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28 changes: 14 additions & 14 deletions docs/src/cli.md
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```

```sh python
$ python -m playwright
$ playwright
```

```json js
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```

```sh python
$ python -m playwright codegen wikipedia.org
$ playwright codegen wikipedia.org
```

Run `codegen` and perform actions in the browser. Playwright CLI will generate JavaScript code for the user interactions. `codegen` will attempt to generate resilient text-based selectors.
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```

```sh python
$ python -m playwright --save-storage=auth.json codegen
$ playwright --save-storage=auth.json codegen
# Perform authentication and exit.
# auth.json will contain the storage state.
```
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```

```sh python
$ python -m playwright --load-storage=auth.json open my.web.app
$ python -m playwright --load-storage=auth.json codegen my.web.app
$ playwright --load-storage=auth.json open my.web.app
$ playwright --load-storage=auth.json codegen my.web.app
# Perform actions in authenticated state.
```

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```sh python
# Open page in Chromium
$ python -m playwright open example.com
$ playwright open example.com
```

```sh js
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```sh python
# Open page in WebKit
$ python -m playwright wk example.com
$ playwright wk example.com
```

### Emulate devices
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```sh python
# Emulate iPhone 11.
$ python -m playwright --device="iPhone 11" open wikipedia.org
$ playwright --device="iPhone 11" open wikipedia.org
```

### Emulate color scheme and viewport size
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```
```sh python
# Emulate screen size and color scheme.
$ python -m playwright --viewport-size=800,600 --color-scheme=dark open twitter.com
$ playwright --viewport-size=800,600 --color-scheme=dark open twitter.com
```

### Emulate geolocation, language and timezone
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```sh python
# Emulate timezone, language & location
# Once page opens, click the "my location" button to see geolocation in action
$ python -m playwright --timezone="Europe/Rome" --geolocation="41.890221,12.492348" --lang="it-IT" open maps.google.com
$ playwright --timezone="Europe/Rome" --geolocation="41.890221,12.492348" --lang="it-IT" open maps.google.com
```

## Inspect selectors
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```sh python
# See command help
$ python -m playwright screenshot --help
$ playwright screenshot --help
```

```sh js
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```sh python
# Wait 3 seconds before capturing a screenshot after page loads ('load' event fires)
$ python -m playwright \
$ playwright \
--device="iPhone 11" \
--color-scheme=dark \
screenshot \
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```sh python
# Capture a full page screenshot
$ python -m playwright screenshot --full-page en.wikipedia.org wiki-full.png
$ playwright screenshot --full-page en.wikipedia.org wiki-full.png
```

## Generate PDF
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```sh python
# See command help
$ python -m playwright pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF wiki.pdf
$ playwright pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF wiki.pdf
```

## Known limitations
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<!-- TOC -->

## Playwright Inspector

[Playwright Inspector](./inspector.md) is a GUI tool that helps authoring and debugging Playwright scripts. That's our default recommended tool for scripts troubleshooting.

<img width="712" alt="Playwright Inspector" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/883973/108614092-8c478a80-73ac-11eb-9597-67dfce110e00.png">


## Run in headful mode

Playwright runs browsers in headless mode by default. To change this behavior,
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### Use the new JavaScript debugging terminal

VS Code 1.46+ introduced the new JavaScript debugger that does not require a `launch.json`
configuration. To use it:

1. Set a breakpoint in VS Code
* Use the `debugger` keyword or set a breakpoint in the VS Code UI
1. Run your Node.js script from the terminal
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* **Run in headful**: With PWDEBUG, browsers always launch in headful mode
* **Disables timeout**: PWDEBUG sets timeout to 0 (= no timeout)
* **Preserve DevTools preferences**: When used with `devtools: true`, PWDEBUG
preserves the docked/undocked state of Chrome DevTools

### Debugging Selectors

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---
id: inspector
title: "Inspector"
---

Playwright Inspector is a GUI tool that helps authoring and debugging Playwright scripts.

<img width="712" alt="Playwright Inspector" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/883973/108614092-8c478a80-73ac-11eb-9597-67dfce110e00.png">

<!-- TOC -->

## Open Playwright Inspector

There are several ways of opening Playwright Inspector:

- Set the `PWDEBUG` environment variable to run your scripts in debug mode. This
configures Playwright for debugging and opens the inspector.
```sh js
# Linux/macOS
$ PWDEBUG=1 npm run test

# Windows
$ set PWDEBUG=1
$ npm run test
```

```sh python
# Linux/macOS
$ PWDEBUG=1 pytest -s

# Windows
$ set PWDEBUG=1
$ pytest -s
```

Additional useful defaults are configured when `PWDEBUG` is set:
- Browsers launch in the headed mode
- Default timeout is set to 0 (= no timeout)

- Call [`method: Page.pause`] method from your script when running in headed browser.

```js
// Pause on the following line.
await page.pause();
```

```python async
# Pause on the following line.
await page.pause()
```

```python sync
# Pause on the following line.
page.pause()
```

