Login and Scrape Data with Playwright and Python 

This is the first time I got introduced to Playwright, so much more elegant than Selenium. Thanks for sharing!

Great video John, as usual! I started using playwirght a few months ago and prefer it to selenium or helium, it is much faster, way less error prone and it is being updated constantly.

2:38 bro thought we couldnt see "bye"??? btw your video helped greatly!

You have the absolute best videos on RU-vid!!! I'm resisting the urge to type in all caps right now lol but seriously, this video just helped me finish a $200 project!! Thanks again for all you do for the community 🙏🙏🙏

After seeing many videos and trials to do web scraping on secured websites, this has finally brought the solution. Thank you so much! Attention on cookies: Playwright acts as a new/clean browser. So opening a website from the script is like visiting it for the first time. I discovered that the website I wanted to scrape, started with a cookie banner that you have to click. So before filling in the username and password, I had to do a page.click('button#btn-accept-cookies')

Great video and practical example! Would like to see more advanced stuff with playwright.

Thanks again for intro very useful! Had a quick question what could be the cause of browser failing to launch despite using headless=False please? For context my code below in PyCharm Windows What I've tried to do A)I've tried using webkit, chromium and firefox to check if it's a browser issue B)Checked the code, but I get the message in PyCharm "Process finished with exit code 0" which implies nothing wrong with the code, C)I've search Stack Overflow and Playwright also without success for a solution Thanks in advance Script Below I'm using in Pycharm ================================================== from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright def main(): with sync_playwright() as p: browser = p.webkit.launch(headless=False) page = browser.new_page() page.goto("www.google.com/") page.wait_for_timeout(5000) =====================================================

total_orders = soup.find('h2', {'class': 'pull-right'}).text AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'text' what's the reason of this ?

Great Work Man! Always right to the point and no fillers. Thanks for you hard work 🙌!

Can playwright be pointed to the browser installed on the machine instead of the one that is playwright installs?

Hi John. Just wanted to say thank you and please keep making these videos. I have been studying Data Analytics online and just got a job offer for analytics position. Even thought it does not directly require programming skills your helped me to stay motivated, opened up opportunities for automation and inspired to do some interesting projects. Thanks again and keep it up!

Great content as always john. Can you cover about record command codegen in playwright? python -m playwright codegen --help Usage: index codegen [options] [url] -o: save the recorded script to a file --target: Specifies the language for generating scripts, there are two types of JS and Python, the default is Python -b: Specify the browser driver Example : python -m playwright codegen --target python -o 'main.py' -b chromium www.youtube.com

Nice... How unique with helium? Seems bit lazy code ;) compared your tutorial. I'll try my end.

no nonsense and to the point short video. thanks John

Guys, please help me! Let's take a simple scenario, open a browser, go to google, search for 'word', press search, and the scripts ends. In selenium, after the search, the browser is still open and usable, i can browse through the search results. In playwright, the browser closes, even if i did not us browser.close(). How can I keep my browser open and analyze the search results of my google query?

John you are a great teacher. Thanks for your efforts. Can you please make a video for Amazon and Playwright. you know Black days are coming. Thanks

Using code in video I get this error, how do I fix, thanks. page = browser.new_page() ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I've been religiously watching your videos for the last week or so. Such a great source of information, you're a great teacher, very direct and to the point! I've succesfully set up a project scraping data from betting sites to find arbitrage opportunities - mainly via hidden API's. But some pesky websites seem to restrict their APIs - hoping to solve this with playwright :).

thanks bro, do you have any idea how to bypass a captcha with playwright ?

I like this, very useful, and it can be combined with Selenium if desired...

Getting Selenium running on Google Cloud Platform was so much stress. Last night I setup Playwright with no stress, no extra work was needed.

Thank you for sharing, i like your channel. Keep it up mate.

Bro how keeping browser open to collect datas dynamics?

Thank you very much. You made things so much simple, easy Thanks a lot

Great stuff, as usual. I am using stuff I learn from your channel almost everyday.

Realy help me thanks a lot i need to hide browser page after connect in for loop

This video is also awesome. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. But I got the following error. Can you please help me for solving the error? File "D:\Project\My_Py\untitled2.py", line 10, in with sync_playwright() as p: File "C:\Users\user\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\playwright\sync_api\_context_manager.py", line 45, in __enter__ raise Error( Error: It looks like you are using Playwright Sync API inside the asyncio loop. Please use the Async API instead.

Mate you're the best for this stuff. Your deadpan style also makes me laugh. I bet you have a wicked sense of humour. Remind me of the russians. Dry as anything, and wizards with code!

Unfortunately, this project is not working purposes... The sites I need to log in to say these browsers are outdated... :(

i write the exact same code but it doesnt seems to be working.can you help me out,John?

Thank you so much. It helped me a lot..

I keep getting No module named 'playwright'

Dropping by to say thank you for this tutorial!!!! And also ask which theme did you use?

10 out of10 again! Haven't installed Playwright yet and wondered how you found it for speed vs Selenium? In an earlier reply you mention that you prefer PyCharm now over VS Code. Will the community version work for most or do we need the Pro version?

Hi John, I would like to ask if you still use Playwrite? or do you have new favorite? Like the tools I learn from you httpx and selectolax.

It's my luck to find your video,it make me learn python much easer.THANKS!

Excellent tute John, thank you for such clarity

Using jupyter notebook, I get: "It looks like you are using Playwright Sync API inside the asyncio loop. Please use the Async API instead."

very interesting, thank you

subscribed....... please keep on making videos like that ...thanks

Hello John, please can playwright scrap Angular web pages?

