browser-automation

Features and purpose

Browser automation powers web testing, scraping, and AI agent interactions. The difference between a flaky script and a reliable system comes down to understanding selectors, waiting strategies, and anti-detection patterns. This skill covers Playwright (recommended) and Puppeteer, with patterns for testing, scraping, and agentic browser control. Key insight: Playwright won the framework war. Unless you need Puppeteer's stealth ecosystem or are Chrome-only, Playwright is the better choice in 2025. Critical distinction: Testing automation (predictable apps you control) vs scraping/agent automation (unpredictable sites that fight back). Different problems, different solutions. Use when "playwright, puppeteer, browser automation, headless, web scraping, e2e test, end-to-end, selenium, chromium, browser test, page.click, locator, playwright, puppeteer, browser, automation, testing, scraping, headless, e2e, selenium, web-testing" mentioned.

Quick start

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