[Bug] not getting all DEBUG=pw:api calls into the Logger

I am sometimes using the awesome DEBUG=pw:api to see what happens during a failure (in combination with the awesome video recording and/or inspector). All great tools.

But I would want to run my tests in CI and get the logs shown by DEBUG=pw:api into the Logger. Something like:

const { chromium } = require('playwright');  // Or 'firefox' or 'webkit'.

(async () => {
  const browser = await chromium.launch({
    debug: ['pw:api']
    logger: {
      isEnabled: (name, severity) => name === 'browser',
      log: (name, severity, message, args) => console.log(`${name} ${message}`)
    }
  });
  ...
})();

I do not want to just set DEBUG=pw:api to print to stdout but I want these specific logs only sent to the Logger so I can save it in a file during my runs. It is a great tool combined with a video, to see when something fails.

[dwalleck]

Bumping this because I would like to see if this could be improved. My team’s scenario is that they would like to log to a file or other logging sinks using something like winston. The only workaround I’ve found is to redirect output to a file like DEBUG=pw:api npx playwright test &> playwright-api.log

[pavelfeldman]

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