I had never heard of this, but it looks like a reasonable option. My go-to for this type of thing would be Python+Selenium+Firefox, but only due to familiarity with those.
I'm glad that I'm not the only one not using Selenium for its stated purpose.
Is there another - stated purpose - that I missed?
Primarily it is for automating web applications for testing purposes
Here was I thinking it was just a tool to scrape all the js I am too lazy to reverse engineer.
Playwright is easy to get started with. The even tools that allow you to record your browser actions and covert it into code ( https://playwright.dev/ ).