Re:Web Automation: Don't Use Selenium, Use Playwright
by symaxian on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @06:13PM
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Selenium can definitely run tests in multiple windows.
You can open multiple tabs within the same browser window, or you can create multiple WebDriver instances for multiple windows.
Re:Web Automation: Don't Use Selenium, Use Playwright
by cebert on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @06:18PM
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Fair point. Cypress cannot, the initiator of this comment thread context asked what Selenium can’t do that Playwright can, but my brain misted this as “Cypress”. Sorry about that.
Re:Web Automation: Don't Use Selenium, Use Playwright
by brightball on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @09:50PM
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Are there any good tutorials out there for using Playwright for scraping? Never tried it but I have a need right now.
Also Playwright is a general browser automation tool and can be used for more things than just testing. For example, scraping website data or generating preview thumbnails for URLs.