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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

3,466 stars239 forksGoHealth Score 9/10Updated 7/17/2026100% 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

Saves to your device

Topics

automation

browser-automation

chromium

firefox

golang

hacktoberfest

headless

headless-chrome

playwright

selenium

webkit

How Playwright-go: Automate Browsers works

Codeflow

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Playwright-go: Automate Browsers is a medium Go project (~15k lines across 100 code files, plus 72 test files). Expect some technical setup — comfortable with a terminal, or ask a developer. Last commit this month, MIT license, has a test suite.

Size

Medium codebase

~15k lines · 100 code files · ~2 h to skim

Setup

Some technical setup

Comfortable with a terminal? 20–40 min. Otherwise ask a dev.

Runs on

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