feat: add chrome BrowserType for PlaywrightCrawler to use the Chrome browser #1487
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| ValueError, match=r'Cannot use `use_chrome` with `Configuration.default_browser_path` or `executable_path` set.' | ||
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| PlaywrightBrowserPlugin( | ||
| browser_type='chromium', |
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To me, this seems a little strange from the user perspective. It is defining one type of browser in one argument and then overriding it in another argument, which is valid only for a specific value of the first argument. I would prefer to just add browser_type=chrome and connect any logic to such a specific browser_type internally.
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Since browser_type in Crawlee is a parameter that directly corresponds to a similar parameter in Playwright, I think adding a new option to it will confuse users familiar with Playwright.
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I think that users familiar with Playwright are probably OK with the current state of defining channel in browser_launch_options - as that is the Playwright way of using Chrome and offers the best flexibility without us needing to change anything.
Experienced Playwright users aside, when considering anyone else, I think it is not a very intuitive way to select Chrome with this change.
Just consider the following snippets:
To use Firefox:
PlaywrightCrawler(browser_type="firefox")
But to use Chrome
PlaywrightCrawler(browser_type="chromium", use_chrome=True)
I think that most users would expect just this instead:
PlaywrightCrawler(browser_type="chrome")
Anyway, I do not have a very strong opinion about this, but I would suggest introducing new arguments only if we see big improvements in readability, which I do not think is the case now.
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Maybe @vdusek, @janbuchar have some ideas about which approach would be best to choose?
Mantisus changed the title use_chrome to use the Chrome browserchrome BrowserType for PlaywrightCrawler to use the Chrome browser 
Co-authored-by: Vlada Dusek <v.dusek96@gmail.com>
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