Playwright
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Provides browser automation capabilities using Playwright. Interact with web pages, take screenshots, and execute JavaScript in a real browser environment.
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- Author
- automata-labs-team
- Categories
- Web Scraping, Automation, Developer Tools
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Setup
Install Playwright in your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, and others).
Repository: https://github.com/automata-labs-team/MCP-Server-Playwright
Follow the installation instructions in the repository README, then restart your MCP client.
A Model Context Protocol server that provides browser automation capabilities using Playwright
Enable LLMs to interact with web pages, take screenshots, and execute JavaScript in a real browser environment
- Features
- Installation
- Configuration
- Components
- 🌐 Full browser automation capabilities
- 📸 Screenshot capture of entire pages or specific elements
- 🖱️ Comprehensive web interaction (navigation, clicking, form filling)
- 📊 Console log monitoring
- 🔧 JavaScript execution in browser context
To install MCP Server Playwright for Claude Desktop automatically viaSmithery:
npx -y @smithery/cli install @automatalabs/mcp-server-playwright --client claude
You can install the package using either npx or mcp-get:
npx @automatalabs/mcp-server-playwright install
- Check your operating system compatibility (Windows/macOS)
- Create or update the Claude configuration file
- Configure the Playwright server integration
The configuration file will be automatically created/updated at:
- Windows:%APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
- macOS:~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
npx @michaellatman/mcp-get@latest install @automatalabs/mcp-server-playwright
The installation process will automatically add the following configuration to your Claude config file:
{ "mcpServers": { "playwright": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "@automatalabs/mcp-server-playwright"] } } }
You can also use MCP Server Playwright withCursor, an AI-powered code editor. To enable browser automation in Cursor via MCP:
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Install Playwright browsers(if not already):
Install MCP Server Playwright for Cursorusing Smithery:
npx -y @smithery/cli install @automatalabs/mcp-server-playwright --client cursor
Configuration file setup:
If you do not use Claude, the configuration file (claude_desktop_config.json) may not be created automatically.
- On Windows, create a folder namedClaudein%APPDATA%(usuallyC:\Users\<YourName>\AppData\Roaming\Claude).
- Inside that folder, create a file namedclaude_desktop_config.jsonwith the following content:
Follow the remaining steps in theInstallationsection aboveto complete the setup.
Now, you can use all the browser automation tools provided by MCP Server Playwright directly from Cursor’s AI features, such as web navigation, screenshot capture, and JavaScript execution.
Note:Make sure you have Node.js installed andnpxavailable in your system PATH.
{ "url": "https://stealthbrowser.cloud" }
Capture screenshots of the entire page or specific elements
{ "name": "screenshot-name", // required "selector": "#element-id", // optional "fullPage": true // optional, default: false }
Click elements on the page using CSS selector
{ "selector": "#button-id" }
Click elements on the page by their text content
{ "text": "Click me" }
Hover over elements on the page using CSS selector
{ "selector": "#menu-item" }
Hover over elements on the page by their text content
{ "text": "Hover me" }
{ "selector": "#input-field", "value": "Hello World" }
Select an option in a SELECT element using CSS selector
{ "selector": "#dropdown", "value": "option-value" }
Select an option in a SELECT element by its text content
{ "text": "Choose me", "value": "option-value" }
Execute JavaScript in the browser console
{ "script": "document.title" }
- Access browser console output in text format
- Includes all console messages from the browser
- Access PNG images of captured screenshots
- Referenced by the name specified during capture
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see theLICENSEfile for details.
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