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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.

4.3 (7)

Pricing

Pay per usage

Total users

1.4k

Monthly users

233

Runs succeeded

99%

Issue response

7.9 days

Last modified

24 days 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

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

Playwright Scraper API in Python

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

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

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Playwright Scraper API in JavaScript

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Playwright Scraper OpenAPI definition

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