Complete Developer's Guide to Cloud Playwright & WebSocket CDP

import asyncio
from playwright.async_api import async_playwright

async def run_remote_browser():
    async with async_playwright() as p:
        # Connect to pre-warmed cloud Chromium instance over CDP
        endpoint = "wss://agently.jobdriver.org/ws?token=YOUR_API_KEY"
        print("Connecting to cloud Playwright session...")
        
        browser = await p.chromium.connect_over_cdp(endpoint)
        context = browser.contexts[0] if browser.contexts else await browser.new_context()
        page = context.pages[0] if context.pages else await context.new_page()

        # Execute actions exactly as you would with a local browser
        await page.goto("https://news.ycombinator.com", wait_until="networkidle")
        title = await page.title()
        print(f"Page title retrieved from cloud browser: {title}")

        # Capture a high-res screenshot
        await page.screenshot(path="hn_cloud.png", full_page=True)

        # Always close the session to release resources back to the pool
        await browser.close()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(run_remote_browser())

import { chromium } from "playwright-core";

async function executeCloudScrape() {
  const wsEndpoint = "wss://agently.jobdriver.org/ws?token=YOUR_API_KEY";
  
  const browser = await chromium.connectOverCDP(wsEndpoint);
  try {
    const context = browser.contexts()[0] || (await browser.newContext());
    const page = context.pages()[0] || (await context.newPage());

    await page.goto("https://example.com", { waitUntil: "domcontentloaded" });
    const content = await page.innerText("h1");
    console.log("Extracted H1:", content);
  } finally {
    // Explicitly closing terminates the cloud container session cleanly
    await browser.close();
  }
}

executeCloudScrape().catch(console.error);