[Question] Android automation with other browsers?

[nicoandmee]

I noticed launchBrowser can accept a pkg parameter. Is there any limitation that makes it impossible to use other chromium based browser such as Brave? For my use-case, the site in question blacklists traffic from the Chrome browser, but it will work from Brave. I suspect this is because Brave blocks whatever invasive fingerprinting is happening.

However, it doesn't seem to work when I tried. Here is the basic test script I am using.

const { _android: android } = require('playwright');

(async () => {
  // Connect to the device.
  const [device] = await android.devices();
  console.log(`Model: ${device.model()}`);
  console.log(`Serial: ${device.serial()}`);

  await device.shell('am force-stop com.brave.browser');
  const context = await device.launchBrowser({
    pkg: 'com.brave.browser_beta',
  });

  const page = await context.newPage();

  await page.goto('https://www.google.com', { waitUntil: 'networkidle' });
  // Close the device.
  await device.close();
})();

[yury-s]

If Brave preserve Chromium command line options and CDP it should work. What error do you see?

[yury-s]

We are currently not planning to invest into dedicated support for Brave. If you figure out how to launch it with playwright, please let us know, we can include it into our documentation so that others could benefit too.

[pavelfeldman]

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