Introduction​

With Playwright you can record videos for your tests.

Record video​

Playwright Test can record videos for your tests, controlled by the video option in your Playwright config. By default videos are off.

• 'off' - Do not record video.
• 'on' - Record video for each test.
• 'retain-on-failure' - Record video for each test, but remove all videos from successful test runs.
• 'on-first-retry' - Record video only when retrying a test for the first time.

Video files will appear in the test output directory, typically test-results. See testOptions.video for advanced video configuration.

Videos are saved upon browser context closure at the end of a test. If you create a browser context manually, make sure to await browserContext.close().

import { defineConfig } from '@playwright/test';
export default defineConfig({
  use: {
    video: 'on-first-retry',
  },
});

const context = await browser.newContext({ recordVideo: { dir: 'videos/' } });
// Make sure to await close, so that videos are saved.
await context.close();

You can also specify video size. The video size defaults to the viewport size scaled down to fit 800x800. The video of the viewport is placed in the top-left corner of the output video, scaled down to fit if necessary. You may need to set the viewport size to match your desired video size.

import { defineConfig } from '@playwright/test';
export default defineConfig({
  use: {
    video: {
      mode: 'on-first-retry',
      size: { width: 640, height: 480 }
    }
  },
});

const context = await browser.newContext({
  recordVideo: {
    dir: 'videos/',
    size: { width: 640, height: 480 },
  }
});

For multi-page scenarios, you can access the video file associated with the page via the page.video().

const path = await page.video().path();

note

Note that the video is only available after the page or browser context is closed.