# playwright-core

> A high-level API to automate web browsers

Latest version **1.63.0** (published 2026-09-04) · Apache-2.0 license · 0 weekly downloads

## Install

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

Provides the command `playwright-core`.

## 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; large bundle.

## Facts

| | |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.63.0 |
| Published | 2026-09-04 |
| First published | 2020-01-17 |
| Weekly downloads | 0 |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| TypeScript types | bundled |
| Module format | ESM + CommonJS |
| Node | >=20 |
| Dependencies | 0 |
| Unpacked size | 12.8 MB |
| Known vulnerabilities | 0 |
| Install scripts | no |
| Provenance | attested (GitHub Actions) |
| GitHub stars | 95415 |
| Author | Microsoft Corporation |
| Maintainers | pavelfeldman, yurys, microsoft1es, dgozman-ms, microsoft-oss-releases |

## Links

- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/playwright-core
- 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-core

## Recent versions

- 1.63.0 (latest) — 2026-09-04
- 1.64.0-alpha-2026-09-08 (next) — 2026-09-08
- 1.63.0-beta-1788559919000 (beta) — 2026-09-04
- 1.18.0-rc1 (rc) — 2022-01-14
- 1.64.0-alpha-2026-09-07 — 2026-09-07
- 1.64.0-alpha-2026-09-06 — 2026-09-06
- 1.64.0-alpha-2026-09-05 — 2026-09-05
- 1.63.0-beta-1788559629000 — 2026-09-04
- 1.63.0-beta-1788557115000 — 2026-09-04
- 1.63.0-beta-1788551604000 — 2026-09-04
- 1.64.0-alpha-2026-09-04 — 2026-09-04
- 1.63.0-beta-1788462384000 — 2026-09-04
- 1.63.0-beta-1788477194000 — 2026-09-03
- 1.63.0-alpha-1788460676000 — 2026-09-03
- 1.63.0-alpha-2026-09-03 — 2026-09-03
- … 5648 more at https://npm.io/package/playwright-core/versions

## README

# playwright-core

This package contains the no-browser flavor of [Playwright](http://github.com/microsoft/playwright).

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