What it does for you
Lets your AI actually drive a real browser — click, fill forms, screenshot, and scrape JS-rendered pages, including sites behind login.
Capabilities
- Open pages, click / type / submit
- Screenshot and read rendered page content
- Handle JS-rendered dynamic sites
- Multi-step browser automation
Once installed, try asking your AI
Say this directly in Claude / Cursor or any client with this server connected
- ›“Open this product page and tell me the price and stock status”
- ›“Fill out the signup form on this site and screenshot the confirmation”
Works with these clients
- Claude Desktopnpx
- Claude Codenpx
- Cursornpx
- VS Codenpx
- Windsurfnpx
Derived from the registry manifest (package type and transport) — we have not installed it ourselves. Check the official README before relying on it.
Install / Connect
claude mcp add mcp -- npx -y @playwright/mcpFollow the official README; env and args vary per server.
🛠️ Maintenance weight 30% · 64 pts
📊 Adoption weight 25% · 92 pts
✅ Usability weight 20% · 55 pts
❤️ Health & community weight 25% · 91 pts
Sources: GitHub API · npm registry · updated 2026-07-30
90-day trend
⭐ stars +1%
📦 weekly downloads +4%
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- Bulk-scrape static sites to Markdown / feed a knowledge base→Pick Firecrawl — easiest for whole-site crawl and extraction
- Want scaled, cloud-hosted browsers→Pick Browserbase / Hyperbrowser — cloud sessions
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