playwright-java VS playwright-dotnet

https://playwright.dev/java/ - Playwright is nice if you want to deal with dynamic webpages. It's not lightweight as jsoup as it internally using the real browser engines (headless), but there is no such limitations like in regular parser libraries with dynamic js content.

So I'm using the playwright library for a project (https://playwright.dev/java/), and I have like 4 different methods that navigate to the same page. Problem is, whenever I try to make a separate method for navigating to that part of the page, when I return that page and try to do things with it I get this error:

I'm so lost as to what to do to resolve this. I am trying to install playwright (https://playwright.dev/java/) into my Intellij IDE and I have run into so many problems. I have already tried looking for tutorial on how to do this but can't find one that helps me. I am also not familiar with Maven. I would MUCH prefer someone voice calling with me and walking me through it while I screen share than a text step-by-step. If anybody thinks they can help me with this problem, please temporarily friend me on discord, we can call and then you can unfriend me. Thanks. My disc is Sohezee#8362

Sorry. I was in shock because every time when request like this happened we asked a question about an API and if did not get anything we just told it's not possible/sustainable and client accepted it. Never I was forced to do things like that. I never would have guessed somebody does that besides of course data scrapping or SEO bots or something like that. I can't think of other solution if you really have to do that. Btw. maybe you know but if you are scrapping JS heavy apps maybe https://playwright.dev/java/ (or for other langs) would be of greater help.

Playwright supports all 3 major evergreen browsers and has Java bindings: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-java

Java (or Kotlin): https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-java

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!