docker-selenium VS playwright-dotnet

Edit: I got some parts of it running. This video is very helpful. I gave up on the official docker repository for change detection io and switched to the LSIO version. I had to first install and run the docker Selenium container (available here). I installed the standalone version of Chrome from that page. Now I added one line to the docker-compose.yml in the environment section (as mentioned in the video. I did not add BASE_URL) and that was "WEBDRIVER_URL=http://192.168.1.15:4444" (this has to be an actual IP address, can't use "localhost" or anything else. I redeployed the container and the webdriver worked.

Selenium with Docker Selenium Grid https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium. Isolated and scalable.

Next is the image that we are using to run the docker command. Here we are using the Selenium Firefox standalone image with tag 4.0.0-rc-1-prerelease-20210618. More information about the latest versions available can be found from the official Selenium Github repository and the Docker hub public registry.

If you run your own, you need to account for your computer's processing power. That is the bottleneck. Check out this repo for more info. https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium

Same. I had sucess with https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium

If you look on selenium's dockerhub, there are many images to chose from which are much newer. As far as I'm concerned, that image is abandoned and I would definitely not use it. Not saying it is the reason for whatever happened to you, but kind of shocking that change detection is recommending it.

Playwright has a limitation that restricts running tests in Selenium Grid to only the version prior to 4.5.2-20221021 (at the time of this writing - February/2023).

I literally clicked on your link, followed the instructions and found this.

Playwright

Check out Playwright which is developed by Microsoft. It's like Selenium, but newer and maybe better. You can use it outside unit tests as a regular library.

SDET? Check out Playwright's .NET connector: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-dotnet

I'd suggest looking into https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-dotnet, it has been so much nicer to work with than Selenium.

I believe playwright can do the job, https://playwright.dev/dotnet/

Then you'd take that output and generate a PDF with Chrome: https://playwright.dev/dotnet/

If you've already got ASP.NET generating pages then you should try use this to save pages as PDF: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-dotnet

If you've ever wanted to pull data periodically from a website, or you are a QA automation person looking to do E2E (end to end) testing, then Playwright might be an option for you. Similar to Cypress or PhantomJS, Playwright is a library that allows you to automate ineractions with websites, you can even take screenshots and PDFs!