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Playwright Scraper

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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.

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You can access the Playwright Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can 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.

1echo '{
2  "startUrls": [
3    {
4      "url": "https://crawlee.dev"
5    }
6  ],
7  "globs": [
8    {
9      "glob": "https://crawlee.dev/*/*"
10    }
11  ],
12  "pseudoUrls": [],
13  "excludes": [
14    {
15      "glob": "/**/*.{png,jpg,jpeg,pdf}"
16    }
17  ],
18  "linkSelector": "a",
19  "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}",
20  "proxyConfiguration": {
21    "useApifyProxy": true
22  },
23  "initialCookies": [],
24  "launcher": "chromium",
25  "waitUntil": "networkidle",
26  "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]",
27  "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]",
28  "customData": {}
29}' |
30apify 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

1npm i -g apify-cli
2apify login

Other API clients include:

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  • 45 days response time

  • Created in Aug 2022

  • Modified 6 months ago