Making Playwright Work on Alpine Out of Spite
Doing Who On What Now? Playwright is a Web Testing and Automation framework developed by Microsoft, it’s similar to Selenium or Puppeteer. The core project is written in nodejs and there are sub-projects offering the same framework in Python, .NET, and Java. It’s the Python project that I was specifically interested in due to its use in the changedetection.io container that I maintain for Linuxserver.io. The problem is that the container uses an Alpine base image whereas Microsoft only publish wheels for glibc, and they don’t publish the source to Pypi for pip to build, which means you can’t just do pip install playwright because it won’t be able to find a muslc wheel to install from....