launchPlaywright

Callable

• launchPlaywright(launchContext?: PlaywrightLaunchContext, config?: Configuration): Promise<Browser>

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• Launches headless browsers using Playwright pre-configured to work within the Apify platform. The function has the same return value as browserType.launch(). See Playwright documentation for more details.

  The launchPlaywright() function alters the following Playwright options:

  • Passes the setting from the CRAWLEE_HEADLESS environment variable to the headless option, unless it was already defined by the caller or CRAWLEE_XVFB environment variable is set to 1. Note that Apify Actor cloud platform automatically sets CRAWLEE_HEADLESS=1 to all running actors.
  • Takes the proxyUrl option, validates it and adds it to launchOptions in a proper format. The proxy URL must define a port number and have one of the following schemes: http://, https://, socks4:// or socks5://. If the proxy is HTTP (i.e. has the http:// scheme) and contains username or password, the launchPlaywright functions sets up an anonymous proxy HTTP to make the proxy work with headless Chrome. For more information, read the blog post about proxy-chain library.

  To use this function, you need to have the Playwright NPM package installed in your project. When running on the Apify Platform, you can achieve that simply by using the apify/actor-node-playwright-* base Docker image for your actor - see Apify Actor documentation for details.

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  Parameters

  • optionallaunchContext: PlaywrightLaunchContext

    Optional settings passed to browserType.launch(). In addition to Playwright's options the object may contain our own PlaywrightLaunchContext that enable additional features.

  • optionalconfig: Configuration = ...

  Returns Promise<Browser>

  Promise that resolves to Playwright's Browser instance.