
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.
4.3 (7)
Pricing
Pay per usage
31
Monthly users
134
Runs succeeded
98%
Response time
13 days
Last modified
10 months 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.
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" }],
10 "globs": [{ "glob": "https://crawlee.dev/*/*" }],
11 "pseudoUrls": [],
12 "excludes": [{ "glob": "/**/*.{png,jpg,jpeg,pdf}" }],
13 "linkSelector": "a",
14 "pageFunction": """async function pageFunction(context) {
15 const { page, request, log } = context;
16 const title = await page.title();
17 log.info(`URL: ${request.url} TITLE: ${title}`);
18 return {
19 url: request.url,
20 title
21 };
22}""",
23 "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
24 "initialCookies": [],
25 "launcher": "chromium",
26 "waitUntil": "networkidle",
27 "preNavigationHooks": """// We need to return array of (possibly async) functions here.
28// The functions accept two arguments: the \"crawlingContext\" object
29// and \"gotoOptions\".
30[
31 async (crawlingContext, gotoOptions) => {
32 const { page } = crawlingContext;
33 // ...
34 },
35]""",
36 "postNavigationHooks": """// We need to return array of (possibly async) functions here.
37// The functions accept a single argument: the \"crawlingContext\" object.
38[
39 async (crawlingContext) => {
40 const { page } = crawlingContext;
41 // ...
42 },
43]""",
44 "customData": {},
45}
46
47# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
48run = client.actor("apify/playwright-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
49
50# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
51print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
52for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
53 print(item)
54
55# 📚 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
Other API clients include:
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.