microsoft/playwright

Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.

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Momentum

How fast microsoft/playwright is gaining stars, and where it lands on Trendshift and GitHub Trending

Activity and trending

Stars, forks and merged pull requests each day or month, lined up with the repository's rank on Trendshift Trending

Sep 16 – Nov 15, 2026

Stars +4,053 in 61 days

115

Forks +551 in 61 days

17

Merged PRs 605 in 61 days

25

Trendshift Trendingwhere the repository ranked each day it made the top 25

Not in the Trendshift top 25 in this period

Sep 16Sep 24Oct 2Oct 10Oct 18Oct 26Nov 3Nov 11

Stars, forks, merged pull requests and Trendshift Trending rank, by day
Day	Stars gained	Forks gained	Merged PRs
Wed, Sep 16, 2026	+47	+10	9
Thu, Sep 17, 2026	+54	+8	12
Fri, Sep 18, 2026	+50	+8	3
Sat, Sep 19, 2026	+32	+7	1
Sun, Sep 20, 2026	+50	+4	0
Mon, Sep 21, 2026	+58	+5	14
Tue, Sep 22, 2026	+49	+5	16
Wed, Sep 23, 2026	+52	+10	11
Thu, Sep 24, 2026	+66	+7	21
Fri, Sep 25, 2026	+38	+4	11
Sat, Sep 26, 2026	+33	+5	1
Sun, Sep 27, 2026	+51	+5	0
Mon, Sep 28, 2026	+63	+5	11
Tue, Sep 29, 2026	+59	+12	9
Wed, Sep 30, 2026	+42	+11	14
Thu, Oct 1, 2026	+54	+3	19
Fri, Oct 2, 2026	+36	+9	10
Sat, Oct 3, 2026	+43	+3	4
Sun, Oct 4, 2026	+34	+5	0
Mon, Oct 5, 2026	+44	+12	18
Tue, Oct 6, 2026	+50	+8	23
Wed, Oct 7, 2026	+51	+6	9
Thu, Oct 8, 2026	+78	+5	19
Fri, Oct 9, 2026	+59	+10	9
Sat, Oct 10, 2026	+70	+10	0
Sun, Oct 11, 2026	+52	+8	0
Mon, Oct 12, 2026	+66	+9	16
Tue, Oct 13, 2026	+87	+9	18
Wed, Oct 14, 2026	+78	+8	20
Thu, Oct 15, 2026	+68	+14	20
Fri, Oct 16, 2026	+83	+12	18
Sat, Oct 17, 2026	+60	+7	1
Sun, Oct 18, 2026	+77	+5	0
Mon, Oct 19, 2026	+85	+14	21
Tue, Oct 20, 2026	+74	+6	6
Wed, Oct 21, 2026	+60	+7	1
Thu, Oct 22, 2026	+83	+3	4
Fri, Oct 23, 2026	+62	+15	7
Sat, Oct 24, 2026	+56	+7	1
Sun, Oct 25, 2026	+65	+10	9
Mon, Oct 26, 2026	+84	+17	8
Tue, Oct 27, 2026	+85	+12	13
Wed, Oct 28, 2026	+83	+15	16
Thu, Oct 29, 2026	+72	+13	20
Fri, Oct 30, 2026	+79	+14	25
Sat, Oct 31, 2026	+78	+15	4
Sun, Nov 1, 2026	+78	+11	3
Mon, Nov 2, 2026	+74	+17	11
Tue, Nov 3, 2026	+80	+10	19
Wed, Nov 4, 2026	+92	+7	5
Thu, Nov 5, 2026	+91	+13	24
Fri, Nov 6, 2026	+73	+3	11
Sat, Nov 7, 2026	+69	+8	1
Sun, Nov 8, 2026	+66	+12	1
Mon, Nov 9, 2026	+83	+7	5
Tue, Nov 10, 2026	+109	+13	17
Wed, Nov 11, 2026	+98	+17	11
Thu, Nov 12, 2026	+115	+10	12
Fri, Nov 13, 2026	+100	+14	12
Sat, Nov 14, 2026	+76	+12	1
Sun, Nov 15, 2026	+49	+0	0
Total	+4,053	+551	605

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Nov 131 post
- 🤖 5 GitHub tools to build an AI website tester: 1. Playwright: 2. Browser Use: 3. Stagehand: 4. Axe Core: 5. Lighthouse:
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Nov 123 posts
- 🎭 GitHub | Playwright Test Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with one API. Use isolated contexts, auto-waiting and locators. Trace Viewer replays failures step by step. Learn: run a starter test, then…
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- You can turn almost any website into a starting point for your own app. Free, open source, and all on GitHub. Here's the stack: 1. Firecrawl Crawls the site and pulls its content into clean, AI ready…
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- 🚀 Turn almost any website into your own app with these 5 tools: 1. Firecrawl – 2. Playwright – 3. Screenshot-to-code – 4. OpenUI – 5. Supabase –
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Nov 101 post2 posts
- Flaky Selenium waits eating your CI again? Playwright drives Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit with one API — auto-wait, traces, parallel tests. 99.7k stars. #GitHub #OpenSource
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- 如果你失业没工作，推荐 10 个高变现开源项目！ 1⃣ Dify：企业知识库搭建变现方向：给企业定制内网 AI 问答系统，单项目报价 5000—20000 元。 GitHub： 2⃣ ComfyUI：电商 AI 出图工作流定制变现方向：搭建批量商品图生成流水线，按套收费，再收取后续维护费。 GitHub： 3⃣ Playwright：网页自动化脚本开发…
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Nov 62 posts
- a failure report without video can leave you guessing what happened one Playwright issue reports missing video when tests reuse a page, even with retain-on-failure enabled. check the actual report,…
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- 9 GITHUB REPOS THAT LET YOU SCRAPE ANY WEBSITE WITHOUT GETTING BLOCKED. Most scrapers get banned in the first 100 requests. These ones do not. Crawl4AI — AI-powered crawler built for LLM pipelines.…
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Nov 52 posts
- a Playwright bug report describes mocked requests reaching the real network during cleanup while another handler was still running the fix is merged, but check which release contains it before…
  Read full on X, posted by @DwayneSamuels
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- Point Claude Code at any animation on the web and it rebuilds it, frame by frame. The kit for reverse engineering motion: 1. reanimate: records the original, writes the code, then compares frames…
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