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Chromeless vs Playwright: What are the differences?

What is Chromeless? 🖥 Chrome automation made simple. Runs locally or headless on AWS Lambda. Chrome automation made simple. Runs locally or headless on AWS Lambda.

What is Playwright? Node library to automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API (By Microsoft). It is a Node library to automate the Chromium, WebKit and Firefox browsers with a single API. It enables cross-browser web automation that is ever-green, capable, reliable and fast.

Chromeless belongs to "Headless Browsers" category of the tech stack, while Playwright can be primarily classified under "Browser Testing".

Chromeless and Playwright are both open source tools. It seems that Chromeless with 13.3K GitHub stars and 603 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Playwright with 10.9K GitHub stars and 282 GitHub forks.

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Cross browser
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Open source
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Test Runner with Playwright/test
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Promise based
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Well documented
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Integrate your POMs as extensible fixtures
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Execute tests in parallel
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API Testing
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Python Support
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Capture videos, screenshots and other artifacts on fail
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Inbuild reporters html,line,dot,json
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Context isolation
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Less help
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Node based
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Does not execute outside of browser

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What is Chromeless?

Chrome automation made simple. Runs locally or headless on AWS Lambda.

What is Playwright?

It is a Node library to automate the Chromium, WebKit and Firefox browsers with a single API. It enables cross-browser web automation that is ever-green, capable, reliable and fast.

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What are some alternatives to Chromeless and Playwright?

PhantomJS

PhantomJS is a headless WebKit scriptable with JavaScript. It is used by hundreds of developers and dozens of organizations for web-related development workflow.

Selenium

Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is entirely up to you. Primarily, it is for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that. Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should!) also be automated as well.

Puppeteer

Puppeteer is a Node library which provides a high-level API to control headless Chrome over the DevTools Protocol. It can also be configured to use full (non-headless) Chrome.

jsdom

It is a pure-JavaScript implementation of many web standards, notably the WHATWG DOM and HTML Standards, for use with Node.js. In general, the goal of the project is to emulate enough of a subset of a web browser to be useful for testing and scraping real-world web applications.

CasperJS

CasperJS is a browser navigation scripting & testing utility written in Javascript for PhantomJS or SlimerJS.

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