Configure Playwright to avoid browser notifications (such as "this page wants to know your location")

Question

I'm using Playwright to analyze data from a remote site. However, at the first call to

page.goto(URL)    # Initial URL

the server pops up a panel, as far as I can tell before any Javascript runs:

So far, the only solution I've found is to manually dismiss it. This is less than ideal since it means I can't run Playwright in headless mode.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

You can use the launchOption configuration to disable the prompt.

module.exports = {
//other playwright related configuration
  use: {
        // Browser options
        browserName: 'chromium',
        channel: 'chrome',
        headless: false,
        launchOptions: { args: ['--deny-permission-prompts'] }, //use this option to disable the prompt
       
        actionTimeout: 30 * 1000,
        navigationTimeout: 90 * 1000,
    },
}
`