# Playwright CLI
Playwright comes with the command line tools that run via `npx` or as a part of the `npm` scripts.
## Usage
```sh
$ npx playwright --help
```
Running from `package.json` script
```json
{
"scripts": {
"help": "playwright --help"
}
}
```
## Generate code
```sh
$ npx playwright codegen wikipedia.org
```
Run `codegen` and perform actions in the browser. Playwright CLI will generate JavaScript code for the user interactions. `codegen` will attempt to generate resilient text-based selectors.
## Open pages
With `open`, you can use Playwright bundled browsers to browse web pages. Playwright provides cross-platform WebKit builds that can be used to reproduce Safari rendering across Windows, Linux and macOS.
```sh
# Open page in Chromium
npx playwright open example.com
```
```sh
# Open page in WebKit
npx playwright wk example.com
```
### Emulate devices
`open` can emulate mobile and tablet devices ([see all devices](https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/blob/master/src/server/deviceDescriptors.ts)).
```sh
# Emulate iPhone 11.
npx playwright --device="iPhone 11" open wikipedia.org
```
### Emulate color scheme and viewport size
```sh
# Emulate screen size and color scheme.
npx playwright --viewport-size=800,600 --color-scheme=dark open twitter.com
```
### Emulate geolocation, language and timezone
```sh
# Emulate timezone, language & location
# Once page opens, click the "my location" button to see geolocation in action
npx playwright --timezone="Europe/Rome" --geolocation="41.890221,12.492348" --lang="it-IT" open maps.google.com
```
## Inspect selectors
During `open` or `codegen`, you can use following API inside the developer tools console of any browser.
#### playwright.$(selector)
Query Playwright selector, using the actual Playwright query engine, for example:
```js
> playwright.$('.auth-form >> text=Log in');
```
#### playwright.$$(selector)
Same as `playwright.$`, but returns all matching elements.
```js
> playwright.$$('li >> text=John')
> [