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Playwright-go: Automate Browsers

Name: Playwright-go: Automate Browsers
Author: playwright-community

Control Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API, for founders and developers, with 3.4k+ GitHub stars

3,407 stars236 forksGoQuality 9/10Updated 6/29/2026100% free · open source

What it does

Playwright-go is a browser automation library that allows you to control Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit with a single API, enabling automated browsing and testing across multiple browsers.

Install / run

go get github.com/playwright-community/playwright-go

When to use it

•When you need to automate web browsing for data scraping or monitoring
•When you want to write end-to-end tests for your web application across multiple browsers
•When you need to generate screenshots or PDFs of web pages programmatically

Quick start

1Import the playwright package in your Go file: `import ("github.com/playwright-community/playwright-go")`
2Launch a browser instance using `browser, err := playwright.Run()`
3Create a new browser context using `context, err := browser.NewContext()`
4Navigate to a webpage using `page, err := context.NewPage()` and `page.Goto("https://example.com")`
5Close the browser instance using `browser.Close()`

Ready-to-paste prompt

page, err := context.NewPage(); page.Goto("https://example.com"); page.Click("text=Login"); page.Fill("input[name="username"]", "your_username"); page.Fill("input[name="password"]", "your_password"); page.Click("text=Submit")

Heads up: Make sure you have the required browser binaries installed on your system, as playwright-go will not download them automatically; you can use the `playwright.BinaryDownloadURL` variable to specify the download URL

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