With playwright 1.55.0 downloads don't go in scrapy body instead get exception

[bluthen]

I was chromium browser type using setting

            "playwright_page_goto_kwargs": {"wait_until": "networkidle"},

In playwright 1.55.0 I kept getting error about file page() and file downloading, like:

playwright._impl._errors.Error: Page.goto: Download is starting
Call log:

navigating to "http://localhost:8081/something.docx", waiting until "networkidle"

Whereas playwright 1.54.0 was working fine with scrapy-playwright. Even without accept-downloads: True.

Downgrading to playwright 1.54.0 allowed me to access these files like regular scrapy response and use response.body to get the content instead of getting the exception.

Something must of changed in playwright 1.55.0 that doesn't let playwright-scrapy handle files that want to be downloadable like it did before.

[Molkree]

This is probably the cause: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/pull/37082

[elacuesta]

Thanks both for the report and the upstream reference.