Playwright Has a Free API You Should Know About

Playwright is more than an E2E testing tool — it has a powerful API for browser automation, web scraping, PDF generation, and building custom testing infrastructure. Browser Automation API Playwright's core API gives you full browser control: import { chromium } from " playwright " const browser = await chromium . launch ({ headless : true }) const context = await browser . newContext ({ viewport : { width : 1920 , height : 1080 }, userAgent : " Custom Agent " , locale : " en-US " , geolocation : { latitude : 40.7128 , longitude : - 74.0060 }, permissions : [ " geolocation " ] }) const page = await context . newPage () await page . goto ( " https://example.com " ) // Smart waiting — no sleep() needed await page . getByRole ( " button " , { name : " Submit " }). click () await page . waitForURL ( " **/success " ) await browser . close () Network Interception Intercept and modify network requests: // Mock API responses await page . route ( " **/api/users " , async ( route ) => { await ro