promod

promod

Browser automation library with a unified API over Playwright and Selenium WebDriver.

Promod provides a protractor-like lazy element interface — elements are not resolved until an action is performed on them.

Installation

npm install promod

Promod requires a browser engine as a peer dependency:

# For Playwright
npm install playwright

# For Selenium WebDriver
npm install selenium-webdriver chromedriver

Quick start

Playwright

const { chromium } = require('playwright');
const { playwrightWD } = require('promod');
const { browser, $, $$ } = playwrightWD;

async function main() {
  const launched = await chromium.launch({ headless: false });
  browser.setClient({ driver: launched });

  await browser.get('https://example.com');

  const heading = $('h1');
  console.log(await heading.getText());

  await browser.quitAll();
}

main();

Selenium WebDriver

const { Browser, Builder } = require('selenium-webdriver');
require('chromedriver');
const { seleniumWD } = require('promod');
const { browser, $, $$ } = seleniumWD;

async function main() {
  const driver = await new Builder().forBrowser(Browser.CHROME).build();
  browser.setClient({
    driver,
    lauchNewInstance: () => new Builder().forBrowser(Browser.CHROME).build(),
  });

  await browser.get('https://example.com');

  const heading = $('h1');
  console.log(await heading.getText());

  await browser.quit();
}

main();

ESM / CommonJS

Promod ships dual builds. Bundlers and Node import will use ESM; require() will use CommonJS.

// ESM
import { playwrightWD, seleniumWD } from 'promod';

// CommonJS
const { playwrightWD, seleniumWD } = require('promod');

Selector strategies

All examples work identically with both playwrightWD and seleniumWD.

// CSS (default)
const el = $('.my-class #id a[href*="link"]');

// XPath
const el = $('xpath=.//div[@data-test="id"]/span');

// JavaScript function
const el = $(() => document.querySelector('div > span'));

// Custom selector (query + text filter)
const el = $({ query: 'button', text: 'Submit' });
const el = $({ query: 'button', rg: 'Sub.*' }); // regex filter

API

Topic	Link
Engine setup	docs/init.md
Browser (client)	docs/client.md
Element ($)	docs/element.md
Elements ($$)	docs/elements.md

License

MIT