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playwright-php/playwright

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Modern PHP library for Playwright automation: browsing, scraping, screenshots, testing, and more.

Last release 17 days ago
20 Sep 2026
Release timing varies
gaps range from 1 weeks to 5 months
Nearly every release is documented
notes for 7 of 7 stable releases
Nothing withdrawn
no release was ever pulled
11 months old
7 releases · first in 2025

Release timeline

7 releases since 2025

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Releases

v1.5.020 Sept 20262 sources agree
Targeted browser installation through playwright-install [browser...]
Added

Targeted browser installation through playwright-install [browser...] (#165)

Package manager selection from the consuming project's packageManager declaration or --package-manager-bin (#168)

Fixed

Browser-context API requests preserve response status, headers, binary bodies, cookies, storage state and tracing (#163)

API request tracing and HAR recording use the correct request tracer with Playwright 1.63 and newer (#166)

Route::fulfill() decodes base64 response bodies (#162)

playwright-install keeps pnpm dependencies and lockfiles isolated from enclosing workspaces (#167)

Failure screenshots are named after the failing test again on PHPUnit 10 and newer (#169)

New Contributors

@Kocal made their first contribution in #167

@jacekzlotnicki made their first contribution in #169

@Toflar made their first contribution in #168

Full Changelog: v1.4.0...v1.5.0

v1.4.010 Aug 2026

Standardize on bin/.gitignore for bin/ artifacts by @kbond in #131

What's Changed

Standardize on bin/.gitignore for bin/ artifacts by @kbond in #131
Enforce $this-> for PHPUnit assertion calls by @smnandre in #132
Declare interface methods instead of annotating them by @smnandre in #136
Match the class attribute exactly in toHaveClass by @smnandre in #137
Add internal navigation redirect handling by @smnandre in #135
Merge splitted unit tests into one by @smnandre in #134
Add browser type and context browser by @smnandre in #133
Add console message metadata by @smnandre in #140
Add browser context timeouts and extra headers by @smnandre in #141
Add direct locator APIs by @smnandre in #142
Add DOM locator assertions by @smnandre in #139
Add page init scripts, drag and drop and headers by @smnandre in #138
Add frame evaluation and title by @smnandre in #143
Cover the parity additions left untested by @smnandre in #144
Add accessible text and ARIA snapshot assertions by @smnandre in #146
Consolidate assertion implementations by @smnandre in #154
Add frame navigation and evaluation by @smnandre in #145
Add observability features by @smnandre in #147
Add evaluation parity by @smnandre in #148
Add WebStorage, Credentials and Screencast support by @smnandre in #149
Add Network parity by @smnandre in #150
Add surface parity by @smnandre in #151
Add Browser bind and unbind by @smnandre in #152
Add HAR recording & API tracing by @smnandre in #153
Add missing runtime resource docblocks by @smnandre in #156
Add missing core API docblocks by @smnandre in #155

New Contributors

@kbond made their first contribution in #131

Full Changelog: v1.3.1...v1.4.0

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Additional notes

Added

BrowserInterface::browserType() and BrowserContextInterface::browser() (#133)
Public interface declarations for existing clock, input and response APIs (#136)
Console message page and timestamp metadata (#140)
Context headers and default timeouts (#141)
Locator actions, ARIA snapshots and bounding boxes (#142)
Locator assertions for DOM state and values (#139)
Page init scripts, drag and drop, and headers (#138)
Frame navigation, evaluation and titles (#143)
Accessible text and ARIA snapshot assertions (#146)
Console/error inspection, request waiting, media emulation, GC and touchscreen APIs (#147)
Evaluation handles and waitForFunction() (#148)
Web storage, virtual credentials and screencast controls (#149)
Network metadata and error/WebSocket accessors (#150)
Page clocks, ARIA snapshots, video access and locator file drops (#151)
BrowserInterface::bind() and unbind() (#152)
HAR recording and API request tracing (#153)
expect()->toBeAttached() (#154)

Changed

Shared auto-waiting and tracing for expect() assertions (#154)

Fixed

expect()->toHaveClass() matches the class attribute exactly (#137)
expect()->toBeEmpty() evaluates input values and text content in the DOM (#154)
expect()->not() applies to one assertion instead of leaking to later assertions on the same object (#154)

