Playwright Python Browser Automation Library Cross Browser Testing

---
name: "Playwright Python Browser Automation Library for Cross-Browser Testing"
slug: "playwright-python-browser-automation-library-cross-browser-testing"
description: "Playwright for Python is Microsoft's cross-browser automation library for Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit. It gives agents and test systems one API for navigation, screenshots, form interaction, assertions, and headless execution across local and CI environments."
github_stars: 14510
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-python"
author: "microsoft"
publisher_type: "Company"
category: "Browser Automation"
framework: "Multi-Framework"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "microsoft/playwright-python"
  github_stars: 14510
---

# Playwright Python Browser Automation Library for Cross-Browser Testing

Playwright for Python is Microsoft's cross-browser automation library for Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit. It gives agents and test systems one API for navigation, screenshots, form interaction, assertions, and headless execution across local and CI environments.

## Prerequisites

node.js, python, go, java

## Installation

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- # 🎭 [Playwright](https://playwright.dev) for Python [![PyPI version](https://badge.fury.io/py/playwright.svg)](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/playwright/) [![Anaconda version](https://img.shields.io/conda/v/microsoft/pl...
- Playwright is a Python library to automate [Chromium](https://www.chromium.org/Home), [Firefox](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/) and [WebKit](https://webkit.org/) browsers with a single API. Playwright deli...
- [https://playwright.dev/python/docs/intro](https://playwright.dev/python/docs/intro)

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- ## Example
- page.screenshot(path=f'example-{browser_type.name}.png')
- await page.screenshot(path=f'example-{browser_type.name}.png')

- Source: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-python
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/playwright-python/HEAD/README.md

## Documentation

- https://playwright.dev/python/docs/intro

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/playwright-python-browser-automation-library-cross-browser-testing/)