playwright-utils v0.12.0

playwright-utils

🛠️ Utilities for playwright.

const { forEachPage, initEvaluateScript, launch } = require('playwright-utils');

(async () => {
  // launch the browser based on environment variables
  const browser = await launch();

  const context = await browser.newContext();

  // Run for every existing and new page
  await forEachPage(context, async (page) => {
    await initEvaluateScript(page, MY_SCRIPT);
  });

  await browser.close();
})();

playwright-utils.forEachPage(context, pageFunction)

• context <BrowserContext> The browser context.
• pageFunction <function> Callback function called for every existing and new page.
• returns: <Promise>

Run a function for every existing and new page.

await forEachPage(context, (page: Page) => {
  // code to run for each page here
});

playwright-utils.initEvaluateScript(script, ...args)

• script <function|string> Script to be evaluated in the page.
• ...args <...Serializable> Arguments to pass to script (only supported when passing a function).
• returns: <Promise>

Call page.addInitScript and page.evaluate to run the script now and every time the page is navigated.

playwright-utils.interceptConsoleLogs(page, callback)

• page <Page> Intercept console logs on this page.
• callback <Function> Function to be called when console logs in the browser. Takes as arguments the log level and the message.

Call a specified function when console logs in the browser.

const callback = (logLevel, message) => {
  // logLevel is one of 'debug', 'error', 'info', 'log', and 'warn'
  console.log(`Console logged ${message} at log level ${logLevel}`);
};

await interceptConsoleLogs(page, callback);

playwright-utils.launch(options)

• options <Object> Playwright browserType.launch options and these additional fields:
  • browserName <string> The browser to launch: "chromium", "firefox" or "webkit".
• returns: <Promise<Browser>> Promise which resolves to browser instance.

Launch the browser based on environment variables. Defaults to QAW_BROWSER=chromium and QAW_HEADLESS=true.

playwright-utils.openScreenshot(page)

• page <Page> Take a screenshot of this page and open it.
• returns: <Promise<ChildProcess>> Promise that resolves the viewer process.

Open a screenshot in the default viewer of the OS.

await openScreenshot(page);

playwright-utils.repl(context)

• context <Object> Each key of this object is set on the repl.context so it can be accessed.
• returns: <Promise<void>> Promise that resolves after the REPL is closed.

Open a Node REPL.

// pass a page so it can be accessed in the REPL
await repl({ page });

In the repl, type screenshot [page] to open a screenshot.

# open a screenshot of page 0
.screenshot
# open a screenshot of page 1
.screenshot 1

playwright-utils.saveArtifacts(context, saveDir)

• context <BrowserContext> The browser context.
• saveDir <string> The directory where artifacts (video and console logs) will be saved.

Save a video and console logs for each page of the context. Videos are saved at ${saveDir}/video_${pageIndex}_${timestamp}.mp4, and console logs are saved at ${saveDir}/logs_${pageIndex}_${timestamp}.txt. pageIndex corresponds to the index of the page starting at 0.

If FFmpeg is not installed, videos will not be included. Install ffmpeg-static as a dependency or set the FFMPEG_PATH environment variable.

npm i ffmpeg-static

await saveArtifacts(context, '/artifacts');

playwright-utils.saveConsoleLogs(page, savePath)

• page <Page> Save console logs on this page.
• savePath <string> Path where console logs will be saved.

Save console logs on a page to the specified file.

await saveConsoleLogs(page, 'logs.txt');

playwright-utils.saveState(page, savePath)

• page <Page> Save the state (cookies, localStorage, sessionStorage) of this page.
• savePath <string> Path where state will be saved as JSON.

Save the state of a page (cookies, localStorage, sessionStorage) to the specified file as JSON.

await saveState(page, 'admin.json');

playwright-utils.scroll(page, selector, options)

• page <Page> Find the element to scroll on this page.
• selector <string> Selector of the element to scroll.
• options <Object>
  • x <number> horizontal position to scroll element to in pixels.
  • y <number> vertical position to scroll element to in pixels.
  • timeout <?number> maximum time to wait for element to reach scroll position in milliseconds. Defaults to 30000 (30 seconds).

Scrolls an element to the specified x and y position. It will keep trying to scroll the element to the specified position until timeout milliseconds have passed.

If the element cannot be scrolled at all before timeout, an error is thrown.

await scroll(page, '#container', { x: 0, y: 500 });

playwright-utils.setState(page, savePath)

• page <Page> Apply the saved state (cookies, localStorage, sessionStorage) to this page.
• savePath <string> Path where state JSON is saved.

Sets the state of a page (cookies, localStorage, sessionStorage) to the JSON saved in the specified path.

await setState(page, 'admin.json');

playwright-utils.stopVideos()

• returns: <Promise> Resolves after videos are saved.

Stop and wait for all videos started by saveArtifacts to save.