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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

Issues response

6 days

Last modified

3 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

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