--- title: Web Automation: Don't Use Selenium, Use Playwright description: Selenium has been the de facto "standard" since forever. It's simple to get started with and supports almost every programming language. It doesn't work that... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/web-automation-don-t-use-selenium-use-playwright-wj2ae3kdr twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Web Automation: Don't Use Selenium, Use Playwright | daily.dev og:description: Selenium has been the de facto "standard" since forever. It's simple to get started with and supports almost every programming language. It doesn't work that... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/web-automation-don-t-use-selenium-use-playwright-wj2ae3kdr og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/wj2aE3kDR.png og:image:alt: Web Automation: Don't Use Selenium, Use Playwright og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Web Automation: Don't Use Selenium, Use Playwright **[Changelog](https://daily.dev/sources/changelog)** · 3 min read · 63 upvotes · 7 comments ## Summary Selenium has been the de facto "standard" since forever. It's simple to get started with and supports almost every programming language. It doesn't work that well with modern, Javascript framework heavy sites. Playwright gives a fairly good implementation that I found works most of the time. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@muditlambda** · 1 upvotes > Good post **@akashpattnaik** · 1 upvotes > wow, that is so amazing! Thanks man, it really helps. **@oleksadev** · 0 upvotes > Features that help automatically generate tests is awesome, so Playwright convert all your activities on the page into typescript test. **@star\_knight\_\_\_** · 0 upvotes > It is very helpful. **@mishrarishabhh18** · 0 upvotes > Really helpful.. --- Tags: [#javascript](https://daily.dev/tags/javascript), [#tools](https://daily.dev/tags/tools), [#testing](https://daily.dev/tags/testing), [#automation](https://daily.dev/tags/automation), [#selenium](https://daily.dev/tags/selenium) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/web-automation-don-t-use-selenium-use-playwright-wj2ae3kdr) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Web Automation: Don't Use Selenium, Use Playwright","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/web-automation-don-t-use-selenium-use-playwright-wj2ae3kdr","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/web-automation-don-t-use-selenium-use-playwright-wj2ae3kdr"},"datePublished":"2022-11-10T15:20:01.644Z","dateModified":"2022-11-10T15:20:01.643Z","description":"Selenium has been the de facto \"standard\" since forever. 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Thanks man, it really helps.","datePublished":"2022-11-10T16:29:59.815Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/wj2aE3kDR#c-04VItKVHE","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Akash Pattanaik","url":"https://daily.dev/akashpattnaik","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/55914808?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Features that help automatically generate tests is awesome, so Playwright convert all your activities on the page into typescript test.","datePublished":"2022-11-15T11:38:41.704Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/wj2aE3kDR#c-kxbz7KUis","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Oleksa","url":"https://daily.dev/oleksadev","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/v1668593415/avatars/avatar_JMqC3D5zVTB98mh8RdQhI.jpg"}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"It is very helpful.","datePublished":"2022-11-30T17:06:54.056Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/wj2aE3kDR#c-MD8yPxcJz","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"StarKnight","url":"https://daily.dev/star_knight___","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/92244026?v=4"}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Really helpful…","datePublished":"2024-11-13T04:24:02.069Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/wj2aE3kDR#c-jtpsf2Rwl","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Rishabh Mishra","url":"https://daily.dev/mishrarishabhh18","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--piKpTudq--/f_auto/v1731471939/avatars/avatar_6HZw8kmYWEy7jRui1DFGl"}}]} ```