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v1.59.0

🎬 Screencast

New page.screencast API provides a unified interface for capturing page content with:

• Screencast recordings
• Action annotations
• Visual overlays
• Real-time frame capture
• Agentic video receipts

Screencast recording — record video with precise start/stop control, as an alternative to the recordVideo option:

await page.screencast.start({ path: 'video.webm' });
// ... perform actions ...
await page.screencast.stop();

Action annotations — enable built-in visual annotations that highlight interacted elements and display action titles during recording:

await page.screencast.showActions({ position: 'top-right' });

screencast.showActions() accepts position ('top-left', 'top', 'top-right', 'bottom-left', 'bottom', 'bottom-right'), duration (ms per annotation), and fontSize (px). Returns a disposable to stop showing actions.

Action annotations can also be enabled in test fixtures via the video option:

// playwright.config.ts
export default defineConfig({
  use: {
    video: {
      mode: 'on',
      show: {
        actions: { position: 'top-left' },
        test: { position: 'top-right' },
      },
    },
  },
});

Visual overlays — add chapter titles and custom HTML overlays on top of the page for richer narration:

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• 01b2b15 cherry-pick(#39980): chore: more release notes fixes
• a5cb6c9 cherry-pick(#39972): chore: expose browser.bind and browser.unbind APIs
• 99a17b5 cherry-pick(#39975): chore: support opening .trace files via .link indirection
• 43607c3 cherry-pick(#39974): chore(webkit): update Safari user-agent version to 26.4
• 62cabe1 cherry-pick(#39969): chore(npm): include all *.md from lib (#39970)
• 0c65a75 cherry-pick(#39968): chore: screencast.showActions api
• f04155b cherry-pick(#39958): chore: release notes for langs v1.59
• 5a842ee cherry-pick(#39957): fix(dashboard): light mode styles (#39959)
• 32f6a31 cherry-pick(#39953): fix(trace): redirect output to file via --filename (#39956)
• c23fe70 cherry-pick(#39930): fix: trace request should show bodies from resource (#39...
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