v1.49.0

Aria snapshots

New assertion expect(locator).toMatchAriaSnapshot() verifies page structure by comparing to an expected accessibility tree, represented as YAML.

page.goto("https://playwright.dev")
expect(page.locator('body')).to_match_aria_snapshot('''
  - banner:
    - heading /Playwright enables reliable/ [level=1]
    - link "Get started"
    - link "Star microsoft/playwright on GitHub"
  - main:
    - img "Browsers (Chromium, Firefox, WebKit)"
    - heading "Any browser • Any platform • One API"
''')

You can generate this assertion with Test Generator or by calling locator.ariaSnapshot().

Learn more in the aria snapshots guide.

Tracing groups

New method tracing.group() allows you to visually group actions in the trace viewer.

# All actions between group and group_end
# will be shown in the trace viewer as a group.
page.context.tracing.group("Open Playwright.dev > API")
page.goto("https://playwright.dev/")
page.get_by_role("link", name="API").click()
page.context.tracing.group_end()

Breaking: chrome and msedge channels switch to new headless mode

This change affects you if you're using one of the following channels in your playwright.config.ts:

• chrome, chrome-dev, chrome-beta, or chrome-canary
• msedge, msedge-dev, msedge-beta, or msedge-canary

After updating to Playwright v1.49, run your test suite. If it still passes, you're good to go. If not, you will probably need to update your snapshots, and adapt some of your test code around PDF viewers and extensions. See issue #33566 for more details.

Try new Chromium headless

You can opt into the new headless mode by using 'chromium' channel. As official Chrome documentation puts it:

New Headless on the other hand is the real Chrome browser, and is thus more authentic, reliable, and offers more features. This makes it more suitable for high-accuracy end-to-end web app testing or browser extension testing.

See issue #33566 for the list of possible breakages you could encounter and more details on Chromium headless. Please file an issue if you see any problems after opting in.

pytest test_login.py --browser-channel chromium

Miscellaneous

• There will be no more updates for WebKit on Ubuntu 20.04 and Debian 11. We recommend updating your OS to a later version.
• <canvas> elements inside a snapshot now draw a preview.
• Python 3.8 is not supported anymore.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 131.0.6778.33
• Mozilla Firefox 132.0
• WebKit 18.2

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 130
• Microsoft Edge 130

v1.48.0

WebSocket routing

New methods page.route_web_socket() and browser_context.route_web_socket() allow to intercept, modify and mock WebSocket connections initiated in the page. Below is a simple example that mocks WebSocket communication by responding to a "request" with a "response".

def message_handler(ws: WebSocketRoute, message: Union[str, bytes]):
  if message == "request":
    ws.send("response")

page.route_web_socket("/ws", lambda ws: ws.on_message(
    lambda message: message_handler(ws, message)
))

See WebSocketRoute for more details.

UI updates

• New "copy" buttons for annotations and test location in the HTML report.
• Route method calls like route.fulfill() are not shown in the report and trace viewer anymore. You can see which network requests were routed in the network tab instead.
• New "Copy as cURL" and "Copy as fetch" buttons for requests in the network tab.

Miscellaneous

• New method page.request_gc() may help detect memory leaks.
• Requests made by APIRequestContext now record detailed timing and security information in the HAR.
• This version adds support for Python 3.13
• This version is the last version supporting Python 3.8

Browser Versions

• Chromium 130.0.6723.19
• Mozilla Firefox 130.0
• WebKit 18.0

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 129
• Microsoft Edge 129

v1.47.0

Network Tab improvements

The Network tab in the trace viewer has several nice improvements:

• filtering by asset type and URL
• better display of query string parameters
• preview of font assets

Miscellaneous

• The mcr.microsoft.com/playwright-python:v1.47.0 now serves a Playwright image based on Ubuntu 24.04 Noble.
  To use the 22.04 jammy-based image, please use mcr.microsoft.com/playwright-python:v1.47.0-jammy instead.
• The :latest/:focal/:jammy tag for Playwright Docker images is no longer being published. Pin to a specific version for better stability and reproducibility.
• TLS client certificates can now be passed from memory by passing cert and key as bytes instead of file paths.
• no_wait_after in locator.selectOption() was deprecated.
• We've seen reports of WebGL in Webkit misbehaving on GitHub Actions macos-13. We recommend upgrading GitHub Actions to macos-14.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 129.0.6668.29
• Mozilla Firefox 130.0
• WebKit 18.0

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 128
• Microsoft Edge 128

v1.46.0

TLS Client Certificates

Playwright now allows to supply client-side certificates, so that server can verify them, as specified by TLS Client Authentication.

