mxschmitt/playwright-go

Playwright for Go a browser automation library to control Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/mxschmitt/playwright-go · homepage · Go · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

98/100

Activity 98
Release rhythm 98
Longevity 100

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

gap_med: 27
age_days: 2208
days_rel: 16
days_push: 16
n_releases_24m: 16

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

3481 stars · 242 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Playwright for Go is a Go library that automates Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit browsers through a single API, supporting both headless and headed execution. It is a community port of the Playwright browser automation tool, enabling cross-browser web automation, scraping, and end-to-end testing from Go code.

Use cases

automate a browser from Go code
scrape dynamic web pages that require JavaScript rendering
run end-to-end browser tests in Go
take screenshots or generate PDFs of web pages
fill forms and click through web flows programmatically
test web apps across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit

When to choose

you need browser automation in a Go project with a single cross-browser API
you want a maintained Selenium alternative for Go with headless support
you need to scrape or test JavaScript-heavy sites from Go

When to avoid

you are not using Go and want first-class Playwright support (use the official JavaScript, Python, Java, or .NET versions)
you only need simple HTTP requests without a real browser
you need the newest Playwright features immediately, since this port can lag behind upstream

Facets

library · maturity active

http-client web-scraping testing e2e-testing workflow-automation web-development testing developer-tools crawlers windows go cross-platform cli browser-automation playwright headless-browser selenium-alternative chromium firefox webkit scraping automation linux macos

2 sources

readme: https://github.com/mxschmitt/playwright-go · fetched 2026-08-28 · 64d6be598213
homepage: https://mxschmitt.github.io/playwright-go/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · f0d47c7fbf12

Member repositories

Repository	Role	Health v2
mxschmitt/playwright-go	main	98

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