# microsoft/playwright

Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.

Repository: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/playwright
Homepage: https://playwright.dev
Language: TypeScript
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: playwright, testing, automation, webkit, firefox, e2e-testing, web, chrome, electron, javascript, chromium, end-to-end-testing, test, test-automation, testing-tools
Last push: 2026-08-26T21:04:41+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 98/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 95, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2483, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 34, "gap_med": 13, "n_releases_24m": 34}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 95186, forks 6345 (observed 2026-08-28T04:12:23.564513+00:00)

## What it is
Playwright is a framework for web testing and browser automation that drives Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit through a single API, available for TypeScript, Python, .NET, and Java. It includes a full-featured end-to-end test runner, a browser automation library, a CLI for coding agents, and an MCP server that lets AI agents control browsers via accessibility snapshots.

## Use cases
- run end-to-end tests for a web app across chromium, firefox and webkit
- automate browser interactions in a script, like logging in and scraping a page
- generate test code by recording clicks in the browser
- give an AI coding agent browser control via MCP
- test web apps in CI with parallelism and sharding
- emulate mobile devices like iPhone or Android Chrome in tests
- scrape dynamic javascript-rendered websites

## When to choose
- you need reliable cross-browser end-to-end testing with auto-waiting and isolation
- you want a single API to automate all major browser engines
- you need browser automation for AI agents or LLM workflows
- you want built-in parallelism, tracing, and CI integration
- you need multi-language support (TypeScript, Python, .NET, Java)

## When to avoid
- you only need simple HTTP-level API testing without a browser
- you need to test native desktop or mobile apps rather than web pages
- you want a lightweight unit-testing tool rather than full browser automation
- you cannot download browser binaries in your environment

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: stable
- function: testing, e2e-testing, web-scraping, workflow-automation, mcp, cli
- domain: testing, web-development, developer-tools, artificial-intelligence
- platform: python, dotnet, jvm, cross-platform, cli, browser
- tags: browser-automation, test-runner, chromium, firefox, webkit, headless-browser, ai-agents, codegen, vscode-extension, automation, nodejs

## Member repositories
- microsoft/playwright (main) score 98

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:23.564513+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:12:38.276662+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright (fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:23.564513+00:00, sha 7c2f6e834cce)
  - homepage: https://playwright.dev (fetched 2026-08-28T17:35:15.625978+00:00, sha 1df034c136e5)
  - site_page: https://playwright.dev/docs/intro (fetched 2026-08-28T17:35:15.627997+00:00, sha ca82f3fc94fd)
  - site_page: https://playwright.dev/docs/api/class-playwright (fetched 2026-08-28T17:35:15.629871+00:00, sha 314ddc9f07f7)
  - site_page: https://playwright.dev/python/docs/intro (fetched 2026-08-28T17:35:15.631503+00:00, sha 5c5822e2deaa)
  - site_page: https://playwright.dev/dotnet/docs/intro (fetched 2026-08-28T17:35:15.633127+00:00, sha a6ef7805c7ac)
  - site_page: https://playwright.dev/java/docs/intro (fetched 2026-08-28T17:35:15.634829+00:00, sha 67158ea3c0a4)
  - site_page: https://playwright.dev/docs/getting-started-cli (fetched 2026-08-28T17:35:15.636600+00:00, sha 82b6590e3615)
  - site_page: https://playwright.dev/docs/getting-started-mcp (fetched 2026-08-28T17:35:15.638439+00:00, sha 6059653bd72c)
  - site_page: https://playwright.dev/docs/codegen (fetched 2026-08-28T17:35:15.640334+00:00, sha a9c039d63017)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.