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Tracing

API for collecting and saving Playwright traces. Playwright traces can be opened using the Playwright CLI after
Playwright script runs.

Start with specifying the folder traces will be stored in:

browser.new_page do |page|
  context = page.context

  context.tracing.start(screenshots: true, snapshots: true)
  page.goto('https://playwright.dev')
  context.tracing.stop(path: 'trace.zip')
end

start

def start(name: nil, screenshots: nil, snapshots: nil)

Start tracing.

context = page.context

context.tracing.start(name: 'trace', screenshots: true, snapshots: true)
page.goto('https://playwright.dev')
context.tracing.stop(path: 'trace.zip')

stop

def stop(path: nil)

Stop tracing.