playwright-python VS pyppeteer

Playwright

An alternative is to use a package like playwright (or Selenium) to run a browser remotely and login.

Using the tools at hand is often the best approach. That said, I've spent most of the last 13 years of my career automating browsers. For years, I used Selenium with a variety of libraries. After switching to Puppeteer/Playwright, I have zero interest in going back lol. Playwright actually has first party Python support. (Puppeteer has a port called Pyppeteer, but it's no longer maintained and the author recommends using Playwright)

https://playwright.dev/python/

This is pretty great for web automation https://playwright.dev/python/

Last I checked, pyppeteer wasn't a thing anymore, and I haven't tried Playwright but if it has a headless mode, thats what you want so you don't have a browser open.

Playwright

there are cases where a file contains at least 2 programming languages . A case like this is when using the playwright-python library i.e. the code is mainly in python, but it can contain also JS code within a page.evaluate() function. When I try to comment out some lines within the page.evaluate() function, VS Code uses the "#" symbol, instead of "//". I can use multiple cursors to insert the "//"., but it's not so convenient, So I was wondering if there is a way to tell VS Code that this part of code is JS and it should use "//" for commenting out or if there is a plugin that can do this job (I didnt find one...)

Playwright is pretty cool: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-python

The latest version of Pyppeteer, i.e., 1.0.2, can also be installed by executing pip3 install -U git+https://github.com/pyppeteer/pyppeteer@dev on the terminal.

Having async baked into Python both as a keyword and standard library has vastly opened up the number of use cases async will be used in where it is appropriate, one of my favorite libraries pyppeteer would have not existed in the easy nice way it can be used without asyncio: https://github.com/pyppeteer/pyppeteer

Yes, this is scraping. You need a legit new cookie issued by the site. The solution is to automate the going to get the cookies part. The most straight forward way to do this is probably using a headless browser through something like Selenium or pyppeteer.

Last I checked, pyppeteer wasn't a thing anymore, and I haven't tried Playwright but if it has a headless mode, thats what you want so you don't have a browser open.

pip install -U git+https://github.com/pyppeteer/pyppeteer@dev

The normal Puppeteer package is JavaScript, but I do see that there's a Python port called pyppeteer. I can't vouch for it specifically, but I imagine it's similarly easy to use as the JS version.