microsoft/playwright

Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.

97.7k stars · 6.6k forks · TypeScript

Healthy

Healthy: actively maintained by 48 people, no known risks.

Why

No rule fired.

What would change this

Partly checked: maintenance (Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.; Authors in the last 90 days are counted from the sampled commits only.)
A dormant maintenance status, a deprecated or archived package, a successor link, or a critical advisory would change this.

Maintenance

Partial

Active

Human commits, 30 days: 253
Human commits, 90 days: 594
Human commits, 365 days: 2.4k
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 12%
Last commit: Oct 14, 2026 (1 day ago)
Last human commit: Oct 14, 2026 (1 day ago)
Authors, 90 days: 48
Last release: Oct 7, 2026 (7 days ago)
Median PR merge time: 4 hours

Responsiveness: of 30 recent issues, 93% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 13 hours.

Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.
Authors in the last 90 days are counted from the sampled commits only.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete

Owner: Organization
Commits sampled: 440 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 2
Authors for 80% of commits: 4
Contributors: 469

Top committers

pavelfeldman: 31% of commits
yury-s: 26% of commits
dgozman: 19% of commits
dcrousso: 4% of commits
ashrafiucse: 2% of commits

Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Organic, confidence high

Bars show stars gained each week. Orange bars overlap a burst.

Bursts

Jan 22, 2020 to Feb 25, 2020: about 9k more stars than usual, peak 2.4k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
May 7, 2020 to May 16, 2020: about 599 more stars than usual, peak 150 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 15, 2020 to Jun 16, 2020: about 273 more stars than usual, peak 180 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 28, 2020 to Jul 30, 2020: about 136 more stars than usual, peak 98 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 19, 2020 to Aug 19, 2020: about 65 more stars than usual, peak 85 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 17, 2020 to Dec 23, 2020: about 739 more stars than usual, peak 223 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Feb 26, 2021 to Feb 26, 2021: about 144 more stars than usual, peak 170 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 26, 2021 to Mar 26, 2021: about 113 more stars than usual, peak 136 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 10, 2021 to Jun 12, 2021: about 342 more stars than usual, peak 179 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 29, 2021 to Jul 30, 2021: about 295 more stars than usual, peak 169 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 12, 2021 to Oct 21, 2021: about 1.5k more stars than usual, peak 250 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Jan 27, 2022 to Jan 31, 2022: about 755 more stars than usual, peak 374 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 26, 2022 to Mar 26, 2022: about 123 more stars than usual, peak 157 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 22, 2022 to May 23, 2022: about 256 more stars than usual, peak 238 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 18, 2022 to Aug 18, 2022: about 97 more stars than usual, peak 126 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 14, 2022 to Sep 16, 2022: about 278 more stars than usual, peak 183 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 30, 2022 to Dec 1, 2022: about 116 more stars than usual, peak 102 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 15, 2022 to Dec 16, 2022: about 160 more stars than usual, peak 167 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 16, 2023 to May 25, 2023: about 747 more stars than usual, peak 185 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 27, 2023 to Jul 28, 2023: about 148 more stars than usual, peak 123 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 13, 2023 to Sep 13, 2023: about 134 more stars than usual, peak 162 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 31, 2024 to Feb 3, 2024: about 362 more stars than usual, peak 187 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 19, 2024 to Mar 21, 2024: about 315 more stars than usual, peak 239 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 13, 2024 to Jun 14, 2024: about 224 more stars than usual, peak 200 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 31, 2024 to Sep 1, 2024: about 125 more stars than usual, peak 132 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 7, 2024 to Dec 7, 2024: about 102 more stars than usual, peak 125 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 24, 2025 to Jun 25, 2025: about 242 more stars than usual, peak 205 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.

9 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 13, 2026).

Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.

The star history looks organic.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Complete

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now: Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)
A year ago: Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 5.6 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: microsoft/playwright

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Earlier verdicts

Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
Oct 13, 2026: Healthy
Oct 13, 2026: Healthy

Computed 19 hours ago · method 2026.10.2