Playwright

JS + Python

Scraping & automation

Control a real browser with code — for testing and web scraping.

What it does

Playwright launches a real browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari) and lets you control it with code. You can click buttons, fill forms, take screenshots, and extract data — automating anything a human could do in a browser.

When to use it

Use this when you need to scrape sites that load content with JavaScript, or automate browser interactions.

Real example

You want to scrape job listings from a site that loads results with JavaScript. Prompt: 'Use Playwright in Python to open the jobs page at https://example.com/jobs, wait for .job-listing elements to appear, then extract the title and company from each and save them to a JSON file.'

Good to know

More powerful than BeautifulSoup for scraping modern, JavaScript-heavy sites. Also the industry standard for browser testing.

Alternatives

BeautifulSoup

Install

$ pip install playwright && playwright install

Use cases

web scrapingbrowser automationtestingscreenshot

Language

JS + Python

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