playwright
A high-level API to automate web browsers
npm says
158,889,509 / week
Every tarball fetch: mirrors, scanners, CI and people.
probably humans
≈ 158,858,542–158,889,509 / week
best guess 158,883,752 high confidence
Snapshot from the daily build of Nov 3, 2026, last 7 days of npm data. With JavaScript on, this page recomputes it live from the npm API.
How many people actually use playwright?
npm counted 158,889,509 downloads of playwright in the last 7 days. That count includes every tarball fetch: registry mirrors, security scanners, CI pipelines and crawlers as well as people. humanloads estimates that about 158,883,752 of them (likely range 158,858,542–158,889,509) were real human installs, with high confidence. That puts less than 1% of npm's weekly count down to robots.
How the estimate works
- Cut the spike every new version gets from mirrors in its first days.
- Subtract the flat floor robots download from every version each week.
- Show what is left as a range, with an honest confidence level.