# playwright-chromium

> A high-level API to automate Chromium

Latest version **1.64.1** (published 2026-10-14) · Apache-2.0 license · 0 weekly downloads

## Install

```sh
npm install playwright-chromium
pnpm add playwright-chromium
yarn add playwright-chromium
bun add playwright-chromium
```

Provides the command `playwright`.

## Health

**Score 80/100 (A)** — status: active.

Positive: has types; esm support; no vulnerabilities; has provenance; recently updated; high maintenance score; popular repo; extremely popular.

Warnings: low downloads.

## Facts

| | |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.64.1 |
| Published | 2026-10-14 |
| First published | 2019-11-20 |
| Weekly downloads | 0 |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| TypeScript types | bundled |
| Module format | ESM + CommonJS |
| Node | >=20 |
| Dependencies | 1 |
| Unpacked size | 16.2 KB |
| Known vulnerabilities | 0 |
| Install scripts | yes |
| Provenance | attested (GitHub Actions) |
| GitHub stars | 97950 |
| Author | Microsoft Corporation |
| Maintainers | pavelfeldman, yurys, microsoft1es, dgozman-ms, microsoft-oss-releases |

## Links

- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/playwright-chromium
- Repository: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright
- Homepage: https://playwright.dev
- Issues: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues
- npm.io page: https://npm.io/package/playwright-chromium

## Dependencies (1)

- [playwright-core](https://npm.io/package/playwright-core.md) 1.64.1

## Recent versions

- 1.64.1 (latest) — 2026-10-14
- 1.65.0-alpha-2026-10-18 (next) — 2026-10-18
- 1.64.1-beta-1792067398000 (beta) — 2026-10-15
- 1.18.0-rc1 (rc) — 2022-01-14
- 1.65.0-alpha-2026-10-17 — 2026-10-17
- 1.65.0-alpha-2026-10-16 — 2026-10-16
- 1.65.0-alpha-2026-10-15 — 2026-10-15
- 1.65.0-alpha-1792021904000 — 2026-10-14
- 1.65.0-alpha-2026-10-14 — 2026-10-14
- 1.64.1-beta-1791926310000 — 2026-10-13
- 1.64.1-beta-1791924977000 — 2026-10-13
- 1.65.0-alpha-2026-10-13 — 2026-10-13
- 1.65.0-alpha-2026-10-12 — 2026-10-12
- 1.65.0-alpha-2026-10-11 — 2026-10-11
- 1.65.0-alpha-2026-10-10 — 2026-10-10
- … 5700 more at https://npm.io/package/playwright-chromium/versions

## README

# playwright-chromium

This package contains the [Chromium](https://www.chromium.org/) flavor of the [Playwright](http://github.com/microsoft/playwright) library. If you want to write end-to-end tests, we recommend [@playwright/test](https://playwright.dev/docs/intro).

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