What's the recommended way to select an element by text in Playwright?

The searches are returning matcher code rather than locator selection methods. Based on the repository data provided and the README excerpt shown, I can give you a general answer:

Based on the Playwright repository, the recommended way to select elements by text is through locator methods. While the specific getByText() method implementation isn't shown in the provided code chunks, the repository demonstrates the use of getByRole() in the README example:

In the README excerpt, you can see:

await page.getByRole('link', { name: 'Get started' }).click();

This shows that Playwright provides role-based selection using the name option, which matches text content. The name parameter allows you to select elements by their accessible name (which includes visible text).

For direct text matching, Playwright typically provides a getByText() or filter() method on locators, though the specific implementation details aren't visible in the code chunks provided. The matchers like toHaveText() [packages/playwright/src/matchers/matchers.ts:L392-L410] show that text matching is a core feature, but they're used for assertions rather than selection.

To give you more precise details about text selection methods, I'd need to search the locator API definitions directly.