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Closer to the Metal: Leaving Playwright for CDP
Our journey migrating off Playwright in persuit of finer-grained control of the browser.
In our case that time has finally come for Browser-Use and playwright-python, the library that we've historically used to drive our browsers with LLM-powered tool calls like click, input_text, go_to_url. All these adapter libraries, drivers, and AI helper extensions really just exist to pass messages and make RPC calls to these underlying browser APIs: This API is elegant in some ways, the "playwright protocol" of commands provides a nicely typed RPC interface and standardizes behavior across languages.
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