Playwright Scraper

Pricing

Pay per usage

Try for free

Go to Apify Store

Playwright Scraper

Try for free

Developed by

Apify

Maintained by Apify

Crawls websites with the headless Chromium, Chrome, or Firefox browser and Playwright library using a provided server-side Node.js code. Supports both recursive crawling and a list of URLs. Supports login to a website.

4.7 (8)

Pricing

Pay per usage

3.4K

333

Issues response

5.8 days

Last modified

2 months ago

Developer tools

Open source

You can access the Playwright Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

$echo '{
<  "startUrls": [
<    {
<      "url": "https://crawlee.dev/js"
<    }
<  ],
<  "globs": [
<    {
<      "glob": "https://crawlee.dev/js/*/*"
<    }
<  ],
<  "pseudoUrls": [],
<  "excludes": [
<    {
<      "glob": "/**/*.{png,jpg,jpeg,pdf}"
<    }
<  ],
<  "linkSelector": "a",
<  "respectRobotsTxtFile": true,
<  "pageFunction": "async function pageFunction(context) {\\n    const { page, request, log } = context;\\n    const title = await page.title();\\n    log.info(`URL: ${request.url} TITLE: ${title}`);\\n    return {\\n        url: request.url,\\n        title\\n    };\\n}",
<  "proxyConfiguration": {
<    "useApifyProxy": true
<  },
<  "initialCookies": [],
<  "launcher": "chromium",
<  "waitUntil": "networkidle",
<  "preNavigationHooks": "// We need to return array of (possibly async) functions here.\\n// The functions accept two arguments: the \\"crawlingContext\\" object\\n// and \\"gotoOptions\\".\\n[\\n    async (crawlingContext, gotoOptions) => {\\n        const { page } = crawlingContext;\\n        // ...\\n    },\\n]",
<  "postNavigationHooks": "// We need to return array of (possibly async) functions here.\\n// The functions accept a single argument: the \\"crawlingContext\\" object.\\n[\\n    async (crawlingContext) => {\\n        const { page } = crawlingContext;\\n        // ...\\n    },\\n]",
<  "customData": {}
<}' |
<apify call apify/playwright-scraper --silent --output-dataset

Playwright Scraper API through CLI

The Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use Playwright Scraper locally, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the Apify CLI

$npm i -g apify-cli
$apify login

Other API clients include:

Playwright Scraper API in Python

Playwright Scraper API in JavaScript

Playwright Scraper OpenAPI definition

Playwright Scraper API

Puppeteer Scraper

apify/puppeteer-scraper

Crawls websites with the headless Chrome and Puppeteer library using a provided server-side Node.js code. This crawler is an alternative to apify/web-scraper that gives you finer control over the process. Supports both recursive crawling and list of URLs. Supports login to website.

Apify

9.8K

5.0

Cheerio Scraper

apify/cheerio-scraper

Crawls websites using raw HTTP requests, parses the HTML with the Cheerio library, and extracts data from the pages using a Node.js code. Supports both recursive crawling and lists of URLs. This actor is a high-performance alternative to apify/web-scraper for websites that do not require JavaScript.

Apify

11K

4.9

Web Scraper

apify/web-scraper

Crawls arbitrary websites using a web browser and extracts structured data from web pages using a provided JavaScript function. The Actor supports both recursive crawling and lists of URLs, and automatically manages concurrency for maximum performance.

Apify

94K

4.0

Vanilla JS Scraper

mstephen190/vanilla-js-scraper

Scrape the web using familiar JavaScript methods! Crawls websites using raw HTTP requests, parses the HTML with the JSDOM package, and extracts data from the pages using Node.js code. Supports both recursive crawling and lists of URLs. This actor is a non jQuery alternative to CheerioScraper.

Matthias Stephens

496

Playwright Test Runner

jindrich.bar/playwright-test

Run Playwright tests across numerous browser configurations with Apify. Create your tests in seconds and get comprehensive test reports faster than ever.

Jindřich Bär

Example Code Runner (Playwright)

apify/example-code-runner-playwright

Generic Actor to run code examples from the documentation via "Run on Apify" links.

Apify

1.8K

4.6

Selenium Custom Firefox POC

jancurn/selenium-custom-firefox

Uses Selenium to run custom build of Firefox that is harder to detect. The actor just saves a screenshot and snapshot of the HTML.

Jan Čurn

Camoufox Scraper

apify/camoufox-scraper

Crawls websites with stealthy Camoufox browser and Playwright library using a provided server-side Node.js code. Supports both recursive crawling and a list of URLs. Supports login to a website.

Apify

Example Puppeteer

apify/example-puppeteer

Example showing how to use headless Chromium with Puppeteer to open a web page, determine its dimensions, save a screenshot, and print the page to PDF. This actor must use images with Puppeteer (Node.js 8 + Puppeteer on Debian).

Apify

285

4.6