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Playwright CLI Browser Automation

Terminal-first browser control with playwright-cli — navigate, fill forms, screenshot, mock networks, trace, and generate Playwright tests.

Dev & CodingIntermediate★ 361⑂ 60AI score 9/10Last updated: Sep 6, 2026

What it does

  • Drives a real browser entirely from the CLI: open, snapshot to list element refs, then click, fill, select, drag, upload — no script files needed.
  • Captures screenshots, PDFs, and video, resizes viewports, and emulates devices.
  • Manages cookies, localStorage and sessionStorage; saves login state with state-save and reuses it with state-load.
  • Mocks third-party APIs via route, and debugs failures with tracing-start/stop, console, and network.
  • Falls back to run-code for the full Playwright API and points to guides for generating test specs.

Who it's for

  • QA engineers and frontend developers writing or debugging end-to-end tests.
  • Developers who want to visually verify flows on localhost or staging.
  • Anyone needing isolated parallel sessions or reusable authenticated state.

Examples

  1. "Log in and walk through checkout step 3, screenshotting each step" → open → snapshot → fill/click → screenshot --filename=checkout-step3.png.
  2. "Show me how the UI behaves when the payment API returns 500" → mock it with route, then inspect console and network.
  3. "Turn this signup flow into a Playwright spec" → record the interactions and generate code per the test-generation guide.

Note: only automate applications you own or are explicitly authorized to test.

· · · Install guide · · ·

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git clone https://github.com/testdino-hq/playwright-skill.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r playwright-skill/playwright-cli ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Make sure Node.js is installed (node -v).
  2. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/testdino-hq/playwright-skill.git
  3. Copy the skill into Claude's skills folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r playwright-skill/playwright-cli ~/.claude/skills/
  4. Install the tool and a browser: playwright-cli install --skills, then playwright-cli install-browser (if the command is missing, follow the repo README's install steps first).
  5. Restart Claude Code and confirm playwright-cli appears in your skills list.
  6. Smoke test it: playwright-cli open http://localhost:3000 followed by playwright-cli snapshot.
  7. Clean up when finished with playwright-cli close or close-all.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT