v1.18.1

Highlights

This patch includes bug fixes for the following issues:

microsoft/playwright#11447 - [BUG] window.orientation on WebKit is different to what Safari gives you

Browser Versions

• Chromium 99.0.4812.0
• Mozilla Firefox 95.0
• WebKit 15.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 97
• Microsoft Edge 97

v1.18.0

API Testing

Playwright for Python 1.18 introduces new API Testing that lets you send requests to the server directly from Python!
Now you can:

• test your server API
• prepare server side state before visiting the web application in a test
• validate server side post-conditions after running some actions in the browser

To do a request on behalf of Playwright's Page, use new page.request API:

# Do a GET request on behalf of page
res = page.request.get("http://example.com/foo.json")

Read more in our documentation.

Web-First Assertions

Playwright for Python 1.18 introduces Web-First Assertions.

Consider the following example:

from playwright.sync_api import Page, expect

def test_status_becomes_submitted(page: Page) -> None:
    # ..
    page.click("#submit-button")
    expect(page.locator(".status")).to_have_text("Submitted")

Playwright will be re-testing the node with the selector .status until
fetched Node has the "Submitted" text. It will be re-fetching the node and
checking it over and over, until the condition is met or until the timeout is
reached. You can pass this timeout as an option.

Read more in our documentation.

Locator Improvements

• locator.drag_to()

• Each locator can now be optionally filtered by the text it contains:

  page.locator("li", has_text="my item").locator("button").click()

  Read more in locator documentation

New APIs & changes

• accept_downloads option now defaults to True.
• sources option to embed sources into traces.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 99.0.4812.0
• Mozilla Firefox 95.0
• WebKit 15.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 97
• Microsoft Edge 97

v1.17.2

Highlights

This patch includes bug fixes for the following issues:

microsoft/playwright#10638 - [BUG] Locator.click -> subtree intercepts pointer events since version 1.17.0
microsoft/playwright#10632 - [BUG] Playwright 1.17.0 -> After clicking the element - I get an error that click action was failed
microsoft/playwright#10627 - [REGRESSION]: Can no longer click Material UI select box
microsoft/playwright#10620 - [BUG] trailing zero width whitespace fails toHaveText

Browser Versions

• Chromium 98.0.4695.0
• Mozilla Firefox 94.0.1
• WebKit 15.4

This version of Playwright was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 96
• Microsoft Edge 96

v1.17.1

Highlights

This patch includes bug fixes for the following issues:

microsoft/playwright#10127 - [BUG] Add Trace Viewer error handling (file not found, not parsable)
microsoft/playwright#10436 - [Bug]: Add hints on how to open trace from HTML report when opened locally
microsoft/playwright#10492 - [Bug]: Fix broken Firefox User-Agent on 'Desktop Firefox' devices

Browser Versions

• Chromium 98.0.4695.0
• Mozilla Firefox 94.0.1
• WebKit 15.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 96
• Microsoft Edge 96

v1.17.0

Playwright v1.17.0

Frame Locators

Playwright 1.17 introduces frame locators - a locator to the iframe on the page. Frame locators capture the logic sufficient to retrieve the iframe and then locate elements in that iframe. Frame locators are strict by default, will wait for iframe to appear and can be used in Web-First assertions.

Frame locators can be created with either page.frame_locator(selector) or locator.frame_locator(selector) method.

locator = page.frame_locator("my-frame").locator("text=Submit")
locator.click()

Read more at our documentation.

Trace Viewer Update

Playwright Trace Viewer is now available online at https://trace.playwright.dev! Just drag-and-drop your trace.zip file to inspect its contents.

NOTE: trace files are not uploaded anywhere; trace.playwright.dev is a progressive web application that processes traces locally.

• Playwright Test traces now include sources by default (these could be turned off with tracing option)
• Trace Viewer now shows test name
• New trace metadata tab with browser details
• Snapshots now have URL bar

Ubuntu ARM64 support + more

• Playwright now supports Ubuntu 20.04 ARM64. You can now run Playwright tests inside Docker on Apple M1 and on Raspberry Pi.

New APIs

• Tracing now supports a 'title' option
• Page navigations support a new 'commit' waiting option

Browser Versions

• Chromium 98.0.4695.0
• Mozilla Firefox 94.0.1
• WebKit 15.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 96
• Microsoft Edge 96

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v1.16.1

Highlights

This patch includes bug fixes for the following issues:

microsoft/playwright#9692 - [BUG] HTML report shows locator._withElement for locator.evaluate
microsoft/playwright#7818 - [Bug]: dedup snapshot CSS images

Browser Versions

• Chromium 97.0.4666.0
• Mozilla Firefox 93.0
• WebKit 15.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 94
• Microsoft Edge 94

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(1.16.2-1635322350000)

v1.16.0

🎭 Playwright Library

Locator.waitFor

Wait for a locator to resolve to a single element with a given state.
Defaults to the state: 'visible'.

order_sent = page.locator("#order-sent")
order_sent.wait_for()

Read more about locator.wait_for().

🎭 Playwright Trace Viewer

• run trace viewer with npx playwright show-trace and drop trace files to the trace viewer PWA
• better visual attribution of action targets

Read more about Trace Viewer.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 97.0.4666.0
• Mozilla Firefox 93.0
• WebKit 15.4

This version of Playwright was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 94
• Microsoft Edge 94

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(1.16.0-1634781227000)

v1.15.3

Highlights

This patch includes bug fixes for the following issues:

microsoft/playwright#9261 - [BUG] npm init playwright fails on path spaces
microsoft/playwright#9298 - [Question]: Should new Headers methods work in RouteAsync ?

Browser Versions

• Chromium 96.0.4641.0
• Mozilla Firefox 92.0
• WebKit 15.0

This version of Playwright was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 93
• Microsoft Edge 93

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(driver version: 1.15.2-1633455481000)

v1.15.2

Highlights

This patch includes bug fixes for the following issues:

microsoft/playwright#9065 - [BUG] browser(webkit): disable COOP support
microsoft/playwright#9092 - [BUG] browser(webkit): fix text padding

Browser Versions

• Chromium 96.0.4641.0
• Mozilla Firefox 92.0
• WebKit 15.0

This version of Playwright was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 93
• Microsoft Edge 93

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(driver version: 1.15.0-1633020276000)

v1.15.1

Highlights

This patch includes bug fixes for the following issues:

microsoft/playwright#8955 - [BUG] fix(inspector): stop on all snapshottable actions
microsoft/playwright#8999 - [BUG] fix: do not dedup header values
microsoft/playwright#9038 - [BUG] fix: restore support for slowmo connect option

Browser Versions

• Chromium 96.0.4641.0
• Mozilla Firefox 92.0
• WebKit 15.0

This version of Playwright was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 93
• Microsoft Edge 93