Playwright Integration Guide: Connect to BotCloud in 5 Minutes

Introduction

Playwright connects to BotCloud through CDP (Chrome DevTools Protocol). If you already use Playwright, the change is minimal: replace browser.launch() with browser.connectOverCDP(). All Playwright APIs work the same way.

Prerequisites

• Node.js 18 or later
• playwright or playwright-core package
• A BotCloud API key from bots.win

npm install playwright-core

Basic Connection

const { chromium } = require('playwright-core');

async function main() {
  const browser = await chromium.connectOverCDP(
    'wss://cloud.bots.win?token=YOUR_TOKEN'
  );

  const context = browser.contexts()[0];
  const page = context.pages()[0] || await context.newPage();

  await page.goto('https://example.com');
  console.log('Title:', await page.title());

  await browser.close();
}

main().catch(console.error);

Common Patterns

Screenshot and PDF

const page = context.pages()[0] || await context.newPage();

// Screenshot
await page.goto('https://example.com', { waitUntil: 'networkidle' });
await page.screenshot({ path: 'screenshot.png', fullPage: true });

// PDF
await page.pdf({ path: 'output.pdf', format: 'A4' });

Waiting for Elements

Playwright's auto-waiting is one of its strongest features and works identically with cloud browsers:

// Wait for element to be visible
await page.waitForSelector('.content-loaded');

// Wait for network to settle
await page.goto(url, { waitUntil: 'networkidle' });

// Wait for specific response
const response = await page.waitForResponse(
  resp => resp.url().includes('/api/data') && resp.status() === 200
);

Data Extraction with Locators

const page = context.pages()[0] || await context.newPage();
await page.goto('https://example.com/products');

// Use Playwright's locator API
const products = await page.locator('.product-card').evaluateAll(cards =>
  cards.map(card => ({
    name: card.querySelector('.name')?.textContent?.trim(),
    price: card.querySelector('.price')?.textContent?.trim(),
  }))
);

Form Interaction

await page.goto('https://example.com/login');

await page.fill('#email', 'user@example.com');
await page.fill('#password', 'secret');
await page.click('button[type="submit"]');

await page.waitForURL('**/dashboard');

Network Interception

await page.route('**/*.{png,jpg,jpeg,gif,svg}', route => route.abort());
await page.route('**/api/analytics', route => route.abort());

await page.goto('https://example.com'); // Loads faster without images

With Proxy

const browser = await chromium.connectOverCDP(
  'wss://cloud.bots.win?token=YOUR_TOKEN&--proxy-server=socks5h://user:pass@proxy.example.com:1080'
);

Python Example

from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright

with sync_playwright() as p:
    browser = p.chromium.connect_over_cdp(
        'wss://cloud.bots.win?token=YOUR_TOKEN'
    )

    context = browser.contexts[0]
    page = context.pages[0] if context.pages else context.new_page()

    page.goto('https://example.com')
    print('Title:', page.title())

    browser.close()

Migration from Local Playwright

// Before
const browser = await chromium.launch({ headless: true });
const context = await browser.newContext();
const page = await context.newPage();

// After
const browser = await chromium.connectOverCDP(
  'wss://cloud.bots.win?token=YOUR_TOKEN'
);
const context = browser.contexts()[0];
const page = context.pages()[0] || await context.newPage();

// Everything below stays the same

Error Handling

async function automateWithPlaywright(url) {
  const browser = await chromium.connectOverCDP(
    'wss://cloud.bots.win?token=YOUR_TOKEN'
  );

  try {
    const context = browser.contexts()[0];
    const page = context.pages()[0] || await context.newPage();

    await page.goto(url, { timeout: 30000 });
    return await page.content();
  } finally {
    await browser.close();
  }
}

Next Steps

• Puppeteer Integration Guide - If you prefer Puppeteer
• Scaling Browser Automation - Running at scale
• Proxy Configuration - Geographic distribution