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Playwright — one API for three-browser E2E testing and agent-driven web automation

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96,034
Primary language
TypeScript
License
Apache-2.0
Repository last updated
Sep 11, 2026

Overview

Playwright is a web automation and testing platform that drives Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit through one API. Alongside its E2E test runner, it provides a scripting library, a CLI for coding agents, and MCP for AI agents.

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Run browser tests with waiting, isolation, and trace inspection

Playwright Test includes auto-waiting, web-first assertions, a browser context per test, and parallel execution. Failure traces can preserve actions, DOM snapshots, network requests, and console messages, while the same tests run across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit. The README also separates CLI, MCP, Library, and VS Code extension paths.

Sources: [1]

For sharing cross-browser E2E and agent-driven UI workflows

It fits teams bringing web regression tests, browser automation scripts, coding-agent checks, and LLM-driven interaction into one ecosystem. Tests can use resilient locators based on roles, labels, and other signals close to what users perceive.

Sources: [1]

Choose among Test, CLI, MCP, and Library, then align browser versions

Playwright Test, CLI, MCP, and Library have different installation commands and purposes. Decide whether the workflow needs tests, a coding agent, an MCP client, or custom scripts. Supported browser versions move with Playwright releases, so update packages and browser binaries together and reproduce that combination in CI.

Sources: [1]

Official sources

  1. [1]Playwright README(2026-09-13)
Supplemental curator note

Selected for turning a potentially ambiguous common word into a precise search destination while expanding from E2E testing into CLI and MCP workflows for AI agents.

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  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript

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GitHub Topics

  • playwright
  • testing
  • automation
  • webkit
  • firefox
  • e2e-testing
  • web
  • chrome
  • electron
  • javascript
  • chromium
  • end-to-end-testing
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Stars
96,034
Forks
6,422
Watchers
608
Open issues
164
Contributors
472
Primary language
TypeScript
License
Apache-2.0
Repository last updated
Sep 11, 2026
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