🎭 Playwright for Java

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Playwright is a Java library to automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API. Playwright is built to enable cross-browser web automation that is ever-green, capable, reliable and fast.

	Linux	macOS	Windows
Chromium 134.0.6998.35	✅	✅	✅
WebKit 18.4	✅	✅	✅
Firefox 135.0	✅	✅	✅

Headless execution is supported for all the browsers on all platforms. Check out system requirements for details.

• Usage
  • Add Maven dependency
  • Is Playwright thread-safe?
• Examples
  • Page screenshot
  • Mobile and geolocation
  • Evaluate JavaScript in browser
  • Intercept network requests
• Documentation
• Contributing
• Is Playwright for Java ready?

Documentation

https://playwright.dev/java/docs/intro

API Reference

https://playwright.dev/java/docs/api/class-playwright

Example

This code snippet navigates to Playwright homepage in Chromium, Firefox and WebKit, and saves 3 screenshots.

import com.microsoft.playwright.*;

import java.nio.file.Paths;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;

public class PageScreenshot {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    try (Playwright playwright = Playwright.create()) {
      List<BrowserType> browserTypes = Arrays.asList(
        playwright.chromium(),
        playwright.webkit(),
        playwright.firefox()
      );
      for (BrowserType browserType : browserTypes) {
        try (Browser browser = browserType.launch()) {
          BrowserContext context = browser.newContext();
          Page page = context.newPage();
          page.navigate("https://playwright.dev/");
          page.screenshot(new Page.ScreenshotOptions().setPath(Paths.get("screenshot-" + browserType.name() + ".png")));
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Other languages

More comfortable in another programming language? Playwright is also available in

• Node.js (JavaScript / TypeScript),
• Python.
• .NET,