playwright-java VS playwright-python

- Playwright for controlling the browser (https://playwright.dev/java/).

For more detailed tutorials and resources, visit the official Playwright documentation.

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

TikTok uses quite a lot of JavaScript on its site, both for displaying content and for analyzing user behavior, including detecting and blocking crawlers. Therefore, for crawling TikTok, we'll use a headless browser with Playwright.

Integrating Ollama, Microsoft vision models and Playwright I've made a simple agent that can browse websites and data to answer your query.

Do you have to use Curl? It wouldn't render a lot of sites correctly anyway (anything that uses JS for rendering).

Can you run a puppeteer/playwright instance and add an ad blocker to that? e.g. https://github.com/ghostery/adblocker or https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-python/issues/782

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/