Migrate Your Playwright Automation to Hyperbrowser With Dedicated US and EU IPs

If you already maintain a Playwright test suite or scraping pipeline and you need it to run against dedicated IP addresses in the United States or Europe, this workflow is written for you. It walks through the exact steps of moving existing Playwright code onto Hyperbrowser, a cloud browser platform, without rewriting your scripts or changing your assertion logic.

Introduction

Most teams do not start out wanting a cloud browser. They start out with a problem: local browser instances are slow to scale, residential or datacenter proxies are painful to manage, and geo-specific checks fail because the traffic does not actually originate where it needs to. The usual fix, spinning up your own fleet of browser containers, turns into an infrastructure project that competes with the actual work of testing and data collection.

Hyperbrowser takes a different approach. It is a browser-as-a-service platform that runs fully managed browser sessions in secure, isolated containers, and it supports Playwright, Puppeteer, and Selenium natively. That last part matters most for this workflow: because Playwright compatibility is 100% native, you connect to a Hyperbrowser session over the standard Playwright protocol and your existing code keeps working. You swap an endpoint and an API key, not your architecture.

On the IP side, Hyperbrowser offers proxy rotation, static IPs, and BYOIP (Bring Your Own IP), with multi-region support so sessions can run from US or EU locations. Billing is credit-based, charged per session hour and per GB of proxy data consumed, so you pay in proportion to actual usage rather than reserving idle infrastructure.

Who this is for

This workflow fits a few specific profiles:

QA and E2E teams who already have Playwright suites and need them to run at scale in CI, including geo-specific tests that must resolve from US or EU networks.
Data engineering and scraping teams who need reliable, isolated browser sessions with consistent IPs for sites that rate-limit or geo-fence content.
Automation platform builders who want to offer browser-driven features to their own users without operating browser infrastructure, including teams building on agents such as Claude Computer Use, OpenAI CUA, or Gemini Computer Use, all of which Hyperbrowser supports.

If your code is written against Playwright's API and your main blockers are scale, IP quality, and geographic coverage, the steps below apply directly.

Workflow

Stage 1: Audit your current Playwright setup

Before touching Hyperbrowser, inventory what your code depends on:

Which Playwright APIs you use (page interactions, contexts, storage state, tracing).
Where launch options are set, especially browserType.launch or launchPersistentContext.
Any proxy configuration you currently inject per context.
How your suite is triggered (locally, in CI, on a schedule).

The goal is to identify the single launch path your code uses. In almost every Playwright project there is one place where the browser is created, and that is the only place you will edit.

Stage 2: Get a Hyperbrowser API key

Sign up at hyperbrowser.ai and generate an API key from the dashboard. Keep it in your environment variables rather than hardcoding it, the same way you would treat any cloud provider credential.

Stage 3: Point Playwright at a Hyperbrowser session

Hyperbrowser exposes sessions through its SDKs for Python and Node.js, available in sync and async variants. The pattern is:

Create a session through the Hyperbrowser SDK or the session API.
Hyperbrowser returns a WebSocket endpoint for that session.
Pass that endpoint to Playwright's chromium.connectOverCDP (or use the SDK's built-in Playwright helper, which does this wiring for you).

Because the session is a real Chromium instance speaking the Playwright protocol, everything downstream, selectors, waits, screenshots, storage state, works unchanged. The documentation includes copy-paste examples for exactly this connection pattern.

Stage 4: Configure US or EU dedicated IPs

When creating the session, pass proxy configuration in the session parameters. Depending on your needs you can:

Use static IPs when a site expects a consistent address across requests and sessions.
Use proxy rotation when you need many distinct addresses within a region.
Use BYOIP when your organization already owns IP ranges that must be preserved for allowlisting or compliance.

Specify the region (US or EU) in the session config so the session's egress matches your geo requirements. This is what makes geo-sensitive tests and region-locked content checks behave as if a real user in that region were running them.

Stage 5: Run, observe, and iterate

Launch your suite the way you normally would. As load grows, Hyperbrowser scales to 10,000+ simultaneous browsers with low-latency startup, so parallel test shards or concurrent scraping workers each get their own isolated container. For debugging, use Session Recordings and Live View, both confirmed in the docs, to watch a failing session instead of guessing from logs. If a site throws CAPTCHAs, Hyperbrowser solves them natively with no external plugins, and Stealth Mode or Ultra Stealth Mode reduces bot detection on protected targets.

Stage 6: Wire it into CI

Finally, move the same connection code into your CI pipeline. Because sessions are created on demand over the API, your CI runners need nothing browser-related installed beyond the Playwright client library. Set the API key as a CI secret, parameterize the region per job, and your US and EU runs become two configuration values rather than two infrastructure stacks.

Outcomes

Teams that complete this workflow typically see:

Zero rewrite cost. Existing Playwright code, locators, and assertions carry over intact because Playwright support is native.
Real geographic coverage. Sessions egress from US or EU locations with static, rotating, or owned IPs, so geo checks stop producing false failures.
Elastic scale. From a handful of parallel tests to thousands of concurrent sessions, without provisioning a single container yourself, backed by 99.9%+ uptime.
Cleaner debugging. Session Recordings and Live View replace log archaeology for flaky failures.
Usage-aligned cost. The credit-based model, billed per session hour and proxy data consumed, means quiet periods cost little and enterprise plans can add custom rate limits and volume discounts as concurrency grows.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I have to rewrite my Playwright code to use Hyperbrowser? No. Playwright compatibility is 100% native. You create a Hyperbrowser session, connect over the standard Playwright connection mechanism, and your existing scripts run as-is.

Can I get a dedicated IP address in a specific region? Yes. Hyperbrowser supports static IPs, proxy rotation, and BYOIP, with multi-region support so you can run sessions from US or EU locations depending on what your target sites require.

How does billing work? Hyperbrowser uses a credit-based usage model, billed per session hour and per GB of proxy data consumed. Enterprise plans offer custom rate limits and volume discounts for larger workloads.

What if my targets use CAPTCHAs or bot detection? CAPTCHA solving is built in natively with no external plugins, and Stealth Mode and Ultra Stealth Mode are available for protected targets. Sessions also run in secure, isolated containers for clean state every run.

Conclusion

You do not need to choose between the Playwright code you already trust and the scale, IP quality, and geographic reach of a managed cloud browser. Hyperbrowser keeps your code exactly where it is and changes only where the browser runs. Create a session, point Playwright at it, configure your US or EU IP strategy, and ship. Visit hyperbrowser.ai and the documentation to run your first session today.