Thanks for the tutorial... I think the demo site has changed though, the last part of the script does not work. In particular the html output of page.inner_html('#content') looks nothing like the demo and the subsequent steps do not return the results in the tutoral.

Traceback (most recent call last): File "c:\Users\Sellitrage\Desktop\playwright test1\main.py", line 1, in from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright File "C:\Users\Sellitrage\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\playwright\sync_api\__init__.py", line 25, in facing this error while running dont know how to solve this....please guide me.

It look much easier and cleaner than selenium. Thanks for the great video.

Very helpful as usual. I look forward to your Playwright series

Thanks! Master Rooney.

Very informative video. Looking for more videos on playwright.

I ger error RuntimeError: Event loop is closed sys:1: RuntimeWarning: coroutine 'Page.goto' was never awaited Can you help me?

Thank you for a useful and concise tutorial. So many Playwright videos are all tied up with Pytest, which I don't need for my usecases.

@user-ul6tf3dp9v il y a 1 seconde no way to succeed the second test. got (ERROR tests/test_search.py::test_basic_duckduckgo_search[chromium] - playwright._impl._api_types.Error: Executable doesn't exist at C:\Users\flosr\AppData\Local\ms-playwright\chromium-1071\chrome-win\chrome.exe) and solutions found on internet to upgrade the robot thing are ineffective. Playwright is useless

Thank you my brother!

Hii..Mr. John, I'm working on a playwright Python project where I want to print the response.json() of a particular response. Kindly make a video on the request-response in the playwright.

wow how do you run headed browser just like that? on my wsl it wants me to xvfb-run (whatever this is) for some reason

Thank you John, please make more videos of playwright.

Thanks for your great video. I have 2 problems can you help me about it: 1. Use playwright to crawl website. But after click on button --> ajax call --> how i can reload data from ajax response. 2. After use playwright to login, can we use scrapy to send new request and crawl data.

I have faced this error while applying the code, any suggestion? Looks like Playwright was just installed or updated. ║ ║ Please run the following command to download new browsers

My first intro into Playwright :) It's awesome, thank you!

Thanks for sharing these awesome tutorials. You sir, are a gem

Good competition between Cypress vs Playwright vs Selenium. Thanks for this video. Love from Pakistan 🇵🇰

Great video!!....is there more tutorials/videos on playwright (for scraping)?

Amazing content Thanks sir

I am logging to a site with 2F authentication. First there is a captcha and then after keying captcha there is an OTP. How do we code to accept user input of captcha and OTP (selenium or playwright)? Help will.be appreciated

Thanks, Koushig. I have a question: When I log into google I get the following message: "This browser or app may not be secure" error when trying to sign in with Google on desktop apps

great video sir...could you pls make a video about scrolling and scraping an infinite webpage like instagram...ill appreciate it...tnx

I'm wondering how we could scrape multiple pages, I've watched the crawl and follow links with scrapy video but I don't know if FormRequest is the way to go instead of playwright.

Great work 👌👏💯

Nice video. Is there a java equivalent for this? I also would like to have a word or two with you

Well done John, thank you so much . How fast is it Vs selenium?

which theme are you running on vs code?

Hi, does Playwright or its browser(s) need to be updated when a newer version of the browser that we are using for the scraping gets released?

Hello, please tell me, is it possible to somehow get the har file of a browser page without browsermob proxy?

Thank you very much for the awesome tutorials. I have tested the code and I got a result but after the result, I got such a message RuntimeError: Event loop is closed

i am facing huge gap of loading a secong page after a first page with this method and still nothing is printing in console, please help what to do

i got trouble, RuntimeError: Event loop is closed, when i ran the code in 7:28p. what are these errors?

Thanks John for sharing. How can I reuse the login session?

Thanks 😁

Hey John, I was precisely looking up for a technique like this for an upcoming project I'm aligned to where we need to login inside one of our company's internal web tool and scrape the leads generation table that appears post loggin in, write it to an excel file and resulting file will be attached to a Bi dashboard for automatic updates and publishing. Will this technique of yours work or would you care to give some more of yours experts advice? Thanks for being there. As a self taught pyhtoneer new to programming, you give me a lot of hope with your content. Thanks for being there for people like me. ❤❤❤❤

Hi, John can you make a video about asynchronous playwright to scrape multiple URLs?

What about captcha?

wow! cooooool

Thanks a lot!

AWESOME!!!! 🙌🙌🙌

How to scrape data without opening browser

Nice Video

I scraped a site with playwright inside my express js app.get() function. How would i deploy this scraped data to a website such as vercel? It works locally but when i try to host it on heroku i just get error 500 ?

Wow, this is much cleaner than selenium

Nice!

man you look tired, get a proper sleep!

what code editor do you use?

Great video mate! really helpful! Question - any idea how page content can be displayed while using pytest with bs4? my tests passing successfully but i can't "scrape" data from websites so i can't see all the information in the inner_html. I'm using vscode both as IDE and terminal and besides passed tests in terminal, there is no other information. any ideas?

Finally my Selenium webdriver headache has gone :D

As always, a great video John! As an expert in Requests, do you know if it is possible to use Playwright together with Requests? Tks

Great video! Thanks

you are the magician boss :)

Thanks for sharing john, this is a great tutorial ever

hey great video i loved it just wondering if it's possible to open multiple tabs simultaneously ?

Hi John. When I got the the line, sync_playwright, I got the error, saying that I was using the sync api inside the asyncio loop. Do you know how to resolve it?

Great! How do you decide whether to use playwright+bs or scrapy?

thanks john useful as usual

I found Helium work better for me