🎭 Playwright for Crystal

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Playwright-cr is a Crystal library to automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API. Playwright is built to enable cross-browser web automation that is ever-green, capable, reliable and fast. See how Playwright is better.

	Linux	macOS	Windows
Chromium 89.0.4344.0	✅	✅	✅
WebKit 14.1	✅	✅	✅
Firefox 85.0b1	✅	✅	✅

Headless execution is supported for all the browsers on all platforms. Check out system requirements for details.

Playwright Dependencies

Playwright Crystal relies on two external components: The Playwright driver and the browsers.

Playwright Driver

Playwright drivers will be downloaded to the bin/driver folder, and browsers will be installed at shard installation time.

Installation

1. Add the dependency to your shard.yml:

   dependencies:
     playwright:
       github: naqvis/playwright-cr

2. Run shards install

Usage

Page Screenshot

This code snippet navigates to whatsmyuseragent.org in Chromium, Firefox and WebKit, and saves 3 screenshots.

require "playwright"

playwright = Playwright.create
browser_types = [playwright.chromium,
                 playwright.webkit,
                 playwright.firefox]

browser_types.each do |browser_type|
  browser = browser_type.launch
  context = browser.new_context(Playwright::Browser::NewContextOptions.new(
    viewport: Playwright::Page::ViewPort.new(800, 600)))
  page = context.new_page
  page.goto("http://whatsmyuseragent.org/")
  page.screenshot(Playwright::Page::ScreenshotOptions.new(path: Path["screenshot-#{browser_type.name}.png"]))
  browser.close
end
playwright.close

Mobile and geolocation

This snippet emulates Mobile Chromium on a device at a given geolocation, navigates to openstreetmap.org, performs action and takes a screenshot.

require "playwright"

playwright = Playwright.create
browser = playwright.chromium.launch(Playwright::BrowserType::LaunchOptions.new(headless: false))
pixel2 = playwright.devices["Pixel 2"]
context = browser.new_context(Playwright::Browser::NewContextOptions.new(
  viewport: Playwright::Page::ViewPort.new(pixel2.viewport.width, pixel2.viewport.height),
  user_agent: pixel2.user_agent,
  device_scale_factor: pixel2.device_scale_factor.to_i,
  is_mobile: pixel2.is_mobile,
  has_touch: pixel2.has_touch,
  locale: "en-US",
  geolocation: Playwright::Geolocation.new(41.889938, 12.492507),
  permissions: ["geolocation"]))
page = context.new_page
page.goto("https://www.openstreetmap.org/")
page.click("a[data-original-title=\"Show My Location\"]")
page.screenshot(Playwright::Page::ScreenshotOptions.new(path: Path["colosseum-pixel2.png"]))
browser.close
playwright.close

Evaluate in browser context

This code snippet navigates to example.com in Firefox, and executes a script in the page context.

require "playwright"

playwright = Playwright.create
browser = playwright.firefox.launch(Playwright::BrowserType::LaunchOptions.new(headless: false))
context = browser.new_context
page = context.new_page
page.goto("https://www.example.com/")
dimensions = page.evaluate(%(
  () => {
    return {
      width: document.documentElement.clientWidth,
      height: document.documentElement.clientHeight,
      deviceScaleFactor: window.devicePixelRatio
    }
  }
))
puts dimensions # => {"width" => 1280, "height" => 720, "deviceScaleFactor" => 1}
browser.close
playwright.close

Intercept network requests

This code snippet sets up request routing for a WebKit page to log all network requests.

require "playwright"

playwright = Playwright.create
browser = playwright.webkit.launch
context = browser.new_context
page = context.new_page
page.route("**", Playwright::Consumer(Playwright::Route).new { |route|
  puts route.request.url
  route.continue
})
page.goto("http://todomvc.com")
browser.close
playwright.close

Refer to spec for more samples and usages. This shard comes with 350+ test cases :)

Development

To run all tests:

crystal spec

By Default browser is chromium, but you can change the browser via setting environment variable of BROWSER=firefox or BROWSER=webkit for specs to run using different browser. By default tests are run in headless mode. But if you would like the tests to run in headful way, set the environment variable HEADFUL=true.

Contributing

1. Fork it (https://github.com/naqvis/playwright-cr/fork)
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

Contributors

• Ali Naqvi - creator and maintainer