v1.15.0

🖱️ Mouse Wheel

By using Page.mouse.wheel you are now able to scroll vertically or horizontally.

📜 New Headers API

Previously it was not possible to get multiple header values of a response. This is now possible and additional helper functions are available:

• Request.all_headers()
• Request.headers_array()
• Request.header_value(name: str)
• Response.all_headers()
• Response.headers_array()
• Response.header_value(name: str)
• Response.header_values(name: str)

🌈 Forced-Colors emulation

Its now possible to emulate the forced-colors CSS media feature by passing it in the context options or calling Page.emulate_media().

New APIs

• Page.route() accepts new times option to specify how many times this route should be matched.
• Page.set_checked(selector: str, checked: bool) and Locator.set_checked(selector: str, checked: bool) was introduced to set the checked state of a checkbox.
• Request.sizes() Returns resource size information for given http request.
• BrowserContext.tracing.start_chunk() - Start a new trace chunk.
• BrowserContext.tracing.stop_chunk() - Stops a new trace chunk.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 96.0.4641.0
• Mozilla Firefox 92.0
• WebKit 15.0

This version of Playwright was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 93
• Microsoft Edge 93

v1.14.1

Highlights

This patch includes bug fixes for the following issues:

microsoft/playwright#8287 - [BUG] webkit crashes intermittently: "file data stream has an unexpected number of bytes"
microsoft/playwright#8281 - [BUG] HTML report crashes if diff snapshot does not exists
microsoft/playwright#8230 - Using React Selectors with multiple React trees
microsoft/playwright#8366 - [BUG] Mark timeout in isVisible as deprecated and noop

Browser Versions

• Chromium 94.0.4595.0
• Mozilla Firefox 91.0
• WebKit 15.0

This version of Playwright was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 92
• Microsoft Edge 92

v1.14.0

⚡️ New "strict" mode

Selector ambiguity is a common problem in automation testing. "strict" mode
ensures that your selector points to a single element and throws otherwise.

Pass strict = true into your action calls to opt in.

# This will throw if you have more than one button!
page.click('button', strict=true)

📍 New Locators API

Locator represents a view to the element(s) on the page. It captures the logic sufficient to retrieve the element at any given moment.

The difference between the Locator and ElementHandle is that the latter points to a particular element, while Locator captures the logic of how to retrieve that element.

Also, locators are "strict" by default!

locator = page.locator('button')
locator.click()

Learn more in the documentation.

🧩 Experimental React and Vue selector engines

React and Vue selectors allow selecting elements by its component name and/or property values. The syntax is very similar to attribute selectors and supports all attribute selector operators.

page.click('_react=SubmitButton[enabled=true]')
page.click('_vue=submit-button[enabled=true]')

Learn more in the react selectors documentation and the vue selectors documentation.

✨ New nth and visible selector engines

• nth selector engine is equivalent to the :nth-match pseudo class, but could be combined with other selector engines.
• visible selector engine is equivalent to the :visible pseudo class, but could be combined with other selector engines.

# select the first button among all buttons
button.click('button >> nth=0')
# or if you are using locators, you can use first(), nth() and last()
page.locator('button').first().click()

# click a visible button
button.click('button >> visible=true')

Browser Versions

• Chromium 94.0.4595.0
• Mozilla Firefox 91.0
• WebKit 15.0

This version of Playwright was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 92
• Microsoft Edge 92

v1.13.1

Highlights

This patch includes bug fixes for the following issues:

#823 - [Bug]: Warning of Future exception was never retrieved when expect_* gets used and throws inside the context manager
#820 - [Bug]: wait_for_load_state("networkidle") was not working
#812 - [Bug]: added hooks for pyinstaller

Browser Versions

• Chromium 93.0.4576.0
• Mozilla Firefox 90.0
• WebKit 14.2

v1.13.0

Playwright

• 🖖 Programmatic drag-and-drop support via the page.drag_and_drop() API.
• 🔎 Enhanced HAR with body sizes for requests and responses. Use via record_har_path option in browser.new_context().

Tools

• Playwright Trace Viewer now shows parameters, returned values and console.log() calls.
• Playwright Inspector can generate Playwright Test tests.

