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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

1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
5const client = new ApifyClient({
6    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
7});
8
9// Prepare Actor input
10const input = {
11    "startUrls": [
12        {
13            "url": "https://crawlee.dev/js"
14        }
15    ],
16    "globs": [
17        {
18            "glob": "https://crawlee.dev/js/*/*"
19        }
20    ],
21    "pseudoUrls": [],
22    "excludes": [
23        {
24            "glob": "/**/*.{png,jpg,jpeg,pdf}"
25        }
26    ],
27    "linkSelector": "a",
28    "respectRobotsTxtFile": true,
29    "pageFunction": async function pageFunction(context) {
30        const { page, request, log } = context;
31        const title = await page.title();
32        log.info(`URL: ${request.url} TITLE: ${title}`);
33        return {
34            url: request.url,
35            title
36        };
37    },
38    "proxyConfiguration": {
39        "useApifyProxy": true
40    },
41    "initialCookies": [],
42    "launcher": "chromium",
43    "waitUntil": "networkidle",
44    "preNavigationHooks": `// We need to return array of (possibly async) functions here.
45        // The functions accept two arguments: the "crawlingContext" object
46        // and "gotoOptions".
47        [
48            async (crawlingContext, gotoOptions) => {
49                const { page } = crawlingContext;
50                // ...
51            },
52        ]`,
53    "postNavigationHooks": `// We need to return array of (possibly async) functions here.
54        // The functions accept a single argument: the "crawlingContext" object.
55        [
56            async (crawlingContext) => {
57                const { page } = crawlingContext;
58                // ...
59            },
60        ]`,
61    "customData": {}
62};
63
64// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
65const run = await client.actor("apify/playwright-scraper").call(input);
66
67// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
68console.log('Results from dataset');
69console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
70const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
71items.forEach((item) => {
72    console.dir(item);
73});
74
75// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

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The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use Playwright Scraper API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

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