Interface BrowserType<Unused>

wsEndpoint: string

Optional options: ConnectOptions

options: ConnectOptions & {
    wsEndpoint?: string;
}

endpointURL: string

Optional options: ConnectOverCDPOptions

options: ConnectOverCDPOptions & {
    wsEndpoint?: string;
}

Optional options: LaunchOptions

userDataDir: string

Optional options: {
    acceptDownloads?: boolean;
    args?: string[];
    baseURL?: string;
    bypassCSP?: boolean;
    channel?: string;
    chromiumSandbox?: boolean;
    colorScheme?: "light" | "dark" | "no-preference";
    deviceScaleFactor?: number;
    devtools?: boolean;
    downloadsPath?: string;
    env?: {
        [key: string]: string | number | boolean;
    };
    executablePath?: string;
    extraHTTPHeaders?: {
        [key: string]: string;
    };
    firefoxUserPrefs?: {
        [key: string]: string | number | boolean;
    };
    forcedColors?: "none" | "active";
    geolocation?: {
        accuracy?: number;
        latitude: number;
        longitude: number;
    };
    handleSIGHUP?: boolean;
    handleSIGINT?: boolean;
    handleSIGTERM?: boolean;
    hasTouch?: boolean;
    headless?: boolean;
    httpCredentials?: {
        origin?: string;
        password: string;
        username: string;
    };
    ignoreDefaultArgs?: boolean | string[];
    ignoreHTTPSErrors?: boolean;
    isMobile?: boolean;
    javaScriptEnabled?: boolean;
    locale?: string;
    logger?: Logger;
    offline?: boolean;
    permissions?: string[];
    proxy?: {
        bypass?: string;
        password?: string;
        server: string;
        username?: string;
    };
    recordHar?: {
        content?: "omit" | "embed" | "attach";
        mode?: "full" | "minimal";
        omitContent?: boolean;
        path: string;
        urlFilter?: string | RegExp;
    };
    recordVideo?: {
        dir: string;
        size?: {
            height: number;
            width: number;
        };
    };
    reducedMotion?: "reduce" | "no-preference";
    screen?: {
        height: number;
        width: number;
    };
    serviceWorkers?: "allow" | "block";
    slowMo?: number;
    strictSelectors?: boolean;
    timeout?: number;
    timezoneId?: string;
    tracesDir?: string;
    userAgent?: string;
    videoSize?: {
        height: number;
        width: number;
    };
    videosPath?: string;
    viewport?: {
        height: number;
        width: number;
    };
}

• Optional acceptDownloads?: boolean

  Whether to automatically download all the attachments. Defaults to true where all the downloads are accepted.

• Optional args?: string[]

  NOTE Use custom browser args at your own risk, as some of them may break Playwright functionality.

  Additional arguments to pass to the browser instance. The list of Chromium flags can be found here.

• Optional baseURL?: string

  When using page.goto(url[, options]), page.route(url, handler[, options]), page.waitForURL(url[, options]), page.waitForRequest(urlOrPredicate[, options]), or page.waitForResponse(urlOrPredicate[, options]) it takes the base URL in consideration by using the URL() constructor for building the corresponding URL. Unset by default. Examples:

  • baseURL: http://localhost:3000 and navigating to /bar.html results in http://localhost:3000/bar.html
  • baseURL: http://localhost:3000/foo/ and navigating to ./bar.html results in http://localhost:3000/foo/bar.html
  • baseURL: http://localhost:3000/foo (without trailing slash) and navigating to ./bar.html results in http://localhost:3000/bar.html

• Optional bypassCSP?: boolean

  Toggles bypassing page's Content-Security-Policy. Defaults to false.

• Optional channel?: string

  Browser distribution channel. Supported values are "chrome", "chrome-beta", "chrome-dev", "chrome-canary", "msedge", "msedge-beta", "msedge-dev", "msedge-canary". Read more about using Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge.

• Optional chromiumSandbox?: boolean

  Enable Chromium sandboxing. Defaults to false.

• Optional colorScheme?: "light" | "dark" | "no-preference"

  Emulates 'prefers-colors-scheme' media feature, supported values are 'light', 'dark', 'no-preference'. See page.emulateMedia([options]) for more details. Passing null resets emulation to system defaults. Defaults to 'light'.

• Optional deviceScaleFactor?: number

  Specify device scale factor (can be thought of as dpr). Defaults to 1. Learn more about emulating devices with device scale factor.

