microsoft/playwright
- Total stars
- 97,766
- Today · UTC
- +3since 11:22 UTC
More actions
Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.
Save to My finds to follow releases and star growth. Saved in this browser.
About the project
A framework for web automation and testing that drives Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit through a single API. Suited for end-to-end tests, automation scripts, and AI agents controlling browsers.
Useful for
- Write end-to-end tests running in parallel across three browsers
- Connect Playwright MCP to an AI agent for web page navigation
- Capture screenshots or generate PDFs of pages via the playwright library
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate. Read the original README →
Star growth looks organic. Data as of October 15, 2026, 12:25 UTC.
The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.
Stars per day
Bars show stars per UTC day; the line is a moving average of available history. Gaps mean missing data, not zero growth. Today's bar is incomplete. Red marks spike days.
Why it’s trending
- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-15 (UTC), 11:22–12:12: 97763 → 97766 stars (+3). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +20 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- GitHub Trending TypeScript today: #17, +84 stars.
- About 7 forks a day — people are taking the code.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @Dev-next-gen (909 followers).
Measured growth: the last 7 completed days
New stars over 7 days: 529. +44% versus the preceding 7 days.
Daily measurements · UTC
- October 8, 2026
- 79
- October 9, 2026
- 80
- October 10, 2026
- 57
- October 11, 2026
- 69
- October 12, 2026
- 78
- October 13, 2026
- 97
- October 14, 2026
- 69
Largest measured day in the last 30 days: 97 · October 13, 2026. Days with data: 30.
Completed days come from GitHub star history; today and forecasts are excluded from this comparison. History checked: October 15, 2026, 12:24 UTC. Sources and measurement limits →
Three GitHub discoveries in each edition
What they do, why they are gaining interest, and what to check before using them.
Editions at 10:00, 16:00, 22:00 MSK.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 97,766
- Today
- +3 stars measured 2026-10-15, 11:22–12:12 UTC, ≈ 20 by evening
- Forks
- 6,612
- Issues and pull requests
- 39,768
- Watchers
- 612
- Language
- TypeScript
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Latest release
- v1.64.1 · October 14, 2026
- Created
- November 15, 2019
- Last push
- October 15, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Spotted in
- October 15, 2026GitHub Trending TypeScript today: #17, +84 stars
README badge
Paste it into your README — the badge shows the current magnitude and links to this page.
[](https://gitnova.dev/en/r/microsoft/playwright)