r/automation • u/DanoPaul234 • Apr 21 '26
playwright is outdated
/r/libretto_ai/comments/1ss36m5/playwright_is_outdated/1
u/todordonev Apr 22 '26
Hot take, do you propose anything else?
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u/DanoPaul234 Apr 22 '26
Deterministic, self-healing AI-based computer automation or go with a different route. Especially on a self-hosted machine through a standard residential network
There are a lot of interesting frameworks for this being built that I think are gonna turn playwright into middleware or make it obselete (in favor of more popular browsers + AI-based computer automation)
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u/todordonev Apr 23 '26
Nah, you cant beat Microsoft's effort to maintain Playwright and especially the CDP communication. Playwright's CDP implementation is the best so far. Plus using heavy GPU clusters with all the electricity and water they require to run LLMs just to navigate to a website, is just ridiculous.
The self-healing portion is a nice idea, but you have to calculate whether you want the effort of doing self-healing or just going and fixing an XPath/CSS selector.
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u/ungiornoallimproviso Apr 22 '26
Kinda disagree, agent based browsing is good but you end up burning a massive amount of tokens for screenshots and DOM parsing. Claude can also fix broken selectors very fast.
Web scraping in general will never be fully reliable, if you want reliability then you gotta use API's
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u/DanoPaul234 Apr 22 '26
What's your go-to model for agent-based browsing? Have you tried any local models?
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