Gitit VS playwright-python

You're correct.

It says at the bottom: powered by https://github.com/jgm/gitit

Readme states that: "Gitit is a wiki program written in Haskell. It uses Happstack for the web server and pandoc for markup processing."

I’ve used the Gitit Wiki. Database is plaintext markdown files under git source control. Renders with pandoc so you get a really good dialect of markdown. The look and feel is a little dated but 8/10 highly recommend.

Instead of SQLite I would prefer if you stored the snippets in a git repo like Gollum or Gitit.

I use my own forked version of gitit (dark, full-width theme, with automated toc and some other tweaks) for the last 5 years or so which looks and functions quite similarly. I handled web bookmarking/clipping with xclip (rich text clipboard) + pandoc html-to-markdown.

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 (Puppeteer has a port called Pyppeteer, but it's no longer maintained and the author recommends using Playwright)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/

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...)

doing some googling looks like this should basically be the python version https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-python but I haven't used it so can't vouch for it.

playwright is a modern alternative to selenium. It can perform pretty much all interations as user would do i.e clicks, scrolls and many more.

Playwright for Python has really good documentation: https://playwright.dev/python/

I used it for my https://shot-scraper.datasette.io/ tool, and wrote a bit about CLI-driven scraping using that tool here: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Mar/14/scraping-web-pages-sho...

This is implemented with Playwright, a modern alternative to Selenium maintained by Microsoft and developers who formerly worked at Google on Puppeteer. I originally implemented it in Selenium but found that typing and button presses were inconsistent and failed too often. So far Playwright seems to be more reliable. For safety, the trading functions ask for manual confirmation (press enter) to place orders.

As we saw in a previous blog post about blocking resources, headless browsers allow request and response inspection. We will use Playwright in python for the demo, but it can be done in Javascript or using Puppeteer.