• Optional devtools?: boolean

  Chromium-only Whether to auto-open a Developer Tools panel for each tab. If this option is true, the headless option will be set false.

• Optional downloadsPath?: string

  If specified, accepted downloads are downloaded into this directory. Otherwise, temporary directory is created and is deleted when browser is closed. In either case, the downloads are deleted when the browser context they were created in is closed.

• Optional env?: {
      [key: string]: string | number | boolean;
  }

  Specify environment variables that will be visible to the browser. Defaults to process.env.

  • [key: string]: string | number | boolean

• Optional executablePath?: string

  Path to a browser executable to run instead of the bundled one. If executablePath is a relative path, then it is resolved relative to the current working directory. Note that Playwright only works with the bundled Chromium, Firefox or WebKit, use at your own risk.

• Optional extraHTTPHeaders?: {
      [key: string]: string;
  }

  An object containing additional HTTP headers to be sent with every request. Defaults to none.

  • [key: string]: string

• Optional firefoxUserPrefs?: {
      [key: string]: string | number | boolean;
  }

  Firefox user preferences. Learn more about the Firefox user preferences at about:config.

  • [key: string]: string | number | boolean

• Optional forcedColors?: "none" | "active"

  Emulates 'forced-colors' media feature, supported values are 'active', 'none'. See page.emulateMedia([options]) for more details. Passing null resets emulation to system defaults. Defaults to 'none'.

• Optional geolocation?: {
      accuracy?: number;
      latitude: number;
      longitude: number;
  }

  • Optional accuracy?: number

    Non-negative accuracy value. Defaults to 0.

  • latitude: number

    Latitude between -90 and 90.

  • longitude: number

    Longitude between -180 and 180.

• Optional handleSIGHUP?: boolean

  Close the browser process on SIGHUP. Defaults to true.

• Optional handleSIGINT?: boolean

  Close the browser process on Ctrl-C. Defaults to true.

• Optional handleSIGTERM?: boolean

  Close the browser process on SIGTERM. Defaults to true.

• Optional hasTouch?: boolean

  Specifies if viewport supports touch events. Defaults to false. Learn more about mobile emulation.

• Optional headless?: boolean

  Whether to run browser in headless mode. More details for Chromium and Firefox. Defaults to true unless the devtools option is true.

• Optional httpCredentials?: {
      origin?: string;
      password: string;
      username: string;
  }

  Credentials for HTTP authentication. If no origin is specified, the username and password are sent to any servers upon unauthorized responses.

  • Optional origin?: string

    Restrain sending http credentials on specific origin (scheme://host:port).

  • password: string

  • username: string

• Optional ignoreDefaultArgs?: boolean | string[]

  If true, Playwright does not pass its own configurations args and only uses the ones from args. If an array is given, then filters out the given default arguments. Dangerous option; use with care. Defaults to false.

• Optional ignoreHTTPSErrors?: boolean

  Whether to ignore HTTPS errors when sending network requests. Defaults to false.

• Optional isMobile?: boolean

  Whether the meta viewport tag is taken into account and touch events are enabled. isMobile is a part of device, so you don't actually need to set it manually. Defaults to false and is not supported in Firefox. Learn more about mobile emulation.

• Optional javaScriptEnabled?: boolean

  Whether or not to enable JavaScript in the context. Defaults to true. Learn more about disabling JavaScript.

• Optional locale?: string

  Specify user locale, for example en-GB, de-DE, etc. Locale will affect navigator.language value, Accept-Language request header value as well as number and date formatting rules. Defaults to the system default locale. Learn more about emulation in our emulation guide.

• Optional logger?: Logger

  Logger sink for Playwright logging.

• Optional offline?: boolean

  Whether to emulate network being offline. Defaults to false. Learn more about network emulation.

• Optional permissions?: string[]

  A list of permissions to grant to all pages in this context. See browserContext.grantPermissions(permissions[, options]) for more details. Defaults to none.

• Optional proxy?: {
      bypass?: string;
      password?: string;
      server: string;
      username?: string;
  }

  Network proxy settings.

  • Optional bypass?: string

    Optional comma-separated domains to bypass proxy, for example ".com, chromium.org, .domain.com".

  • Optional password?: string

    Optional password to use if HTTP proxy requires authentication.

  • server: string

    Proxy to be used for all requests. HTTP and SOCKS proxies are supported, for example http://myproxy.com:3128 or socks5://myproxy.com:3128. Short form myproxy.com:3128 is considered an HTTP proxy.

