When automating key site transactions, we inevitably stumble into login scenarios. In most cases, users need to be able to access accounts on a platform to get any value out of it. If they suddenly become unable to do so, we need to be informed as quickly as possible.
Giovanni RagoHeadless browsers are fully capable of taking screenshots, which is very useful in troubleshooting failures or faulty scripts. Using additional libraries and tools, it is also possible to automate vis...
Giovanni RagoThe way you reference a UI element of your target web application for Puppeteer and Playwright to interact with is through CSS selectors
Giovanni RagoSocial login using your personal Google or Google Gsuite account is a common use case for many login scenarios.
Tim NoletPuppeteer and Playwright also allow us to automate logging in to a Microsoft Live account.
https://login.live.com Tim NoletLet's start by creating a new directory and navigating to it. Assuming you already have Node.js
Giovanni RagoStraight from the official documentation
Puppeteer is a Node library which provides a high-level API to control Chrome or Chromium over the DevTools Protocol. Puppeteer runs headless by default, but can be configured to run full (non-headless) Chrome or Chromium.
Let's break that down:
Giovanni RagoUsers normally access most website functionality through clicks, keystrokes etc. Puppeteer and Playwright allow us to replicate these events by referencing elements on the page using CSS selectors
Every useful script that we will write will almost certainly do three key things:
Both frameworks handle these scenarios in very similar ways but Playwright explicitly differentiates itself from Puppeteer by having a "built in" waiting mechanism that covers a lot of common scenarios.
Initial navigation to any page is pretty much the same for both frameworks and can happen in multiple ways.
page.goto(), or a page.click() on a link, you explicitly trigger a navigation.location.href= 'https://example.com' or using the
history.pushState() API.In the example below we trigger two navigations:
Tim Nolet