These are live smoke tests that run against deployed URLs and external services. They are NOT hermetic — they make real network requests to the WikiTree API, CORS proxy, and GitHub raw URLs.

Running

npm run test:probers

This uses the separate playwright.prober.config.ts configuration, which does not start a local dev server. Each spec navigates to a full absolute URL (or localhost:8080 for the Docker prober).

What They Test

Spec	Target	Exercises
`gh-pages-gedcom.spec.ts`	`pewu.github.io`	GitHub Pages deployment, CORS proxy, GEDCOM-from-URL
`wikitree.spec.ts`	`apps.wikitree.com`	WikiTree direct API, WikiTree deployment
`wikitree-cors-gedcom.spec.ts`	`apps.wikitree.com`	WikiTree deployment, CORS proxy via GEDCOM-from-URL
`docker.spec.ts`	`localhost:8080`	Published Docker image from GHCR

Notes

Probers run sequentially (fullyParallel: false) to avoid rate-limiting.
Each prober has its own GitHub Actions workflow for independent triggering.
Probers do not block Google Analytics, so live runs generate real analytics events.