Any way to have playwright use our own set of browsers by default?

[derwerner95]

Hello,

I work as part of a team where we want to implement qawolf which uses playwright library for a continuous integration project. Our idea is to have dedicated "workers" who only need an initial setup on expert level which then can be called and issued different tests from our own web application.

Is there any simple way to install my own set of browsers into the playwright library which playwright will try to call by default?

I would appreciate all kinds of advice and suggestions!

[aslushnikov]

Is there any simple way to install my own set of browsers into the playwright library which playwright will try to call by default?

@derwerner95 what browsers are you looking to install? Playwright currently ships modified webkit & firefox, so it's only possible to use these atm.

[derwerner95]

@aslushnikov
Thank you for answering so quickly!

I'm mainly looking at Firefox ESR and chromium for now, but modified installations.
I've read in the API that you can pass an "executablePath " via browserType.launch([options]).
My question is, can I integrate my own set of browsers as a default? And if not, is there any way to access the API via a script? Gotta admit, i am somewhat lost in the library.

[aslushnikov]

I'm mainly looking at Firefox ESR and chromium for now, but modified installations.

@derwerner95 by "modified installations" - do you mean that you want to install browsers separately from the library?

[derwerner95]

Either that, or install them into the library - whatever works would be fine for me.
Passing Playwright my own browser via executablePath starts my browser but every other browser function cant return anything because "browser" seems to be empty.

[pavelfeldman]

Please refer to the installation docs on how to specify the browsers to use here. Not that Playwright only works with the browsers it bundles. Feel free to file bugs for the remaining issues!