Selenium is my favorite when I want to play around with web automation. This time, the framework I use for this kind of task is Playwright. Playwright is pretty new in the browser automation playground and is developed by Microsoft developers. I've been introduced to Playwright a couple of days ago and decided to test it by creating this small project.

Cookie Clicker is the chosen website for this project. I use Playwright to create a bot that navigates to this website, clicks on the cookie and buys any available upgrades.

Clone this project to your computer and install necessary dependencies. There are two ways you can install the dependencies.

• First way: If you have pipenv already installed globally on your computer, you can type the following command in your terminal.

pipenv sync

• Second way: If you prefer using pip, I also provide a requirements.txt file for you to install.

pip install -r requirements.txt

Before you can do anything, you have to run this command:

playwright install msedge

This will install Microsoft Edge on your computer since this project uses Edge to run automation. More details on how to install Playwright browsers.

Next, to the main thing, make sure you cd into the same directory level as main.py and type:

python main.py

This will spin up a new Microsoft Edge InPrivate window and automate all the game-playing tasks.

To run tests, simply type:

pytest

There is only one setting to change, it's GAMEPLAY_SESSION_MINUTES. It determines how long the automation runs before it ends in minutes. Currently, it is set to 5 minutes, you can change it to however you like. You can find this setting in the main.py file.