open a playwright ci trace.zip artifact in the hosted trace viewer without downloading it locally

domain: playwright.dev · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps

  1. configure trace: 'retain-on-failure' (or 'on-first-retry') in playwright.config so a trace.zip is produced only for failing tests
  2. upload the trace.zip as a CI build artifact and get a stable, publicly or authenticated-accessible URL to it
  3. navigate to trace.playwright.dev and either drag-and-drop the file or append it as a query parameter, e.g. https://trace.playwright.dev/?trace=<url-to-trace.zip>
  4. inspect the timeline, DOM snapshots, network, and console panels directly in the browser without installing Playwright locally
  5. confirm the artifact host sends permissive CORS headers, since the hosted viewer fetches the remote file client-side

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