MCP-Server-Playwright

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Installation
Configuration
Components
- Tools
- Resources
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Features

🌐 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

Installation

Installing via Smithery

To install MCP Server Playwright for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:

npx -y @smithery/cli install @automatalabs/mcp-server-playwright --client claude

You can install the package using either npx or mcp-get:

Using npx:

npx @automatalabs/mcp-server-playwright install

This command will:

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

Using mcp-get:

npx @michaellatman/mcp-get@latest install @automatalabs/mcp-server-playwright

Configuration

The installation process will automatically add the following configuration to your Claude config file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "playwright": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@automatalabs/mcp-server-playwright"]
    }
  }
}

Components

Tools

`browser_navigate`

Navigate to any URL in the browser

{
  "url": "https://stealthbrowser.cloud"
}

`browser_screenshot`

Capture screenshots of the entire page or specific elements

{
  "name": "screenshot-name",     // required
  "selector": "#element-id",     // optional
  "fullPage": true              // optional, default: false
}

`browser_click`

Click elements on the page using CSS selector

{
  "selector": "#button-id"
}

`browser_click_text`

Click elements on the page by their text content

{
  "text": "Click me"
}

`browser_hover`

Hover over elements on the page using CSS selector

{
  "selector": "#menu-item"
}

`browser_hover_text`

Hover over elements on the page by their text content

{
  "text": "Hover me"
}

`browser_fill`

Fill out input fields

{
  "selector": "#input-field",
  "value": "Hello World"
}

`browser_select`

Select an option in a SELECT element using CSS selector

{
  "selector": "#dropdown",
  "value": "option-value"
}

`browser_select_text`

Select an option in a SELECT element by its text content

{
  "text": "Choose me",
  "value": "option-value"
}

`browser_evaluate`

Execute JavaScript in the browser console

{
  "script": "document.title"
}

Resources

Console Logs (console://logs)
- Access browser console output in text format
- Includes all console messages from the browser
Screenshots (screenshot://<n>)
- Access PNG images of captured screenshots
- Referenced by the name specified during capture

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

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local-only server

The server can only run on the client's local machine because it depends on local resources.

Tools

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Enables LLMs to interact with web pages, take screenshots, and execute JavaScript in a real browser environment

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Table of Contents

Features

Installation

Installing via Smithery

Configuration

Components

Tools

`browser_navigate`

`browser_screenshot`

`browser_click`

`browser_click_text`

`browser_hover`

`browser_hover_text`

`browser_fill`

`browser_select`

`browser_select_text`

`browser_evaluate`

Resources

License

Tools

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