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playwright

A high-level API to automate web browsers

v1.63.0, 4 Sept 2026Apache-2.0ESM + CommonJSTypes: BundledTestingScraping and browser automation
$ npm install playwright

Key numbers

As of 25 Sept 2026
Weekly downloads
69.1m
+260% over 12 months
Gzip bundle size
-
No Bundlephobia data
Dependencies
1
Direct, from package.json
Last release
20 days ago
v1.63.0
GitHub stars
96.6k
6.5k forks
Open issues / PRs
157 / 18
Contributors
814
Commits, last 52 weeks
2,612

Downloads

Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
025m50m75m100mSept 2025Mar 2026Sept 2026High 87.5m (25 Aug 2026)Low 18.8m (23 Dec 2025)
Weekly npm downloads, one point per week, weeks starting 23 Sept 2025 to 15 Sept 2026. The y axis starts at zero.

69,104,951 downloads last week, 332,948,067 in the last month. The 12-month change of +260% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.

Releases, last 12 months
14188 in total
Latest version
1.63.0, 4 Sept 202620 days ago
First published
23 Jan 2015
Last push to GitHub
25 Sept 2026same day as the snapshot
Repository archived
No
Open issues
157
Open pull requests
18
Commits, last 52 weeks
2,612
Dependents on npm
5,422

Major versions

  1. v1 first release 1.0.0, 6 May 2020
  2. v0 first release 0.0.1, 27 Dec 2017

Recent releases

VersionPublished
1.63.04 Sept 2026
1.62.130 Jul 2026
1.62.024 Jul 2026
1.61.123 Jun 2026
1.61.015 Jun 2026
1.60.011 May 2026
1.59.11 Apr 2026
1.59.01 Apr 2026
1.58.26 Feb 2026
1.58.130 Jan 2026
1.58.023 Jan 2026
1.57.025 Nov 2025
1.56.117 Oct 2025
1.56.06 Oct 2025
Module format
ESM + CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
TypeScript types
Bundled
Node.js engine range
>=20
Runtimes
-
Unpacked size (npm)
4.9 MB
Dependencies (1)
playwright-core
npm install playwright

CDN

jsDelivr: 644.1k requests in 30 days
  • jsDelivrhttps://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/playwright@1.63.0/
  • unpkghttps://unpkg.com/playwright@1.63.0/
  • esm.shhttps://esm.sh/playwright@1.63.0
PackageWeekly downloadsGzipLast releaseModuleComparison
webdriverio2m-4 days agoESM + CommonJS-
allure-playwright923.1k-8 days agoCommonJS-
webdriver-manager701.8k-3 years agoCommonJS-
Sources: npm registry, npm downloads API, GitHub API, jsDelivr. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.

Indexability: Indexed.