You can provide client certificates as a parameter of browser.new_context() and api_request.new_context(). The following snippet sets up a client certificate for https://example.com:

context = browser.new_context(
    client_certificates=[
        {
            "origin": "https://example.com",
            "certPath": "client-certificates/cert.pem",
            "keyPath": "client-certificates/key.pem",
        }
    ],
)

When using the Pytest plugin, it can be added like this:

@pytest.fixture(scope="session")
def browser_context_args(browser_context_args):
    return {
        **browser_context_args,
        "client_certificates": [
            {
                "origin": "https://example.com",
                "certPath": "client-certificates/cert.pem",
                "keyPath": "client-certificates/key.pem",
            }
        ],
    }

Trace Viewer Updates

• Content of text attachments is now rendered inline in the attachments pane.
• New setting to show/hide routing actions like route.continue_().
• Request method and status are shown in the network details tab.
• New button to copy source file location to clipboard.
• Metadata pane now displays the base_url.

Miscellaneous

• New max_retries option in apiRequestContext.fetch() which retries on the ECONNRESET network error.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 128.0.6613.18
• Mozilla Firefox 128.0
• WebKit 18.0

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 127
• Microsoft Edge 127

v1.45.1

Highlights

microsoft/playwright-java#1617 - [Bug]: Trace Viewer not reporting all actions
microsoft/playwright#31764 - [Bug]: some actions do not appear in the trace file

Browser Versions

• Chromium 127.0.6533.5
• Mozilla Firefox 127.0
• WebKit 17.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 126
• Microsoft Edge 126

v1.45.0

Clock

Utilizing the new Clock API allows to manipulate and control time within tests to verify time-related behavior. This API covers many common scenarios, including:

• testing with predefined time;
• keeping consistent time and timers;
• monitoring inactivity;
• ticking through time manually.

# Initialize clock with some time before the test time and let the page load
# naturally. `Date.now` will progress as the timers fire.
page.clock.install(time=datetime.datetime(2024, 2, 2, 8, 0, 0))
page.goto("http://localhost:3333")

# Pretend that the user closed the laptop lid and opened it again at 10am.
# Pause the time once reached that point.
page.clock.pause_at(datetime.datetime(2024, 2, 2, 10, 0, 0))

# Assert the page state.
expect(page.get_by_test_id("current-time")).to_have_text("2/2/2024, 10:00:00 AM")

# Close the laptop lid again and open it at 10:30am.
page.clock.fast_forward("30:00")
expect(page.get_by_test_id("current-time")).to_have_text("2/2/2024, 10:30:00 AM")

See the clock guide for more details.

Miscellaneous

• Method locator.setInputFiles() now supports uploading a directory for <input type=file webkitdirectory> elements.

  page.get_by_label("Upload directory").set_input_files('mydir')

• Multiple methods like locator.click() or locator.press() now support a ControlOrMeta modifier key. This key maps to Meta on macOS and maps to Control on Windows and Linux.

