Importing playwright fails with "DLL load failed while importing _greenlet"

Question

Why does this error appear in the playwright file?

ImportError: DLL load failed while importing _greenlet: The specified module could not be found.

Here is my code:

from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright

with sync_playwright() as p:
    browser = p.chrome.launch()
    page = browser.new_page()
    page.goto("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK_5SQPq6nY&list=PLYDwWPRvXB8_W56h2C1z5zrlnAlvqpJ6A&index=1")
    page.screenshot(path="demo.png")
    browser.close()

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 15 '23 at 16:53

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It seems to be an issue of missing dependecies brought on by a version change.

I was able to get it working by installing msvc-runtime.

pip install msvc-runtime

You may need to install it in your general libraries and not inside of a virtualenv.

answered Mar 15 '23 at 16:53

gloomyfit

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Installing in a virtualenv also solved the importing issue in my case. Thank you! – 체라치에 May 16 '23 at 03:24

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 17 '23 at 06:22

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The issue is from greenlet version, change greenlet version to 1.1.2. I have changed and it workes

answered May 17 '23 at 06:22

Hrayr

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Importing playwright fails with "DLL load failed while importing _greenlet"

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