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HeliumHQ mentions (7)

• Playwright Test Generator

  Unreasonably shameless plug for my open source Python library Helium, so you don't need a test generator. [1] 1: https://github.com/mherrmann/helium. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• Autotab – Boring AI Agents for real world tasks

  I don't get why people still use XPaths, CSS selectors or HTML IDs to identify elements, even when they are "recorded". Please please please just use my https://github.com/mherrmann/selenium-python-helium instead. It makes so much more sense. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Web Automation: Don't Use Selenium, Use Playwright

  I am the author of Helium. It's a wrapper around Selenium. It's fully open source. It uses Selenium under the hood - Selenium 3 at that. But boy does it work beautifully. 1: https://github.com/mherrmann/selenium-python-helium. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Automating some process with PyAutoGui?

  You can, though it might not be the best tool for this. Automation of web entry is better done with selenium, or my favorite variation helium. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Beginner scraping question for beautiful soup after series of 'clicks' on webpage

  If this all fails you'll have to fall back on a web driver like selenium or one of its wrappers like helium. Source: about 2 years ago

Playwright mentions (231)

• Typed E2E test IDs

  We start with a project that was bootstrapped with npx create-next-app. For the E2E test we use Playwright and set it up as described in the testing guide provided by Next.js. - Source: dev.to / 3 days ago

• Playwright Scraping infinite loading & pagination

  Playwright is a powerful tool developed by Microsoft, it allows developers to write reliable end-to-end tests and perform browser automation tasks with ease. What sets Playwright apart is its ability to work seamlessly across multiple browsers (Chrome, Firefox, and WebKit), it provides a consistent and efficient way to interact with web pages, extract data, and automate repetitive tasks. Moreover, it supports... - Source: dev.to / 3 days ago

• Sometimes things simply don't work

  The consensus I could gather is either use playwright or use a workaround to solve it in the puppeteer layer. The root cause of the bug is a websocket size limitation on the CDP protocol for chromium. - Source: dev.to / 11 days ago

• The best testing strategies for frontends

  With the advent of tools like Puppeteer and now Playwright, end-to-end testing has become much easier and more reliable. For anyone who's used Selenium in the past, you know what I'm talking about. Puppeteer has opened the way in terms of E2E tooling, but Playwright has taken it to the next level and made it easier to await for certain selectors or conditions to be fulfilled (via locators), thus making tests... - Source: dev.to / 12 days ago

• Playwright Web Scraping 2024 - Tutorial

  In this tutorial, our main focus will be on Playwright web scraping. So what is Playwright? It’s a handy framework created by Microsoft. It's known for making web interactions more streamlined and works reliably with all the latest browsers like WebKit, Chromium, and Firefox. You can also run tests in headless or headed mode and emulate native mobile environments like Google Chrome for Android and Mobile Safari. - Source: dev.to / 16 days ago