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Popular Ways to Connect Apify with Playwright#
Popular Apify and Playwright Actions#
Generates a pdf of the page and store it on /tmp directory. See the documentation
Performs an execution of a selected actor in Apify. See the documentation
Overview of Apify#
The Apify API unleashes the power to automate web scraping, process data, and orchestrate web automation workflows. By utilizing Apify on Pipedream, you can create dynamic serverless workflows to manage tasks like extracting data from websites, running browser automation, and scheduling these jobs to run autonomously. It integrates smoothly with Pipedream's capabilities to trigger actions on various other apps, store the results, and manage complex data flow with minimal setup.
Connect Apify#
import { axios } from "@pipedream/platform"
export default defineComponent({
props: {
apify: {
type: "app",
app: "apify",
}
},
async run({steps, $}) {
return await axios($, {
url: `https://api.apify.com/v2/users/me`,
headers: {
Authorization: `Bearer ${this.apify.$auth.api_token}`,
},
})
},
})
Overview of Playwright#
Playwright is a Node.js library which provides a high-level API to control Chrome/Chromium over the DevTools Protocol. Playwright runs in headless mode on Chromium on Pipedream.
Using Playwright you can perform tasks including:
- Capture Screenshots: Convert webpages into images.
- Processing PDFs: parse and scan PDFs.
- Web Scraping: Extract data from websites.
- UI/UX Testing: Verify user interface and experience.
- Integration with Test Frameworks: Combine with testing frameworks.
- Task Automation: Automate web-related tasks like form filling.
- Functional Testing: Automate user interactions to test web application functionality.
- Regression Testing: Ensure new code changes don't introduce bugs.
Connect Playwright#
import { playwright } from '@pipedream/browsers';
export default defineComponent({
async run({steps, $}) {
const browser = await playwright.launch();
// Interact with the web page programmatically
// See Playwright's Page documentation for available methods:
// https://playwright.dev/docs/api/class-page
const page = await browser.newPage();
await page.goto('https://pipedream.com/');
const title = await page.title();
const content = await page.content();
// Close context and browser otherwise the step will hang
await page.context().close()
await browser.close();
return { title, content }
},
})
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