Web Scraping, Screenshotting and Automated Testing Playwright Tutorial

[@erichepperlewp]

As always, a great project based tutorial! By the end of it you will have autogenerated screenshots and scraped data very simple to understand!

[@alexandersamokhin]

I only used Puppeteer in the past, but I found it very similar to how Playwright works. I used it to scrape the data about power interruptions from our local power plant website and send email using Node since they don't provide any notification method. I then run the script using Windows task runner which runs a simple batch file on my local machine once a day :)

[@Line49Design]

You have great presentation style. 👍

[@LearnWebCode]

Thank you! 🙏

[@devine_noise]

Awesome tutorial, ty

[@ozgursar5386]

Thanks for the quick tips on Playwright! I guess this can run behind an express server so that users can send certain queries...

[@LearnWebCode]

You're welcome. Yes, that's what's so fun about these automation features, tying this together with Express or your own sessions / tokens, you could bring screenshot / scraping / testing features to end-users as well.

[@juguetestoys1137]

hi master! do you know how to deploy this in vercel or netlify ?

[@alexanderkomanov4151]

Hreat!
But why not to use a test function?

[@LearnWebCode]

Thanks! Do you mean like unit testing? Or do you mean why didn't I include the screenshot and scraping features within the test / assertion / report area?

[@alexanderkomanov4151]

@@LearnWebCode
No. Basically I meant why you didn’t use the test() fixture function instead of just a simple function?

[@JimKernix]

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