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python browser-automation

go browser-automation

Apache-2.0 82 5 14,506

53.2 million (month) Feb 24 2021 1.58.0(2026-01-30 15:09:24 ago)

12,937 6 172 MIT

May 10 2021 58.1 thousand (month) chromedp(2026-04-01 00:05:30 ago)

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playwright is a Python package that allows developers to automate web browsers for end-to-end testing, web scraping, and web performance analysis. It is built on top of WebKit, Mozilla's Gecko, and Microsoft's EdgeHTML, and it is designed to be fast, reliable, and easy to use.

playwright is similar to Selenium, but it provides a more modern and powerful API, with features such as automatic waiting for elements, automatic retries, and built-in support for browser contexts, which allow you to open multiple pages in a single browser instance.

Playwright also provides an asynchronous client which makes scaling playwright-powered web scrapers easier than alternatives (like Selenium)

ChromeDP is an open-source library for driving browsers using the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP) in the Go programming language. It is a high-level library that abstracts away the low-level details of interacting with the CDP and provides a simple, intuitive API for performing common browser automation tasks such as clicking elements, filling out forms, and taking screenshots.

ChromeDP also supports parallel execution of browser tasks, making it well-suited for large-scale web scraping and testing applications. It is considered as one of the most popular Go package for automation and scraping tasks.

Example Use

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```python from playwright import sync_playwright # Start Playwright with sync_playwright() as playwright: # Launch a browser instance browser = playwright.chromium.launch() # Open a new context (tab) context = browser.new_context() # Create a new page in the context page = context.new_page() # Navigate to a website page.goto("https://www.example.com") # Find an element by its id element = page.get_by_id("example-id") # Interact with the element element.click() # Fill an input form page.get_by_name("example-name").fill("example text") # Find and click a button page.get_by_xpath("//button[text()='Search']").click() # Wait for the page to load page.wait_for_selector("#results") # Get the page title print(page.title) # Close the browser browser.close() ```

```go package main import ( "context" "fmt" "github.com/chromedp/chromedp" ) func main() { var title, firstParagraph string // create context ctx, cancel := chromedp.NewContext(context.Background()) defer cancel() // run task list (a scraping scenario) err := chromedp.Run(ctx, // go to page chromedp.Navigate("https://www.example.com"), // wait for element to load chromedp.WaitVisible("body"), // extract text from an element (css selector) chromedp.Text("title", &title), // extract first paragraph element chromedp.First(chromedp.ByTagName("p"), &firstParagraph), ) if err != nil { fmt.Println("error:", err) return } fmt.Printf("Title: %s\n", title) fmt.Printf("First paragraph: %s\n", firstParagraph) } ```

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