- Use `open` or `codegen` commands in the Playwright [CLI](./cli.md):
```sh js
$ npx playwright codegen wikipedia.org
```

```sh python
$ playwright codegen wikipedia.org
```

## Stepping through the Playwright script

When `PWDEBUG` is set, Playwright Inspector window will be opened and the script will be
paused on the first Playwright statement:

<img width="557" alt="Paused on line" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/883973/108614337-71761580-73ae-11eb-9f61-3d29c52c9520.png">

Now we know what action is about to be performed and we can look into the details on that
action. For example, when stopped on an input action such as `click`, the exact point Playwright is about to click is highlighted with the large red dot on the inspected page:

<img width="344" alt="Red dot on inspected page" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/883973/108614363-b69a4780-73ae-11eb-8f5e-51f9c91ec9b4.png">

By the time Playwright has paused on that click action, it has already performed actionability checks that can be found in the log:

<img width="712" alt="Action log" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/883973/108614564-72a84200-73b0-11eb-9de2-828b28d78b36.png">

If actionability can't be reached, it'll show action as pending:

<img width="712" alt="Screen Shot 2021-02-20 at 7 36 06 PM" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/883973/108614840-e6e3e500-73b2-11eb-998f-0cf31b2aa9a2.png">

You can step over each action using the "Step over" action or resume script without further pauses:

<center><img width="98" alt="Stepping toolbar" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/883973/108614389-f9f4b600-73ae-11eb-8df2-8d9ce9da5d5c.png"></center>


## Debugging Selectors

- Click the Explore button to hover over elements in the screen and click them to
automatically generate selectors for those elements.
- To verify where selector points, paste it into the inspector input field:

<img width="602" alt="Screen Shot 2021-02-20 at 7 27 20 PM" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/883973/108614696-ad5eaa00-73b1-11eb-81f5-9eebe62543a2.png">

## Recording scripts

At any moment, clicking Record action enables recorder (codegen) mode.
Every action on the target page is turned into the generated script:

<img width="712" alt="Screen Shot 2021-02-20 at 7 40 02 PM" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/883973/108614897-85704600-73b3-11eb-8bcd-f2e129786c49.png">

You can copy entire generated script or clear it using toolbar actions.
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```sh
$ pip install playwright
$ python -m playwright install
$ playwright install
```

These browsers will take few hundreds of megabytes of the disk space when installed:
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# Windows
$ set PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSERS_PATH=%USERPROFILE%\pw-browsers
$ pip install playwright
$ python -m playwright install
$ playwright install
```

When running Playwright scripts, ask it to search for browsers in a shared location:
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# Windows
$ set PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSERS_PATH=0
$ pip install playwright
$ python -m playwright install
$ playwright install
```

Playwright keeps track of packages that need those browsers and will garbage collect them as you update Playwright to the newer versions.
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# Windows
$ set PLAYWRIGHT_DOWNLOAD_HOST=192.168.1.78
$ pip install playwright
$ python -m playwright install
$ playwright install
```

It is also possible to use a per-browser download hosts using `PLAYWRIGHT_CHROMIUM_DOWNLOAD_HOST`, `PLAYWRIGHT_FIREFOX_DOWNLOAD_HOST` and `PLAYWRIGHT_WEBKIT_DOWNLOAD_HOST` env variables that
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# Windows
$ set PLAYWRIGHT_SKIP_BROWSER_DOWNLOAD=1
$ pip install playwright
$ python -m playwright install
$ playwright install
```

## Download single browser binary
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```sh
$ pip install playwright
$ python -m playwright install firefox
$ playwright install firefox
```
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```sh
$ pip install playwright
$ python -m playwright install
$ playwright install
```

These commands download the Playwright package and install browser binaries for Chromium, Firefox and WebKit. To modify this behavior see [installation parameters](./installation.md).
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Command Line Interface [CLI](./cli.md) can be used to record user interactions and generate Python code.

```sh
$ python -m playwright codegen wikipedia.org
$ playwright codegen wikipedia.org
```

## System requirements
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$ npx playwright --help
```
```sh python
$ python -m playwright --help
$ playwright --help
```
- [`method: Page.selectOption`] now waits for the options to be present.
- New methods to [assert element state](./actionability#assertions) like [`method: Page.isEditable`].
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```
```sh python
$ pip install playwright
$ python -m playwright install
$ playwright install
```

* **TypeScript support**. Playwright ships with built-in types for auto-completion and other benefits.
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};
line = lines[++i];
while (!line.trim().startsWith('```')) {
if (!line.startsWith(indent)) {
if (line && !line.startsWith(indent)) {
const from = Math.max(0, i - 5)
const to = Math.min(lines.length, from + 10);
const snippet = lines.slice(from, to);
throw new Error(`Bad code block: ${snippet.join('\n')}`);
}
node.lines.push(line.substring(indent.length));
if (line)
line = line.substring(indent.length);
node.lines.push(line);
line = lines[++i];
}
appendNode(indent, node);
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