  # Press the common keyboard shortcut Control+S or Meta+S to trigger a "Save" operation.
  page.keyboard.press("ControlOrMeta+S")

• New property httpCredentials.send in apiRequest.newContext() that allows to either always send the Authorization header or only send it in response to 401 Unauthorized.
• Playwright now supports Chromium, Firefox and WebKit on Ubuntu 24.04.
• v1.45 is the last release to receive WebKit update for macOS 12 Monterey. Please update macOS to keep using the latest WebKit.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 127.0.6533.5
• Mozilla Firefox 127.0
• WebKit 17.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 126
• Microsoft Edge 126

v1.44.0

New APIs

Accessibility assertions

• expect(locator).to_have_accessible_name() checks if the element has the specified accessible name:

  locator = page.get_by_role("button")
  expect(locator).to_have_accessible_name("Submit")

• expect(locator).to_have_accessible_description() checks if the element has the specified accessible description:

  locator = page.get_by_role("button")
  expect(locator).to_have_accessible_description("Upload a photo")

• expect(locator).to_have_role() checks if the element has the specified ARIA role:

  locator = page.get_by_test_id("save-button")
  expect(locator).to_have_role("button")

Locator handler

• After executing the handler added with page.add_locator_handler(), Playwright will now wait until the overlay that triggered the handler is not visible anymore. You can opt-out of this behavior with the new no_wait_after option.
• You can use new times option in page.add_locator_handler() to specify maximum number of times the handler should be run.
• The handler in page.add_locator_handler() now accepts the locator as argument.
• New page.remove_locator_handler() method for removing previously added locator handlers.

locator = page.get_by_text("This interstitial covers the button")
page.add_locator_handler(locator, lambda overlay: overlay.locator("#close").click(), times=3, no_wait_after=True)
# Run your tests that can be interrupted by the overlay.
# ...
page.remove_locator_handler(locator)

Miscellaneous options

• expect(page).to_have_url() now supports ignore_case option.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 125.0.6422.14
• Mozilla Firefox 125.0.1
• WebKit 17.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 124
• Microsoft Edge 124

v1.43.0

New APIs

• Method BrowserContext.clear_cookies([options]) now supports filters to remove only some cookies.

  # Clear all cookies.
  context.clear_cookies()
  # New: clear cookies with a particular name.
  context.clear_cookies(name="session-id")
  # New: clear cookies for a particular domain.
  context.clear_cookies(domain="my-origin.com")

• New method locator.content_frame converts a {@link Locator} object to a FrameLocator. This can be useful when you have a Locator object obtained somewhere, and later on would like to interact with the content inside the frame.

  locator = page.locator("iframe[name='embedded']")
  # ...
  frame_locator = locator.content_frame
  frame_locator.getByRole("button").click()

• New method frameLocator.owner converts a FrameLocator object to a Locator. This can be useful when you have a FrameLocator object obtained somewhere, and later on would like to interact with the iframe element.

  frame_locator = page.frame_locator("iframe[name='embedded']")
  # ...
  locator = frame_locator.owner
  expect(locator).to_be_visible()

• Conda builds are now published for macOS-arm64 and Linux-arm64.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 124.0.6367.8
• Mozilla Firefox 124.0
• WebKit 17.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 123
• Microsoft Edge 123

v1.42.0

New Locator Handler

New method page.add_locator_handler(locator, handler) registers a callback that will be invoked when specified element becomes visible and may block Playwright actions. The callback can get rid of the overlay. Here is an example that closes a cookie dialog when it appears.

# Setup the handler.
page.add_locator_handler(
    page.get_by_role("heading", name="Hej! You are in control of your cookies."),
    lambda: page.get_by_role("button", name="Accept all").click(),
)
# Write the test as usual.
page.goto("https://www.ikea.com/")
page.get_by_role("link", name="Collection of blue and white").click()
expect(page.get_by_role("heading", name="Light and easy")).to_be_visible()

New APIs

• page.pdf([options]) accepts two new options tagged and outline.

Announcements

• ⚠️ Ubuntu 18 is not supported anymore.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 123.0.6312.4
• Mozilla Firefox 123.0
• WebKit 17.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 122
• Microsoft Edge 123

v1.41.2

Highlights

#2258 - [REGRESSION] Failing step is not highlighted in red in actions panel for versions after 1.39.0
microsoft/playwright#29123 - [REGRESSION] route.continue: Protocol error (Fetch.continueRequest): Invalid InterceptionId.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 121.0.6167.57
• Mozilla Firefox 121.0
• WebKit 17.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 120
• Microsoft Edge 120