playwright-cli

Run playwright-cli open to launch a browser, then use snapshot to get element refs and commands like click, fill, and type to interact. Each action prints the equivalent Playwright TypeScript code you can reuse in tests.

Run the test with npx playwright test --debug=cli in the background, then attach using playwright-cli attach with the printed session name. Explore the paused page with snapshot, console, and requests commands to diagnose the failure.

playwright-cli supports Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit via the --browser flag, plus Chrome and Edge channels. It can also attach to running Chrome or Edge instances over CDP or through the Playwright browser extension.

Yes, the route command intercepts URL patterns to return custom status codes, bodies, or headers, and unroute removes them. For conditional logic or response modification, use run-code with page.route in Playwright code.

Use playwright-cli state-save to write cookies and localStorage to a JSON file after logging in, then state-load to restore it in later sessions. This skips repeated login flows across automation runs.

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