playwright-python
Python version of the Playwright testing and automation library. (by microsoft)
lxml
The lxml XML toolkit for Python (by lxml)
| playwright-python | lxml | |
|---|---|---|
| 35 | 20 | |
| 13,613 | 2,909 | |
| 1.1% | 0.9% | |
| 9.2 | 9.5 | |
| 5 days ago | 6 days ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| Apache License 2.0 | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
playwright-python
Posts with mentions or reviews of playwright-python.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-04-30.
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How to scrape TikTok using Python
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.
- reviewing prelude's django starter template(by Sheena O'Connell)
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Google and Anthropic are working on AI agents - so I made an open source alternative
Integrating Ollama, Microsoft vision models and Playwright I've made a simple agent that can browse websites and data to answer your query.
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Ask HN: How to remove Ads from a downloaded HTML file to output an ad free file?
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
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Scrape Google Flights with Python
Playwright
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Login for web-scraping help
An alternative is to use a package like playwright (or Selenium) to run a browser remotely and login.
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Show HN: Use cookies from Chrome (CDP) in cURL without copy pasting
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/
- Any extension to automate workflow in automatic1111?
- Can Requests be used to make a call to a js script? Need some guidance.
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I can't find any good Python Selenium tutorials out there. Anyone got any good links to video tutorials or even dcoumentatniton?
This is pretty great for web automation https://playwright.dev/python/
lxml
Posts with mentions or reviews of lxml.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-08-28.
- PSA: Libxslt is unmaintained and has 4 unpatched security bugs
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Release 0.44.0 of Spellcheck (GitHub) Action - baby-steps maintenance
lxml bumped from version 4.9.3 to 5.3.0, see release notes
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Current problems and mistakes of web scraping in Python and tricks to solve them!
My journey in web scraping started in 2016 when I was solving lead generation challenges for a small company. Initially, I used off-the-shelf solutions such as Import.io and Kimono Labs. However, I quickly encountered limitations such as blocking, inaccurate data extraction, and performance issues. This led me to learn Python. Those were the glory days when requests and lxml/beautifulsoup were enough to extract data from most websites. And if you knew how to work with threads, you were already a respected expert :)
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8 Most Popular Python HTML Web Scraping Packages with Benchmarks
lxml
- Looking for someone to web scrape housing data needed research. Will pay you for your work!!
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13 ways to scrape any public data from any website
Parsel is a library build to extract data from XML/HTML documents with XPath and CSS selectors support, and could be combined with regular expressions. It's usees lxml parser under the hood by default.
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lazy and fast .mpd file parser - for video streaming
So, now that I no longer work in that industry, and I had some free time, I created a lazy parsing package using lxml instead of the xml parser in the standard library, which can help people who want to have a python only parsing solution.
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Guide to working with fancier XML documents with python?
Seriously, use LXML.
- There is framework for everything.
- how to find text in website ?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing playwright-python and lxml you can also consider the following projects:
Playwright - Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.
xmltodict - Python module that makes working with XML feel like you are working with JSON
Scrapy - Scrapy, a fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python.
selectolax - Python binding to Modest and Lexbor engines (fast HTML5 parser with CSS selectors).
pyppeteer - Headless chrome/chromium automation library (unofficial port of puppeteer)
html5lib - Standards-compliant library for parsing and serializing HTML documents and fragments in Python