Playwright (Python)
High-level Python API for automating browser testing and web scraping.
Used in agent projects
68
0.5% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in scraping, browsers and parsing
#5 of 16
by use in those projects
Downloads
26M
PyPI, last 7 days, playwright
GitHub stars
15K
last push Oct 9, 2026
How Playwright (Python) is used
Playwright (Python) is a dependency in 68 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.5%), #5 of 16 in scraping, browsers and parsing. The most used alternative there is Beautiful Soup. Projects that use it most often also use python-dotenv (58.8%), Pydantic (50.0%), Requests (47.1%).
Often used with Playwright (Python)
| python-dotenv | 58.8% of Playwright (Python) projects · 9.0× more than average |
|---|---|
| Pydantic | 50.0% of Playwright (Python) projects · 9.8× more than average |
| Requests | 47.1% of Playwright (Python) projects · 8.9× more than average |
| Uvicorn | 44.1% of Playwright (Python) projects · 10.3× more than average |
| Pillow | 42.6% of Playwright (Python) projects · 18.5× more than average |
| FastAPI | 39.7% of Playwright (Python) projects · 9.4× more than average |
| pytest | 36.8% of Playwright (Python) projects · 14.1× more than average |
| Beautiful Soup | 35.3% of Playwright (Python) projects · 28.0× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.9% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | 0.8% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 0.9% of projects set up for it |
| OpenCode | 1.6% of projects set up for it |
| Gemini CLI | 1.1% of projects set up for it |
| Devin Desktop | 1.8% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Playwright (Python) as a dependency.
Install
| Package | pip install playwright |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (65), Next.js (2), .NET (1) |
| Example projects | Josh-XT/AGiXT, simons-freedom/X-monitor, sweetcornna/free-search-mcp, MDalamin5/End-to-End-Agentic-Ai-Automation-Lab, dcwangmit01/amazon-invoice-downloader |
Alternatives to Playwright (Python)
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Playwright Core npm Headless browser automation library for cross-browser testing and web scraping. |
49 (0.4%) | 122M | 97.4K | Apache-2.0 |
| soupsieve pypi CSS selector implementation for BeautifulSoup to query HTML and XML documents. |
39 (0.3%) | 70.4M | 271 | — |