playwright 1.60.0 on Python PyPI

🐍 Python improvements

New FormData class for building multipart/form-data request bodies — pass to api_request_context.post(form=…) etc.
expect.soft(...) soft assertions collect multiple failures in a test instead of stopping at the first one. Requires up-to-date pytest integration to work.
All timeout parameters now accept datetime.timedelta — applies wherever a timeout is taken, e.g. page.goto(), locator.click(), expect(...).to_be_visible().
Async context manager support across more APIs — async with now works for objects returned from screencast.show_actions(), screencast.show_overlays(), etc.
page.expect_request(...) and page.expect_response(...) now accept async predicates.
Typed overloads for expect_event / wait_for_event so the event payload type is inferred per event name.

🌐 HAR recording on Tracing

tracing.start_har() / tracing.stop_har() expose HAR recording as a first-class tracing API, with the same content, mode and url_filter options as record_har:

context.tracing.start_har("trace.har")
page = context.new_page()
page.goto("https://playwright.dev")
context.tracing.stop_har()

🪝 Drop API

New locator.drop() simulates an external drag-and-drop of files or clipboard-like data onto an element. Playwright dispatches dragenter, dragover, and drop with a synthetic DataTransfer in the page context — works cross-browser and is great for testing upload zones:

page.locator("#dropzone").drop(
    files={"name": "note.txt", "mime_type": "text/plain", "buffer": b"hello"},
)

page.locator("#dropzone").drop(
    data={
        "text/plain": "hello world",
        "text/uri-list": "https://example.com",
    },
)

🎯 Aria snapshots

expect(page).to_match_aria_snapshot() now works on a Page, in addition to a Locator — equivalent to asserting against page.locator("body").
New boxes option on locator.aria_snapshot() / page.aria_snapshot() appends each element's bounding box as [box=x,y,width,height], useful for AI consumption.

New APIs

Browser, Context and Page

Event browser.on("context") — fired when a new context is created on the browser.
BrowserContext now mirrors lifecycle events from its pages: browser_context.on("download"), browser_context.on("frameattached"), browser_context.on("framedetached"), browser_context.on("framenavigated"), browser_context.on("pageclose"), browser_context.on("pageload").

Locators and Assertions

New option description in page.get_by_role() / locator.get_by_role() / frame.get_by_role() / frame_locator.get_by_role() for matching the accessible description.
New option pseudo in expect(locator).to_have_css() reads computed styles from ::before or ::after.
New option style in locator.highlight() applies extra inline CSS to the highlight overlay, plus new page.hide_highlight() to clear all highlights.

Network

web_socket_route.protocols() returns the WebSocket subprotocols requested by the page.
New option no_defaults in browser_type.connect_over_cdp() disables Playwright's default overrides on the default context (download behavior, focus emulation, media emulation), so attaching to a user's daily-driver browser doesn't disturb its state.

Errors

New web_error.location() mirrors console_message.location().
console_message.location() now exposes line / column properties (line_number / column_number are deprecated).

🛠️ Other improvements

Trace Viewer adds a pretty-print toggle for JSON / form request and response bodies in the network details panel.

Breaking Changes ⚠️

Removed long-deprecated handle option on browser_context.expose_binding() and page.expose_binding().

Browser Versions

Chromium 148.0.7778.96
Mozilla Firefox 150.0.2
WebKit 26.4

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

Google Chrome 147
Microsoft Edge 147

playwright 1.60.0 v1.60.0 on Python PyPI