  • Optional username?: string

    Optional username to use if HTTP proxy requires authentication.

• Optional recordHar?: {
      content?: "omit" | "embed" | "attach";
      mode?: "full" | "minimal";
      omitContent?: boolean;
      path: string;
      urlFilter?: string | RegExp;
  }

  Enables HAR recording for all pages into recordHar.path file. If not specified, the HAR is not recorded. Make sure to await browserContext.close([options]) for the HAR to be saved.

  • Optional content?: "omit" | "embed" | "attach"

    Optional setting to control resource content management. If omit is specified, content is not persisted. If attach is specified, resources are persisted as separate files or entries in the ZIP archive. If embed is specified, content is stored inline the HAR file as per HAR specification. Defaults to attach for .zip output files and to embed for all other file extensions.

  • Optional mode?: "full" | "minimal"

    When set to minimal, only record information necessary for routing from HAR. This omits sizes, timing, page, cookies, security and other types of HAR information that are not used when replaying from HAR. Defaults to full.

  • Optional omitContent?: boolean

    Optional setting to control whether to omit request content from the HAR. Defaults to false. Deprecated, use content policy instead.

  • path: string

    Path on the filesystem to write the HAR file to. If the file name ends with .zip, content: 'attach' is used by default.

  • Optional urlFilter?: string | RegExp

    A glob or regex pattern to filter requests that are stored in the HAR. When a baseURL via the context options was provided and the passed URL is a path, it gets merged via the new URL() constructor. Defaults to none.

• Optional recordVideo?: {
      dir: string;
      size?: {
          height: number;
          width: number;
      };
  }

  Enables video recording for all pages into recordVideo.dir directory. If not specified videos are not recorded. Make sure to await browserContext.close([options]) for videos to be saved.

  • dir: string

    Path to the directory to put videos into.

  • Optional size?: {
        height: number;
        width: number;
    }

    Optional dimensions of the recorded videos. If not specified the size will be equal to viewport scaled down to fit into 800x800. If viewport is not configured explicitly the video size defaults to 800x450. Actual picture of each page will be scaled down if necessary to fit the specified size.

    • height: number

      Video frame height.

    • width: number

      Video frame width.

• Optional reducedMotion?: "reduce" | "no-preference"

  Emulates 'prefers-reduced-motion' media feature, supported values are 'reduce', 'no-preference'. See page.emulateMedia([options]) for more details. Passing null resets emulation to system defaults. Defaults to 'no-preference'.

• Optional screen?: {
      height: number;
      width: number;
  }

  Emulates consistent window screen size available inside web page via window.screen. Is only used when the viewport is set.

  • height: number

    page height in pixels.

  • width: number

    page width in pixels.

• Optional serviceWorkers?: "allow" | "block"

  Whether to allow sites to register Service workers. Defaults to 'allow'.

  • 'allow': Service Workers can be registered.
  • 'block': Playwright will block all registration of Service Workers.

• Optional slowMo?: number

  Slows down Playwright operations by the specified amount of milliseconds. Useful so that you can see what is going on.

• Optional strictSelectors?: boolean

  If set to true, enables strict selectors mode for this context. In the strict selectors mode all operations on selectors that imply single target DOM element will throw when more than one element matches the selector. This option does not affect any Locator APIs (Locators are always strict). Defaults to false. See Locator to learn more about the strict mode.

• Optional timeout?: number

  Maximum time in milliseconds to wait for the browser instance to start. Defaults to 30000 (30 seconds). Pass 0 to disable timeout.

• Optional timezoneId?: string

  Changes the timezone of the context. See ICU's metaZones.txt for a list of supported timezone IDs. Defaults to the system timezone.

• Optional tracesDir?: string

  If specified, traces are saved into this directory.

• Optional userAgent?: string

  Specific user agent to use in this context.

• Optional videoSize?: {
      height: number;
      width: number;
  }

  Deprecated

  Use recordVideo instead.

  • height: number

    Video frame height.

  • width: number

    Video frame width.

• Optional videosPath?: string

  Deprecated

  Use recordVideo instead.

• Optional viewport?: {
      height: number;
      width: number;
  }

  Emulates consistent viewport for each page. Defaults to an 1280x720 viewport. Use null to disable the consistent viewport emulation. Learn more about viewport emulation.

