playwright-cli

Use playwright-cli to open a browser, navigate to a URL, and interact with elements using refs from the page snapshot. Commands like click, fill, and type map directly to Playwright actions, and each command prints the equivalent TypeScript code.

Run the test with npx playwright test --debug=cli in the background, then attach with playwright-cli using the printed session name. The test pauses at the start, letting you snapshot the page, inspect console output, and rehearse corrected actions.

Yes, the route command intercepts URL patterns and returns custom status codes, bodies, or headers. For conditional logic or response modification, use run-code with page.route to inspect requests and fulfill them dynamically.

Yes, the -s flag creates named sessions with independent cookies, storage, cache, and tabs. You can list sessions, close them individually or all at once, and persist profiles to disk with the --persistent flag.

It launches Chrome, Firefox, WebKit, and Edge via the --browser flag on open. It can also attach to running Chrome or Edge instances by channel name or through a CDP endpoint URL.

cmd.exe and PowerShell treat the ampersand as a command separator, truncating URLs before playwright-cli runs. Escape ampersands with a caret in cmd.exe or use the --% stop-parsing token in PowerShell.