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 print 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 so you can step through, inspect snapshots, and rehearse fixes.

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 implement advanced mocking.

Yes, the -s flag creates named sessions with isolated cookies, storage, cache, and tabs. You can run concurrent sessions for scraping or A/B testing and clean up with close-all or kill-all.

It supports Chromium, Chrome, Firefox, WebKit, and Microsoft Edge via the --browser flag on open. You can also attach to running Chrome or Edge instances over CDP or through the Playwright browser extension.

On Windows, cmd.exe and PowerShell treat the ampersand as a command separator, truncating URLs with multiple query parameters. Escape ampersands with a caret in cmd.exe or use the --% stop-parsing token in PowerShell.