Playwright Scraper
Pricing
Pay per usage
Playwright Scraper
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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Pricing
Pay per usage
34
Monthly users
182
Runs succeeded
97%
Response time
3.1 days
Last modified
3 days ago
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.
1# Start Server-Sent Events (SSE) session and keep it running
2curl "https://actors-mcp-server.apify.actor/sse?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>&actors=apify/playwright-scraper"
3
4# Session id example output:
5# event: endpoint
6# data: /message?sessionId=9d820491-38d4-4c7d-bb6a-3b7dc542f1faUsing Playwright Scraper via Model Context Protocol (MCP) server
MCP server lets you use Playwright Scraper within your AI workflows. Send API requests to trigger actions and receive real-time results. Take the received sessionId and use it to communicate with the MCP server. The message starts the Playwright Scraper Actor with the provided input.
1curl -X POST "https://actors-mcp-server.apify.actor/message?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>&session_id=<SESSION_ID>" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
2 "jsonrpc": "2.0",
3 "id": 1,
4 "method": "tools/call",
5 "params": {
6 "arguments": {
7 "startUrls": [
8 {
9 "url": "https://crawlee.dev"
10 }
11 ],
12 "globs": [
13 {
14 "glob": "https://crawlee.dev/*/*"
15 }
16 ],
17 "pseudoUrls": [],
18 "excludes": [
19 {
20 "glob": "/**/*.{png,jpg,jpeg,pdf}"
21 }
22 ],
23 "linkSelector": "a",
24 "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}",
25 "proxyConfiguration": {
26 "useApifyProxy": true
27 },
28 "initialCookies": [],
29 "launcher": "chromium",
30 "waitUntil": "networkidle",
31 "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]",
32 "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]",
33 "customData": {}
34},
35 "name": "apify/playwright-scraper"
36 }
37}'The response should be: Accepted. You should received response via SSE (JSON) as:
1event: message
2data: {
3 "result": {
4 "content": [
5 {
6 "type": "text",
7 "text": "ACTOR_RESPONSE"
8 }
9 ]
10 }
11}Configure local MCP Server via standard input/output for Playwright Scraper
You can connect to the MCP Server using clients like ClaudeDesktop and LibreChat or build your own. The server can run both locally and remotely, giving you full flexibility. Set up the server in the client configuration as follows:
1{
2 "mcpServers": {
3 "actors-mcp-server": {
4 "command": "npx",
5 "args": [
6 "-y",
7 "@apify/actors-mcp-server",
8 "--actors",
9 "apify/playwright-scraper"
10 ],
11 "env": {
12 "APIFY_TOKEN": "<YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
13 }
14 }
15 }
16}You can further access the MCP client through the Tester MCP Client, a chat user interface to interact with the server.
To get started, check out the documentation and example clients. If you are interested in learning more about our MCP server, check out our blog post.
Pricing
Pricing model
Pay per usageThis Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage.
