cdproxy

I've wasted a lot of time with connectivity issues between Python and Chromium.

Turns out playwright-python's WebSocket implementation is broken.

Released cdproxy to work around the issue. A Go binary that presents itself as a browser running with --remote-debugging-pipe proxying to a ws:// or wss:// URL chosen through the URL environment variable.

Install with:

GOBIN=/usr/local/bin go install github.com/pcarrier/cdproxy@latest

then replace:

from playwright.async_api import async_playwright

async with async_playwright() as p:
  browser = await p.chromium.connect_over_cdp(url)

with:

async with async_playwright() as p:
  browser = await p.chromium.launch(
    executable_path="/usr/local/bin/cdproxy",
    env={"URL": url}
  )

It's a hack, but it gets the job done.