How to use sync_playwright method in Playwright Python

I see what the problem here is. It does have to do with pyautogui and playwright not functioning together correctly. I tried searching around to find how to actually get the current mouse position with playwright, but I did not find anything.

So, here is my conclusion:

How did I figure out the problem, and what actually is the problem?

The problem here is that pyautogui actually controls the computer's mouse in this case. It seems like playwright only controls that of the browser. If you add a time.sleep(10) (In order to actually see if the cursor has changed position and to have time to move the cursor at a different position) at the end of the function like so:

def test_simple_move():
    mouse_start_position = pyautogui.position()
    print(mouse_start_position)
    
    with sync_playwright() as playwright:
        browser = playwright.chromium.launch(headless=False, slow_mo=10)
        page = browser.new_page()
        page.goto(r"http://www.uitestingplayground.com/")
        page.mouse.move(100,400)
        mouse_final_position = pyautogui.position()
        print(mouse_final_position)

        time.sleep(10)

You will then see that the actual cursor does not move. It seems like what playwright is doing here is just moving a "virtual" cursor in its browser. In fact, what I did to prove this was:

1. Launch the code
2. While the delay of 10 seconds is going, move the cursor to another point on the screen.
3. Wait for the code to finish.
4. You will now see how the points are different. Here are my points

Have you tried to download it as Binary package?

Maybe you can go over this libasound.so.2 package page and see if you can download it.

wget https://vault.centos.org/centos/8/AppStream/aarch64/os/Packages/alsa-lib-1.2.5-4.el8.aarch64.rpm

When I searched within apt, ubuntu package tool I don't see anything there

root@21be95fca6e6:/# apt search libasound.so.2
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done

For instance, Vim package would appears like below

root@21be95fca6e6:/# apt search vim           
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
apvlv/jammy 0.4.0-2 arm64
  PDF viewer with Vim-like behaviour

With the node case, it's a bit different as you're passively subscribing to an event. In the python snippet, you are basically doing the equivalent of page.waitForResponse. Typically you'll do that in conjunction with some action that triggers the response (such as submitting a form).

Try using the python page.on API. Like this:

import asyncio
from playwright.async_api import async_playwright

def check_response(response):
    print(response.url)
    if 'getVerify' in response.url:
        print("Response URL: ", response.url)

async def main():
    async with async_playwright() as p:
        browser = await p.chromium.launch()
        page = await browser.new_page()
        page.on("response", check_response)
        await page.goto("http://playwright.dev")
        print(await page.title())
        await browser.close()

asyncio.run(main())

I have come up with a solution in Node js puppeteer and I think it work the same way in python. As far as why the button isn't being pressed, I have no idea. But, what does work is entering an address and then clicking the first address suggestion.

Here is my code:

const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');
async function start(){
    const browser = await puppeteer.launch()
    const page = await browser.newPage()
    await page.goto("https://www.ubereats.com/ca")
    await page.type("#location-typeahead-home-input", "Address")
    await page.waitForSelector('#location-typeahead-home-item-0');
    await page.click("#location-typeahead-home-item-0")
    await page.waitForNavigation()

    console.log(page.url())
    await browser.close()
}

start()

as mentioned in https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-python/issues/480

Jupyter notebook uses asyncio event loop, so you should use async api.

from playwright.async_api import async_playwright

playwright = await async_playwright().start()
browser = await playwright.chromium.launch(headless = False)
page = await browser.new_page()

await page.goto("http://whatsmyuseragent.org/")

# await page.screenshot(path="example.png")
# await browser.close()
# await playwright.stop()

If you use sync API, it will throw an Error like this:

from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright
playwright = sync_playwright().start()

'''
Error: It looks like you are using Playwright Sync API inside the asyncio loop.
Please use the Async API instead.
'''

You can simply do as below: (JavaScript)

 const list = await page.locator('locator').allTextContents()
 console.log("The Paragraphs List: => "+ list)

I guess you are using codegen probably.

That page is a little bit strange for urls as I can see.

Anyways, I fixed your code:

from playwright.sync_api import Playwright, sync_playwright, expect


def run(playwright: Playwright) -> None:
    browser = playwright.chromium.launch(headless=False)
    context = browser.new_context()

    # Open new page
    page = context.new_page()

    # Go to https://www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisclosure/ContributionSearchByCommittees.aspx?T=637994490317517425
    page.goto(
        "https://www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisclosure/ContributionSearchByCommittees.aspx")

    # Fill input[name="ctl00\$ContentPlaceHolder1\$txtCmteID"]
    page.locator("input[name=\"ctl00\\$ContentPlaceHolder1\\$txtCmteID\"]").fill("34589")

    page.locator("input:has-text(\"Search\")").click()

    page.locator("text=Download This List").click()

    # Click text=CSV File
    with page.expect_download() as download_info:
        page.locator("text=CSV File").click()
    download = download_info.value
    download.save_as(download.suggested_filename)


    # ---------------------
    context.close()
    browser.close()


with sync_playwright() as playwright:
    run(playwright)

As the documentation says about document.elementFromPoint: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/elementFromPoint

If the specified point is outside the visible bounds of the document or either coordinate is negative, the result is null.

So you can use before window.scrollTo which should fix it: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/scrollTo

You need to install browsers by doing playwright install or python -m playwright install see here: https://playwright.dev/python/docs/intro#installation