Suggestion for Enhancing Chrome Extension Integration in Playwright

[Chetan11-dev]

Suggestion for Enhancing Chrome Extension Integration in Playwright

[mxschmitt]

We appreciate the suggestion and effort of you creating this package. We try to keep our dependencies and software we recommend small and make sure that the projects are backed by multiple maintainers / already gained popularity. Using a extension is usually a niece use-case. I recommend writing a few blog posts first about it, so it ends up on Google and users can try it out.

[Chetan11-dev]

Thank you for your response. I'd like to suggest that there's no need to bundle the extension with Playwright. Instead, you could simply include instructions in Docs to:

1. Install the library.
2. Use it.

Additionally, the library is a standalone file without any external dependencies. You can review the source here. Drawing from my personal experience in developing the Web Scraping Library Botasaurus, which has garnered 349 stars, I can attest to its utility. For instance, it offers customization options such as solving captchas, as outlined here.

It will occupy just a few lines in your docs, but adding it to docs can significantly save hours of playwright user's time spent on tasks like downloading, unzipping, and configuring extensions.

I understand that as playwright developers, managing numerous feature requests can be overwhelming, but incorporating this change could genuinely save developers hours of effort.

You can discuss it's utility among maintainers in a discussion and in case you find it a good addition to docs you can add it.
Thanks!