New and Overhauled Guides

• Intro
• Authentication
• Chome Extensions
• Playwright Test Configuration
• Playwright Test Annotations
• Playwright Test Fixtures

Browser Versions

• Chromium 93.0.4576.0
• Mozilla Firefox 90.0
• WebKit 14.2

New Playwright APIs

• new baseURL option in browser.new_context() and browser.new_page()
• response.security_details() and response.server_addr()
• page.drag_and_drop() and frame.drag_and_drop()
• download.cancel()
• page.input_value(), frame.input_value() and element_handle.input_value()
• new force option in page.fill(), frame.fill(), and element_handle.fill()
• new force option in page.select_option(), frame.select_option(), and element_handle.select_option()

v1.12.1

Highlights

This patch release includes bugfixes for the following issues:

microsoft/playwright#7015 - [BUG] Firefox: strange undefined toJSON property on JS objects
microsoft/playwright#7048 - [BUG] Dialogs cannot be dismissed if tracing is on in Chromium or Webkit
microsoft/playwright#7058 - [BUG] Getting no video frame error for mobile chrome

Browser Versions

• Chromium 93.0.4530.0
• Mozilla Firefox 89.0
• WebKit 14.2

This version of Playwright was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 91
• Microsoft Edge 91

v1.12.0

🧟‍♂️ Introducing Playwright Trace & TraceViewer

Playwright Trace Viewer is a new GUI tool that helps exploring recorded Playwright traces after the script ran. Playwright traces let you examine:

• page DOM before and after each Playwright action
• page rendering before and after each Playwright action
• browse network during script execution

Traces are recorded using the new browser_context.tracing API:

browser = chromium.launch()
context = browser.new_context()

# Start tracing before creating / navigating a page.
context.tracing.start(screenshots=True, snapshots=True)

page.goto("https://playwright.dev")

# Stop tracing and export it into a zip archive.
context.tracing.stop(path = "trace.zip")

Traces are examined later with the Playwright CLI:

playwright show-trace trace.zip

That will open the following GUI:

👉 Read more in trace viewer documentation.

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Browser Versions

• Chromium 93.0.4530.0
• Mozilla Firefox 89.0
• WebKit 14.2

This version of Playwright was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 91
• Microsoft Edge 91

New APIs

• reduced_motion option in page.emulate_media(), browser_type.launch_persistent_context(), browser.new_context() and browser.new_page()
• browser_context.on("request")
• browser_context.on("requestfailed")
• browser_context.on("requestfinished")
• browser_context.on("response")
• traces_dir option in browser_type.launch() and browser_type.launch_persistent_context()
• new browser_context.tracing API namespace
• new download.page getter

v1.11.2

Highlights

This patch includes bug fixes across all languages for the following issues:

• #679 - can't get browser's context pages after connect_over_cdp
• microsoft/playwright-java#432 - [Bug] Videos are not complete when an exception is thrown

Browser Versions

• Chromium 92.0.4498.0
• Mozilla Firefox 89.0b6
• WebKit 14.2

This version of Playwright was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 90
• Microsoft Edge 90

v1.11.1

Highlights

🐧 Deploy v1.11 on PIP for Ubuntu users
🐍 Release Playwright-Python on Anaconda: https://anaconda.org/Microsoft/playwright

Browser Versions

• Chromium 92.0.4498.0
• Mozilla Firefox 89.0b6
• WebKit 14.2

This version of Playwright was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 90
• Microsoft Edge 90

v1.11.0

Highlights

🎥 New video: Playwright: A New Test Automation Framework for the Modern Web (slides)

• We talked about Playwright
• Showed engineering work behind the scenes
• Did live demos with new features ✨
• Special thanks to applitools for hosting the event and inviting us!

⚙️ Chrome DevTools Protocol support with browser_type.connect_over_cdp().

Browser Versions

• Chromium 92.0.4498.0
• Mozilla Firefox 89.0b6
• WebKit 14.2

This version of Playwright was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 90
• Microsoft Edge 90

New APIs

• new emulation devices: Galaxy S8, Galaxy S9+, Galaxy Tab S4, Pixel 3, Pixel 4
• new methods:
  • browser_type.connect_over_cdp() to connect using Chrome DevTools protocol
  • browser_type.connect() to connect to a Playwright server
  • page.wait_for_url() to ensure navigations to URL
  • video.delete() and video.save_as() to manage screen recording
• new options:
  • screen option in the browser.new_context() method to emulate window.screen dimensions
  • position option in page.check() and page.uncheck() methods
  • trial option to dry-run actions in page.check(), page.uncheck(), page.click(), page.dblclick(), page.hover() and page.tap()
  • headers option in browser_type.connect()