Playwright

Use it when

• browser automation click fill forms
• JS rendered SPA automation
• wait for selector multi-step flows
• agent driving chromium headless
• logged-in browser sessions for scrapes that need cookies
• client-rendered pages where static fetch misses app content

What it solves

Not the fit when

• bot-detection-challenge without stealth extras

Install

pip install playwright && playwright install chromium

Invoke

from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright
with sync_playwright() as p:
  browser = p.chromium.launch(headless=True)
  page = browser.new_page()
  page.goto(url, wait_until='networkidle')
  page.wait_for_selector('.result')
  html = page.content()

Alternatives

playwright-python, playwright-mcp, mcp-playwright, patchright, stagehand, browser-use, open-codex-computer-use, browserless