for installing the Playwright automation framework.
  3. Playwright Futuristic Features: Launched in 2020, Playwright gained huge popularity quickly because of some obliging features such as Playwright Test Generator and Inspector, Playwright Reporter, Playwright auto-waiting mechanism and etc. Read up on those features to master Playwright testing.
  4. What is Component Testing: Component testing in Playwright is a unique feature that allows a tester to test a single component of a web application without integrating them with other elements. Learn how to perform Component testing on the Playwright automation framework.
  5. Inputs And Buttons In Playwright: Every website has Input boxes and buttons; learn about testing inputs and buttons with different scenarios and examples.
  6. Functions and Selectors in Playwright: Learn how to launch the Chromium browser with Playwright. Also, gain a better understanding of some important functions like “BrowserContext,” which allows you to run multiple browser sessions, and “newPage” which interacts with a page.
  7. Handling Alerts and Dropdowns in Playwright : Playwright interact with different types of alerts and pop-ups, such as simple, confirmation, and prompt, and different types of dropdowns, such as single selector and multi-selector get your hands-on with handling alerts and dropdown in Playright testing.
  8. Playwright vs Puppeteer: Get to know about the difference between two testing frameworks and how they are different than one another, which browsers they support, and what features they provide.
  9. Run Playwright Tests on LambdaTest: Playwright testing with LambdaTest leverages test performance to the utmost. You can run multiple Playwright tests in Parallel with the LammbdaTest test cloud. Get a step-by-step guide to run your Playwright test on the LambdaTest platform.
  10. Playwright Python Tutorial: Playwright automation framework support all major languages such as Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, .NET and etc. However, there are various advantages to Python end-to-end testing with Playwright because of its versatile utility. Get the hang of Playwright python testing with this chapter.
  11. Playwright End To End Testing Tutorial: Get your hands on with Playwright end-to-end testing and learn to use some exciting features such as TraceViewer, Debugging, Networking, Component testing, Visual testing, and many more.
  12. Playwright Video Tutorial: Watch the video tutorials on Playwright testing from experts and get a consecutive in-depth explanation of Playwright automation testing.

License

Playwright Python is lincensed under the Apache License 2.0

LambdaTest Community Discussions

StackOverFlow community discussions

Questions
Discussion

How to use scrapy with html content

Trouble waiting for changes to complete that are triggered by Python Playwright `select_option`

Getting an error trying to scrape website using scrapy-playwright

How to wait for element not present using Playwright

How to test a single GET request in parallel for specified count?

How to select an input according to a parent sibling label

Using Python-playwright, how do I make a screenshot without saving it to disk or using a temporary file?

(Playwright async ) How to fix :' AttributeError: 'coroutine' object has no attribute 'inner_text' '

How to use the Playwright library in a Jupyter notebook instead of using a regular .py script (on Windows)

How to use playwright and beautifulsoup on web page which has pagination?

I would suggest write that returned HTML content to a file and use this to scrape local file using:

import scrapy
import os

LOCAL_FILENAME = 'example.html'
LOCAL_FOLDER = 'html_files'
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))


class ExampleSpider(scrapy.Spider):
    name = "example"
    start_urls = [
        f"file://{BASE_DIR}/{LOCAL_FOLDER}/{LOCAL_FILENAME}"
    ]
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72304329/how-to-use-scrapy-with-html-content

Test case code snippets

Database testing - Check column description

Description:

Table columns should have description information available (except for audit columns like created date, created by, etc.)

General webpage functionality - Verify proper URL re-direction

Description:

Clicking on a URL should redirect and land the user on the right URL

API Testing - Check server-side validation

Description:

Verify that the API correctly handles server-side validation and returns the correct HTTP status code and error message.

Accessibility testing - Avoid access keys

Description:

Avoid implementing access keys. When access keys and other keyboard shortcuts are implemented, they must not interfere with existing browser and screen reader provided shortcuts.

Downloads

Playwright Python can be downloaded from it’s GitHub repository - https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-python

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