I tried to install playwright using the command
npm i playwright
But got an error
npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path C:\Users\hpoddar\node_modules\playwright
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /d /s /c node install.js
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\Users\hpoddar\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_logs\2022-07-22T08_07_17_487Z-debug-0.log
2022-07-22T08_07_17_487Z-debug-0.log says
0 verbose cli [
0 verbose cli 'C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe',
0 verbose cli 'C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js',
0 verbose cli 'i',
0 verbose cli 'playwright'
0 verbose cli ]
1 info using [email protected]
2 info using [email protected]
3 timing npm:load:whichnode Completed in 0ms
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22 verbose logfile C:\Users\hpoddar\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_logs\2022-07-22T08_07_17_487Z-debug-0.log
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34 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/playwright 24ms (cache hit)
35 silly placeDep ROOT [email protected] OK for: want: *
36 silly fetch manifest [email protected]
37 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/playwright-core 20ms (cache hit)
38 timing idealTree:#root Completed in 87ms
39 silly placeDep ROOT [email protected] OK for: [email protected] want: 1.24.0
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51 silly audit bulk request { playwright: [ '1.24.0' ], 'playwright-core': [ '1.24.0' ] }
52 timing reifyNode:node_modules/playwright Completed in 58ms
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57 timing build:link:node_modules/playwright-core Completed in 0ms
58 timing build:link:node_modules/playwright Completed in 6ms
59 timing build:link Completed in 6ms
60 info run [email protected] install node_modules/playwright node install.js
61 http fetch POST 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/-/npm/v1/security/advisories/bulk 606ms
62 timing auditReport:getReport Completed in 607ms
63 silly audit report {}
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66 info run [email protected] install { code: 1, signal: null }
67 timing reify:rollback:createSparse Completed in 618ms
68 timing reify:rollback:retireShallow Completed in 0ms
69 timing command:i Completed in 8869ms
70 verbose stack Error: command failed
70 verbose stack at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\@npmcli\promise-spawn\index.js:64:27)
70 verbose stack at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:526:28)
70 verbose stack at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1092:16)
70 verbose stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:302:5)
71 verbose pkgid [email protected]
72 verbose cwd C:\Users\hpoddar
73 verbose Windows_NT 10.0.22000
74 verbose argv "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "i" "playwright"
75 verbose node v16.14.2
76 verbose npm v8.5.0
77 error code 1
78 error path C:\Users\hpoddar\node_modules\playwright
79 error command failed
80 error command C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /d /s /c node install.js
81 verbose exit 1
82 timing npm Completed in 9246ms
83 verbose unfinished npm timer reify 1658477237859
84 verbose unfinished npm timer reify:build 1658477238429
85 verbose unfinished npm timer build 1658477238429
86 verbose unfinished npm timer build:deps 1658477238429
87 verbose unfinished npm timer build:run:install 1658477238436
88 verbose unfinished npm timer build:run:install:node_modules/playwright 1658477238436
89 verbose code 1
CodePudding user response：
You can delete the node_modules folder and the package-lock.json file and try running the command again.
There are two other ways you can install Playwright.
- Using the interactive way as mentioned in the playwright docs
npm init playwright@latest
- Using the sequence of commands (Reference):
npm i -D @playwright/test
# install supported browsers
npx playwright install