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How Playwright trended on Hacker News

Playwright was mentioned 3,728 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Feb 2026 with 210 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often Playwright appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Top Hacker News stories about Playwright

1. 1.Tracking supermarket prices with Playwright 467 points · 210 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Web automation: Don't use Selenium, use Playwright 408 points · 171 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Playwright: Automate Chromium, WebKit and Firefox 383 points · 141 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Show HN: Stagehand – an open source browser automation framework powered by AI 326 points · 86 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Show HN: Lightpanda, an open-source headless browser in Zig 319 points · 137 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Show HN: Crawlee – Web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js 282 points · 80 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Theheadless.dev – open source Puppeteer and Playwright knowledge base 255 points · 99 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Show HN: Crawlee for Python – a web scraping and browser automation library 254 points · 57 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Show HN: Playwright Skill for Claude Code – Less context than playwright-MCP 189 points · 45 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Closer to the Metal: Leaving Playwright for CDP 182 points · 118 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Playwright Tools for MCP 181 points · 34 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Show HN: I created a browser automation tool 176 points · 55 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN

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