Support the conda package manager for installation

[desilinguist]

It would be really useful if a conda recipe was added so that playwright was also available in the conda-forge community channel and usable with conda. Any plans to do this?

[pavelfeldman]

If this gains enough support (thumbs ups), we will welcome the patches that use other package managers!

[fcollonval]

Hey I'm familiar with conda packaging and willing to create one package for this amazing tool.

Those recipes are stored on specific project on conda-forge organization. As part of the process of adding a recipe, I must got the agreement of all recipe maintainers. Does some of the project maintainers want to be added as conda recipe maintainer as well?

[jtpio]

Thanks all, having playwright on conda-forge would be great!

It should be possible to quickly generate the recipe using a tool like grayskull: https://github.com/conda-incubator/grayskull

However we will probably need to have an sdist uploaded to PyPI first to make the packaging easier, as there seems to be only wheels at the moment for the latest version: https://pypi.org/project/playwright/1.8.0a1/#files

[jtpio]

However we will probably need to have an sdist uploaded to PyPI first to make the packaging easier, as there seems to be only wheels at the moment for the latest version: https://pypi.org/project/playwright/1.8.0a1/#files

Taking a closer look, it might actually require a couple more steps to include the drivers.

[kumaraditya303]

Currently the drivers are copied into the platform specific wheel file hence it works, even in conda the same would be required. @jtpio sdist is not uploaded as there is no way one could use playwright building from source.

[mxschmitt]

Linking conda-forge/staged-recipes#14387

[kumaraditya303]

Conda Update: All the tests of all platforms i.e. Windows, Linux, MacOS are passing conda-forge/staged-recipes#14387 🚀

[desilinguist]

Fantastic! Thank you @kumaraditya303!

[fcollonval]

@kumaraditya303 I saw you decided to close the conda-forge PR. Do you still have plan to publish a conda package? If you don't want to publish it on conda-forge, may I suggest you publish the package on a conda channel you are controlling as plotly does (see https://plotly.com/python/getting-started/#Installation and their channel).