Playwright vs Selenium: A Real-World Data Engineering Perspective
I've used both in production scrapers. Here's the honest comparison nobody writes — including the part where Selenium still wins.
The hot take is: use Playwright. The nuanced take is: it depends on what you’re scraping, how your infra is set up, and whether you enjoy debugging Chrome DevTools Protocol errors at midnight. I’ve run both in production. Here’s what I actually think.