playwright-cli

name	playwright-cli
description	Browser automation workflow for navigation, interaction, and capture
allowed-tools	Bash(playwright-cli:*)

Browser Automation with playwright-cli

Use this skill when a task needs browser navigation, form interaction, screenshots, or data extraction from web pages.

Default workflow

1. Open a browser session.
2. Navigate to the target page.
3. Capture a snapshot to get element refs (e1, e2, ...).
4. Interact using those refs.
5. Snapshot or screenshot results.
6. Close the browser and clean session data when done.

Core commands

Session and navigation

playwright-cli open
playwright-cli open https://example.com
playwright-cli open --browser=chrome
playwright-cli goto https://example.com/page
playwright-cli reload
playwright-cli go-back
playwright-cli go-forward
playwright-cli close

Interaction and inspection

playwright-cli snapshot
playwright-cli click e3
playwright-cli fill e5 "[e-mail]"
playwright-cli type "search text"
playwright-cli press Enter
playwright-cli select e7 "option-value"
playwright-cli check e9
playwright-cli uncheck e9
playwright-cli hover e4
playwright-cli eval "document.title"
playwright-cli eval "el => el.textContent" e5

Output, tabs, and state

playwright-cli screenshot
playwright-cli screenshot e5 --filename=field.png
playwright-cli pdf --filename=page.pdf
playwright-cli tab-new https://example.com/other
playwright-cli tab-list
playwright-cli tab-select 0
playwright-cli state-save auth.json
playwright-cli state-load auth.json
playwright-cli close
playwright-cli delete-data

Working style

• Snapshot before and after meaningful interactions.
• Prefer stable element refs from snapshot output over coordinate-based actions.
• Use named sessions (-s=<name>) only when you need multiple concurrent browsers.
• Use persistent profiles only when explicitly required, and clean them up afterward.
• Use close-all/kill-all only for stuck sessions.

Quick example

playwright-cli open https://example.com/login
playwright-cli snapshot
playwright-cli fill e1 "[e-mail]"
playwright-cli fill e2 "password123"
playwright-cli click e3
playwright-cli screenshot --filename=after-login.png
playwright-cli close

Task references

• Request mocking
• Running Playwright code
• Browser session management
• Storage state
• Test generation
• Tracing
• Video recording