Playwright Core
Headless browser automation library for cross-browser testing and web scraping.
Scraping, browsers and parsing npm Apache-2.0
Used in agent projects
49
0.4% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in scraping, browsers and parsing
#8 of 16
by use in those projects
Downloads
122M
npm, last 7 days, playwright-core
GitHub stars
97.4K
last push Oct 10, 2026
How Playwright Core is used
Playwright Core is a dependency in 49 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.4%), #8 of 16 in scraping, browsers and parsing. The most used alternative there is Beautiful Soup. Projects that use it most often also use Vitest (57.1%), Playwright (JavaScript) (53.1%), Zod (46.9%).
Often used with Playwright Core
| Vitest | 57.1% of Playwright Core projects · 4.7× more than average |
|---|---|
| Playwright (JavaScript) | 53.1% of Playwright Core projects · 6.0× more than average |
| Zod | 46.9% of Playwright Core projects · 2.8× more than average |
| TypeScript | 77.6% of Playwright Core projects |
| jsdom | 22.4% of Playwright Core projects · 4.2× more than average |
| Sharp | 22.4% of Playwright Core projects · 7.3× more than average |
| Tailwind CSS | 55.1% of Playwright Core projects · 1.6× more than average |
| esbuild | 20.4% of Playwright Core projects · 7.6× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.9% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | 0.7% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
| OpenAI Codex | 1.1% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Playwright Core as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install playwright-core |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (35), Next.js (9), Python (3), React Native / Expo (1) |
| Example projects | Asymmetric-al/core, 5pyj29s7cm-tech/LumiCore, cin12211/orca-q, NihadMemmedli/quorvex_ai, tontoko/fast-playwright-mcp |
Alternatives to Playwright Core
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beautiful Soup pypi Python HTML/XML parsing and screen-scraping library for web data extraction. |
160 (1.3%) | 69M | — | MIT License |
| Puppeteer npm Headless Chrome/Chromium automation for scraping, testing and screenshot generation. |
115 (0.9%) | 11.4M | 95.7K | Apache-2.0 |
| lxml pypi High-performance XML and HTML processing library combining libxml2/libxslt with Python. |
98 (0.8%) | 88.4M | 3,065 | BSD-3-Clause |
| Cheerio npm jQuery-like syntax for parsing and manipulating HTML/XML with server-side speed. |
94 (0.7%) | 26.6M | 30.5K | MIT |
| Playwright (Python) pypi High-level Python API for automating browser testing and web scraping. |
68 (0.5%) | 26M | 15K | — |
| fast-xml-parser npm High-performance XML parser and builder without native dependencies. |
58 (0.5%) | 83.3M | 3,139 | MIT |
| csv-parse npm Parse CSV files using Node.js streaming Transform API for memory-efficient processing. |
51 (0.4%) | 20.6M | 4,280 | MIT |
| soupsieve pypi CSS selector implementation for BeautifulSoup to query HTML and XML documents. |
39 (0.3%) | 70.4M | 271 | — |