Tutorial 1 – Playwright Python setup in PyCharm IDE
What you will Learn:
Install Python
Install PyCharm IDE
Install playwright package
Download binaries for browsers (chromium, firefox, webkit)
Launch playwright inspector
Execute first playwright test
Execute script in slow-motion (for debug purposes)
Install Python
To install python in windows os, refer https://www.way2automation.com/setup-python-and-pip-package-manager-for-python-on-windows/
Install PyCharm IDE
To install PyCharm IDE, refer https://www.way2automation.com/pycharm-ide-setup-step-by-step/
Install playwright package
Launch pycharm ide and create a new project
Next, File > Settings
Expand project and select ‘Python Interpreter’
Click + seen in above picture.
Search for ‘playwright’ package and install the package
The below message should come up once the package gets installed
Close the ‘Available packages’ window.
Notice that playwright is now seen under package
Click ok to close the ‘Settings’ window.
Download binaries for browsers (chromium, firefox, webkit)
Click ‘Terminal’
By default, the ‘Local’ terminal points to playwright project folder
Execute playwright install command to install the browser binaries
Launch playwright inspector
To launch the inspector, the command syntax is: playwright codegen <url>
So let us execute below command:
playwright codegen https://sso.teachable.com/secure/673/identity/login
Notice that the browser is launched with the respective url
The inspector too gets launched
The python code gets auto-generated in the inspector window as seen above. The code is self-explanatory (the browser instance is getting created at line#5, context instance at line#6, page instance at line#7 and so on..).
Click the email text field and type some text
Notice that the python code gets auto-generated in the inspector for the respective actions that we performed above
Do NOT close the inspector window, we will come back to it.
Create new package
Inside the package, create new python file with .py extension
Copy the inspector code
Paste the code in .py file
Save the file
Close the inspector and the browser.
Execute first playwright test
The command syntax to execute our first playwright script:
python .\<package name>\<filename.py>
So let us execute
Notice that the auto-generated inspector code gets executed successfully and the text gets entered in the email field
Execute script in slow-motion (for debug purposes)
To create a delay between each step, we can use slow motion argument having syntax:
slow_mo=<time in milli seconds>
Execute
You will be able to see some delay between execution of each step.
So this is how we setup playwright using python.
Thank you for reading!
