# 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.

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# 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

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