TABLE OF CONTENTS

• What is Playwright?
• Our View on Playwright
  • Usage Rating of Playwright
  • Configuration
  • When to use Playwright
• Reference and documentation

What is Playwright?

Playwright is a testing tool for web application, useful also for web scraping, released on 2021.

Our View on Playwright

Usage Rating of Playwright

1. BEST CHOICE: This is among the preferred tools we use

It's the best choice when there's need of a fully rendered browser to scrape a website.

Configuration

The best configuration we've found up to date against antibot systems consists in: 

• playwright_stealth module
• a function to randomize mouse movement
• selection of a consistent combination of device to emulate and browser
• slow_mo option to reduce the rendering speed of the browser
• headless mode

 For a standard configuration using all these tools, please read this post on our forum.

When to use Playwright

Whenever is needed a fully rendered browser, like for:

• PerimeterX
• Forter 

Reference and documentation

Official website: https://playwright.dev/

Our tests: How to use Playwright against Cloudflare

Related articles: https://intoli.com/blog/making-chrome-headless-undetectable/