  NOTE The null value opts out from the default presets, makes viewport depend on the host window size defined by the operating system. It makes the execution of the tests non-deterministic.

  • height: number

    page height in pixels.

  • width: number

    page width in pixels.

Optional options: {
    args?: string[];
    channel?: string;
    chromiumSandbox?: boolean;
    devtools?: boolean;
    downloadsPath?: string;
    env?: {
        [key: string]: string | number | boolean;
    };
    executablePath?: string;
    firefoxUserPrefs?: {
        [key: string]: string | number | boolean;
    };
    handleSIGHUP?: boolean;
    handleSIGINT?: boolean;
    handleSIGTERM?: boolean;
    headless?: boolean;
    ignoreDefaultArgs?: boolean | string[];
    logger?: Logger;
    port?: number;
    proxy?: {
        bypass?: string;
        password?: string;
        server: string;
        username?: string;
    };
    timeout?: number;
    tracesDir?: string;
    wsPath?: string;
}

• Optional args?: string[]

  NOTE Use custom browser args at your own risk, as some of them may break Playwright functionality.

  Additional arguments to pass to the browser instance. The list of Chromium flags can be found here.

• Optional channel?: string

  Browser distribution channel. Supported values are "chrome", "chrome-beta", "chrome-dev", "chrome-canary", "msedge", "msedge-beta", "msedge-dev", "msedge-canary". Read more about using Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge.

• Optional chromiumSandbox?: boolean

  Enable Chromium sandboxing. Defaults to false.

• Optional devtools?: boolean

  Chromium-only Whether to auto-open a Developer Tools panel for each tab. If this option is true, the headless option will be set false.

• Optional downloadsPath?: string

  If specified, accepted downloads are downloaded into this directory. Otherwise, temporary directory is created and is deleted when browser is closed. In either case, the downloads are deleted when the browser context they were created in is closed.

• Optional env?: {
      [key: string]: string | number | boolean;
  }

  Specify environment variables that will be visible to the browser. Defaults to process.env.

  • [key: string]: string | number | boolean

• Optional executablePath?: string

  Path to a browser executable to run instead of the bundled one. If executablePath is a relative path, then it is resolved relative to the current working directory. Note that Playwright only works with the bundled Chromium, Firefox or WebKit, use at your own risk.

• Optional firefoxUserPrefs?: {
      [key: string]: string | number | boolean;
  }

  Firefox user preferences. Learn more about the Firefox user preferences at about:config.

  • [key: string]: string | number | boolean

• Optional handleSIGHUP?: boolean

  Close the browser process on SIGHUP. Defaults to true.

• Optional handleSIGINT?: boolean

  Close the browser process on Ctrl-C. Defaults to true.

• Optional handleSIGTERM?: boolean

  Close the browser process on SIGTERM. Defaults to true.

• Optional headless?: boolean

  Whether to run browser in headless mode. More details for Chromium and Firefox. Defaults to true unless the devtools option is true.

• Optional ignoreDefaultArgs?: boolean | string[]

  If true, Playwright does not pass its own configurations args and only uses the ones from args. If an array is given, then filters out the given default arguments. Dangerous option; use with care. Defaults to false.

• Optional logger?: Logger

  Logger sink for Playwright logging.

• Optional port?: number

  Port to use for the web socket. Defaults to 0 that picks any available port.

• Optional proxy?: {
      bypass?: string;
      password?: string;
      server: string;
      username?: string;
  }

  Network proxy settings.

  • Optional bypass?: string

    Optional comma-separated domains to bypass proxy, for example ".com, chromium.org, .domain.com".

  • Optional password?: string

    Optional password to use if HTTP proxy requires authentication.

  • server: string

    Proxy to be used for all requests. HTTP and SOCKS proxies are supported, for example http://myproxy.com:3128 or socks5://myproxy.com:3128. Short form myproxy.com:3128 is considered an HTTP proxy.

  • Optional username?: string

    Optional username to use if HTTP proxy requires authentication.

• Optional timeout?: number

  Maximum time in milliseconds to wait for the browser instance to start. Defaults to 30000 (30 seconds). Pass 0 to disable timeout.

• Optional tracesDir?: string

  If specified, traces are saved into this directory.

• Optional wsPath?: string

  Path at which to serve the Browser Server. For security, this defaults to an unguessable string.

  NOTE Any process or web page (including those running in Playwright) with knowledge of the wsPath can take control of the OS user. For this reason, you should use an unguessable token when using this option.