Playwright Recorder not working in VS Code

Troubleshooting
1

Hi,

When I try to add locators by clicking on Ressources → Playwright (Browser) → Playwright Reorder (Python)... I get:

robocorp code: 2023-11-10 16:34:24 UTC pid: 26128 - ThreadPoolExecutor-0_0 - INFO - robocorp_code._language_server_playwright
Running: c:\ProgramData\robocorp\ht\e5921b1_b1f3c24_59f207d3\python.exe c:\Users\rivad\.vscode\extensions\robocorp.robocorp-code-1.12.0-win32-x64\src\robocorp_code\playwright\__playwright__main.py

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\Users\rivad\.vscode\extensions\robocorp.robocorp-code-1.12.0-win32-x64\src\robocorp_code\playwright\__playwright__main.py", line 180, in <module>
    import playwright
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'playwright'

Funny thing is that when I run the robot it works:

Total: 1 Failures: 0

Filter:


* PASSTasks.ISOP (14.72s)

  * PASSKEYWORD - navigation to https://isop-20.example.com/ (14.68s)

    * PASSKEYWORD - RPA.Browser.Playwright.Open Browser (12.64s)

    * PASSKEYWORD - RPA.Browser.Playwright.New Page | https://isop-20.example.com/ (0.96s)

    * PASSKEYWORD - BuiltIn.Sleep | 1 (1.01s)

Any ideas?

2

Hi @Dominik,

What do you have in your conda.yaml file?
…and how are you running the robot?

If you take on of our python templates, does the recorder work then?

BR, Kari

3

Here my conda.yaml

# For more details on the format and content:
# https://github.com/robocorp/rcc/blob/master/docs/recipes.md#what-is-in-condayaml
# Tip: Adding a link to the release notes of the packages helps maintenance and security.

channels:
  - conda-forge

dependencies:
  - python=3.11.6                    # https://pyreadiness.org/3.10
  - pip=23.2.1                        # https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/news
  - robocorp-truststore=0.8.0         # https://pypi.org/project/robocorp-truststore/
  - nodejs=20.8.1                    # https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
  - pip:
    - robotframework-browser==17.5.2  # https://github.com/MarketSquare/robotframework-browser/releases
    - rpaframework==27.5.2            # https://rpaframework.org/releasenotes.html
#    - pip-system-certs==4.0 # required to access system cert store
    - robotframework-reportportal==5.5.0 # Robot Framework Listener for ReportPortal
    - robotframework-listener-icinga==0.0.14 # Robot Framework Listener for Icinga2 API
    - robotframework-listener-archive-output==0.0.4 # Robot Framework listener for archiving the output

rccPostInstall:
  - rfbrowser init                    # Initialize Playwright

Just pressing run in the VS Code extension.

Will check with the python templates on Monday.

BR, Dominik

4

Hi @Dominik,

Thanks for the report, managed to reproduce this and hunt the reason.

Drop NodeJS to v18.17.1, as robotframework-browser does not support v20 of NodeJS yet.

There is a channel dedicated to the robotframework-browser -library in the RFW community slack.

BR, Kari

5

Hi @Kari,

I couldn’t get it to work as NodeJS v18.18.1 isn’t found and 18.17.1 still produces the same error.

Will test with a new clone from GitHub - robocorp/example-playwright tomorrow.

BR, Dominik

6

Hi,
Yeah sorry I took the node version number from the wrong place… it takes some time for all versions to get to conda-forge so 18.17.1 is the latest one there.

(I edited my previous post to avoid confusion later on)

BR Kari