rustwright

t it pipes every call through a bundled Node driver process. This brings its own added memory / cpu overhead, whereas Rustwright drives Chrome over raw CDP from a Rust core, effectively skipping that overhead. Replacing Playwright’s node driver with a direct CDP connection changes three things: 1. Less abstraction means less complexity. The driver subprocess and its pipe sends CDP commands straight to Chrome instead of going through a middle layer with its own overhead. In our experimentation, the new engine is approx. 2.55× faster and uses 70% less memory than playwright 2. No Playwright driver fingerprint. Stock playwright screamed “I’m a bot” as anyone used it, and while well intentioned, created a frustrating rite of passage for new developers. With this rewrite, the driver doesn’t exist, so its famous signatures (__playwright__binding__ globals, Runtime.enable on the default path (the well-known console-serialization leak)) don’t exist. We just want to be clear: this means there are no Playwright-specific automation fingerprints, the library is not "undetectable" 3. An interoperable rust wrapper makes migration easy: Because rustwright is meant to be interoperable with Playwright, a developer does not need to migrate every callsite to direct CDP. Instead, they can just a one-line import change: from rustwright.sync_api import sync_playwright.All events (clicking / typing) go through the rust shim and execute real CDP calls (not synthetic DOM calls). Complex cases like cross-origin iframes also auto-attach with frame_locator() routing across origins, as you would want them to. Rustwright is built on Tokio (WebSocket, plus opt-in Unix-pipe transport) and the bindings are exposed to other languages in-process through thin language specific bindings (eg PyO3 bindings for Python and napi-rs bindings for Node). We’re planning on adding support for more languages soon :) Want to give it a try? Change one line of code! pip install rustwright - from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright + from rustwright.sync_api import sync_playwright Let us know what you think: https://github.com/Skyvern-AI/rustwright