Playwright Extra: Extending Playwright with plugins

Playwright is a framework designed for automating and testing web applications across various browsers using languages like JavaScript, Python, Java, and C#. Despite its popularity, it lacks extensibility for tasks such as web scraping, a limitation addressed by the community with Playwright Extra, a library that adds plugin support. Playwright Extra, boasting over 6.4k stars on GitHub, offers features like stealth browsing, CAPTCHA solving, and proxy management through its extensions. It integrates plugins from the puppeteer-extra project, including tools for bot detection evasion, CAPTCHA solving, and proxy routing, enhancing the Playwright's capabilities. The guide provides detailed instructions on setting up Playwright Extra, exploring its plugins, and applying them in various scenarios, as well as migrating existing Playwright scripts to Playwright Extra. Playwright Extra supports advanced automation tasks and is compatible with TypeScript, allowing for sophisticated configurations such as multiple browser instances with distinct plugins.