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v1.3.025 Jul 2026

Make PageInterface::waitForSelector match implementation by @stloyd in #74

What's Changed

Make PageInterface::waitForSelector match implementation by @stloyd in #74
doc: fix example script location by @gimler in #77
Make PlaywrightConfig mandatory by @stloyd in #72
Align Page getBy* locators with Playwrights JS API by @braydend in #76
Support PSR Log 2.0 in addition to 3.0 by @jakubtobiasz in #93
ci: use playwright-install --with-deps to fix local execution by @gimler in #86
bug: pass options to waitForActionable to override timeout by @gimler in #82
feature: clear cookies by name by @gimler in #85
bug: implement missing bringToFront function by @gyaaniguy in #89
feature: add waitForFunction by @gimler in #87
chore: update docs by @raffaelecarelle in #97
Fix ProcessJsonRpcClient never clearing the Process output buffers by @poman in #103
Fix LspFraming permanently poisoning the stream on stray non-LSP output by @poman in #106
Fix passive popup/tab registration in the Node bridge server by @poman in #104
Add issue templates and contact links by @smnandre in #115
Align interfaces with the shipped public API by @smnandre in #108
Register page default timeout actions server-side (fix #94) by @smnandre in #109
Remove setAccessible calls, no-ops since PHP 8.1 by @smnandre in #117
Shut down the Node bridge when its parent dies by @smnandre in #118
Let operation timeouts extend the RPC deadline (fix #92) by @smnandre in #113
Unify tracing on PW_TRACE and wire config tracing (fix #79) by @smnandre in #111
Send unroute to the page instead of the context (fix #96) by @smnandre in #110
Transport request bodies as base64 postDataBuffer by @smnandre in #116
Register context.setStorageState on the server (fix #98) by @smnandre in #112
Implement Tracing API & record expect assertions as trace groups by @smnandre in #114
Add the missing v1.2.0 changelog entry by @smnandre in #119
Keep node resolution out of the unit test suite by @smnandre in #120
Wire config options into launch and context creation by @smnandre in #121
Prepare release 1.3.0 by @smnandre in #122

New Contributors

@gimler made their first contribution in #77
@braydend made their first contribution in #76
@jakubtobiasz made their first contribution in #93
@gyaaniguy made their first contribution in #89
@raffaelecarelle made their first contribution in #97
@poman made their first contribution in #103

Full Changelog: v1.2.0...v1.3.0

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Additional notes

Added

Page::waitForFunction() (#87)
Clear cookies by name (#85)
BrowserContextInterface::tracing() exposing the Tracing API; expect() assertions are recorded as named trace groups (#114)
BrowserBuilder::withChannel(), withProxy() and withDownloadsPath() (#121)
PSR Log 2.0 support, alongside 3.0 (#93)
Interface @method annotations for methods already shipped by the concrete classes: BrowserContext::clock(), BrowserContext::setGeolocation(), BrowserContext::setOffline(), Dialog::page(), Keyboard::insertText(), Page::pause(), Response::headerValue(). They move to real interface declarations in the next major (#108)

Changed

PlaywrightConfig is now mandatory on the Browser, BrowserContext, Page and BrowserBuilder constructors (#72)
Page::getBy*() locators accept string|Regex, matching the Playwright JS API (#76)
PW_TRACE is the single tracing switch; contexts created from PlaywrightConfigBuilder::fromEnv() record a trace saved on close (#111)
PlaywrightConfig applies channel, proxy, downloadsDir, videosDir and minNodeVersion; videosDir also applies to the default context (#121)

Fixed

PageInterface::waitForSelector() returns LocatorInterface instead of ?LocatorInterface, matching the implementation (#74)
Page::bringToFront() is implemented (#89)
Page::unroute() reaches the page instead of the context (#110)
Page::setDefaultTimeout() and setDefaultNavigationTimeout() are registered server-side (#109)
BrowserContext::setStorageState() is registered server-side (#112)
Operation timeouts extend the RPC deadline (#113)
Request bodies survive non-UTF8 content, carried as base64 postDataBuffer (#116)
The Node bridge and its browser shut down when the PHP process dies (#118)
LspFraming recovers from stray non-LSP output on the stream (#106)
ProcessJsonRpcClient clears the Process output buffers (#103)
Passive popup and tab registration in the Node bridge (#104)
waitForActionable honours the options passed to override the timeout (#82)
Proxy credentials are redacted from the "Launching browser" log (#121)

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