10 alternatives to playwright
microsoft/playwright — Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API. (98,221 stars, Apache-2.0, ui, scraping, integration).
These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 819 licence-cleared components from microsoft/playwright itself.
| # | Repo | Score | Licence | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | puppeteer/puppeteer | 7.7 | Apache-2.0 | 95,728 |
| 2 | vitest-dev/vitest | 7.9 | MIT | 17,284 |
| 3 | feder-cr/invisible_playwright_mcp | 6.0 | MIT | 880 |
| 4 | fastapi/full-stack-fastapi-template | 4.9 | MIT | 46,065 |
| 5 | testing-library/react-testing-library | 8.7 | MIT | 19,675 |
| 6 | usebruno/bruno | 7.3 | MIT | 47,801 |
| 7 | seleniumbase/seleniumbase | 5.4 | MIT | 13,165 |
| 8 | pytest-dev/pytest | 7.1 | MIT | 14,647 |
| 9 | ntegrals/openbrowser | 7.4 | MIT | 9,570 |
| 10 | qwikdev/qwik | 4.6 | MIT | 22,064 |
The alternatives in detail
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JavaScript API for Chrome and Firefox
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Next generation testing framework powered by Vite.score 7.9/10 · MIT permissive · 17,284 stars · 491 components · search them
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Playwright MCP server undetected by anti-bots and captchas: AI agent browses the web on anti-detect stealth Firefox, Python, undetected browser automation, scraping, computer use.score 6.0/10 · MIT permissive · 880 stars · 46 components · search them
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Full-stack web application template with FastAPI, React, SQLModel, PostgreSQL, Vite, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui, FastAPI Cloud, and Docker Compose.
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🐐 Simple and complete React DOM testing utilities that encourage good testing practices.score 8.7/10 · MIT permissive · 19,675 stars · 5 components · search them
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Opensource IDE For Exploring and Testing API's (lightweight alternative to Postman/Insomnia)
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📊 Python APIs for Web Automation, Testing, and Scraping. CDP Mode launches a stealth browser that bypasses bot-detection/CAPTCHAs. Adds stealth to Playwright and has an MCP server for AI agents.score 5.4/10 · MIT permissive · 13,165 stars · 105 components · search them
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The pytest framework makes it easy to write small tests, yet scales to support complex functional testingscore 7.1/10 · MIT permissive · 14,647 stars · 98 components · search them
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Let AI agents browse the web. An autonomous toolkit for browser-based AI agents.score 7.4/10 · MIT permissive · 9,570 stars · 82 components · search them
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Instant-loading web apps, without effort
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