Playwright supports one of the most popular ways to parse HTML content in web scraping - XPath selectors. To use XPath in Playwright we can use page.locator() method and prefix our selector with xpath= or //. For example:
python
from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright
with sync_playwright() as pw:
browser = pw.chromium.launch(headless=False)
context = browser.new_context(viewport={"width": 1920, "height": 1080})
page = context.new_page()
page.goto("https://google.com/")
h2_element = page.locator("//h2")
# or
h2_element = page.locator("xpath=//h2")
âš It's possible that this command will try to find elements before the page has fully loaded if it's a dynamic javascript page. For more see how-to-wait-for-page-to-load-in-playwright
Also see: How to find elements by CSS selectors in Playwright?
