7 engineers on Hacker News describe using Playwright first-hand: 1 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“it's insane to maintain all of that because our competitors update their pages/dom frequently”
regret · production · epolanski · 2025-05-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use Playwright to both automate and scrape the site of a public organisation... the automation has already paid for itself many times over in a couple of years.”
endorse · production · 2 yr · sahmeepee · 2024-09-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“give it tools like playwright and github MCP for upstream context and search”
neutral · production · nejch · 2026-08-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The API is integrated into our Playwright tooling, so we run e2e tests that verify entire user flows”
neutral · production · olex · 2024-11-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use playwright to automate browser interactions and provide that as tool to the LLM.”
neutral · production · ajhai · 2023-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we've been migrating to Playwright, which Currents has supported as of this year.”
neutral · production · fluxsauce · 2023-11-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Playwright tests which exercise an UI flow.”
neutral · production · CSMastermind · 2022-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?