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Configuration not automatically loaded from playwright-cli.json #269
Description
I have a file playwright-cli.json in my working directory that's as follows:
{
"network": {
"allowedOrigins": [
"lvh.me",
"localhost",
"0.0.0.0",
"127.0.0.1",
"pdf-service"
]
}
}The README suggests this will be automatically read if no extra args are specified:
The Playwright CLI can be configured using a JSON configuration file. You can specify the configuration file using the --config command line option:
playwright-cli --config path/to/config.json open example.com
Playwright CLI will load config from playwright-cli.json by default so that you did not need to specify it every time.
However, I'm not seeing the behaviour I expect (the request is blocked) unless I specify the filename to use:
simonfish@local freeagent % playwright-cli open https://simon.fish
### Browser `default` opened with pid 93381.
- default:
- browser-type: chrome
- user-data-dir: <in-memory>
- headed: false
---
### Ran Playwright code
```js
await page.goto('https://simon.fish');
\```
### Page
- Page URL: https://simon.fish/
- Page Title: Engineering and educating for a free and open web - Simon Fish
### Snapshot
- [Snapshot](.playwright-cli/page-2026-02-18T16-56-40-883Z.yml)
simonfish@local freeagent % playwright-cli --config playwright-cli.json open https://simon.fish
### Browser `default` opened with pid 93999.
- default:
- browser-type: chrome
- user-data-dir: <in-memory>
- headed: false
---
### Error
Error: page.goto: net::ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT at https://simon.fish/
Call log:
- navigating to "https://simon.fish/", waiting until "domcontentloaded"
simonfish@local freeagent % playwright-cli open https://simon.fish
### Browser `default` opened with pid 94167.
- default:
- browser-type: chrome
- user-data-dir: <in-memory>
- headed: false
---
### Ran Playwright code
```js
await page.goto('https://simon.fish');
\```
### Page
- Page URL: https://simon.fish/
- Page Title: Engineering and educating for a free and open web - Simon Fish
### Snapshot
- [Snapshot](.playwright-cli/page-2026-02-18T16-58-18-155Z.yml)
Activity
pavelfeldman commentedon Feb 18, 2026
There was a breaking change a while ago that moved it into .playwright/cli.json a while ago. Sorry about that.
finalburn commentedon Feb 19, 2026
I opened a PR to update it in the README, but moving the config file to that folder has the same results – that host is still reachable when it otherwise wouldn't be if the config is referenced directly as of
1.59.0-alpha-1771104257000:finalburn commentedon Feb 19, 2026
Turns out (from reviewing the source) it's
.playwright/cli.config.json. #272 updates the README to that effect.