Highlights
🚀 [`playwright-cli`](https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-cli) is now public!
Playwright **C**ommand **L**ine **I**nterface can:
- Open pages in Chromium, Firefox and WebKit (Safari) on all platforms
sh
$ npx playwright-cli open wikipedia.org
- Record user interactions and generate Playwright scripts
sh
$ npx playwright-cli codegen wikipedia.org
- multi-page scenarios
- text-based selectors
- downloads, uploads
- many more!
- Emulate devices, color schemes, geolocation, etc
sh
$ npx playwright-cli --device="iPhone 11" open wikipedia.org
- Use DevTools console to inspect Playwright selectors
> playwright.inspect('text=Log in')
- Generate page screenshots and PDFs
sh
$ npx playwright-cli screenshot --help
<img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/284612/92536033-7e7ebe00-f1ed-11ea-9e1a-7cbd912e3391.gif">
🎥 Record videos (**experimental**)
Record videos of your scripts, every page and popup is captured!
js
const fs = require('fs');
const { chromium } = require('playwright');
(async () => {
const browser = await chromium.launch({
_videosPath: __dirname // save videos here.
});
const context = await browser.newContext({
_recordVideos: { width: 1024, height: 768 }, // downscale
});
const page = await context.newPage();
const video = await page.waitForEvent('_videostarted');
await page.goto('https://github.com/microsoft/playwright');
// ... perform actions
await page.close();
fs.renameSync(await video.path(), 'video.webm');
await browser.close();
})();
☁ New Client / Server Wire protocol
In the last release, we introduced an internal protocol to support Playwright in the none-Node environments. It is already used in the [Playwright for Python](https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-python) as well as in third party [PlaywrightSharp](https://github.com/hardkoded/playwright-sharp) and [Playwright for Go](https://github.com/mxschmitt/playwright-go) implementations.
With v1.4, we are taking it one step further and migrate Node version of the library along with its client-server mode to be based on this new protocol. So if you are using `browserType.connect` against cloud services or internally, you need to make sure that the service is also updated to v1.4 before you can use it.
Browser Versions
- Chromium 86.0.4238.0
- Mozilla Firefox 80.0b8
- WebKit 14.0
New APIs
- [`frame.page()`](https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/blob/v1.4.0/docs/api.md#framepage)
- [`elementHandle.waitForElementState(state[, options])`](https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/blob/v1.4.0/docs/api.md#elementhandlewaitforelementstatestate-options)
- [`elementHandle.waitForSelector(selector[, options])`](https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/blob/v1.4.0/docs/api.md#elementhandlewaitforselectorselector-options)
- **experimental** `_videosPath` option in [`browserType.launch()`](https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/blob/v1.4.0/docs/api.md#browsertypelaunchoptions), [`browserType.launchPersistentContext()`](https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/blob/v1.4.0/docs/api.md#browsertypelaunchpersistentcontextuserdatadir-options) and [`browserType.launchServer()`](https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/blob/v1.4.0/docs/api.md#browsertypelaunchserveroptions).
- **experimental** `_recordVideos` option in [`browser.newContext()`](https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/blob/v1.4.0/docs/api.md#browsernewcontextoptions), [`browser.newPage()`](https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/blob/v1.4.0/docs/api.md#browsernewpageoptions) and [`browserType.launchPersistentContext()`](https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/blob/v1.4.0/docs/api.md#browsertypelaunchpersistentcontextuserdatadir-options)
- **experimental** [`page.on('_videostarted')`](https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/blob/v1.4.0/docs/api.md#event-_videostarted)
Breaking changes for Docker and CI users
- `root` user is used in the default Docker image https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/commit/5f6441e6dfb5d5ff0795d0b4a9b31c6b7d44d16d
- `ffmpeg` dependency is required when running Chromium
<details>
<summary><b>Issues Closed (73)</b></summary>
632 - [BUG] setInputFiles does fetch that fails due to CSP
1396 - [Question] Performance issues on Firefox?
1400 - [Feature] debugging client script
1568 - [BUG] Playwright cannot talk to Chromium on Heroku
1605 - Parrallel execution[Question]
1626 - [Feature] Playwright Recorder
1654 - [Feature] Command events/hooks
1935 - [BUG] cant create webkit context
2053 - How to use playwrite to log in as various users in another ntlm domain?
2054 - [Feature] page.waitForActionable()
2086 - [BUG] Firefox on Appveyor seems flaky
2124 - [Feature] https://playwright.dev/ should have a link to GitHub
2236 - [Feature] Ability to test printing
2321 - [BUG] Google Cloud Function error (deploy)
2363 - [Feature] Pass timeout in the BrowserContextOptions for newContext
2366 - [Feature] Allow PDF to be returned as a stream.
2450 - [BUG] Error: NS_ERROR_CONNECTION_REFUSED while navigating to http://localhost:8000
2453 - [BUG] Text selector not found in open shadow root
2526 - [BUG]Wait for navigation with url and wait until network idle fail to respond and time out
2556 - [Question] page.evaluate() issues with xpath
2559 - [Question] Running WebKit GTK on Ubuntu 20.04
2573 - [BUG] Can't click 2FA duo button.
2587 - How can I call an external function in class inside page.evaluateHandle(...) context
2603 - How to make page bring to front