What problem does it solve?
Browser automation tasks often take too long and are hard to reproduce, especially when you need to interact with complex pages, forms, and dynamic UI elements reliably.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Automate browser interactions: Navigate pages, click, type, fill fields, and perform common UI operations while keeping execution reproducible.
- Capture and reuse browser state: Create snapshots, save/load storage state (cookies, localStorage, sessionStorage), and manage persistent browser profiles.
- Debug and generate automation artifacts: Record traces, capture screenshots/PDFs, mock or intercept network requests, and generate Playwright test code from recorded actions.
Use case: You need to log into a web app, configure a form, and collect a few fields from the resulting page—using storage state and snapshots to ensure the steps stay consistent across runs.
Quick Start
Use playwright-cli to open a site and interact with elements in a deterministic sequence, for example: open the target page, snapshot the UI, then click the relevant controls and extract what you need.
