playwriter

name: playwriter
description: Control the user own Chrome browser via Playwriter extension with Playwright code snippets in a stateful local js sandbox via playwriter cli. Automate web interactions, take screenshots, inspect accessibility trees, debug & profile web applications. Run playwriter skill command to read the complete up to date skill

Quick Start

# Get a session ID first
playwriter session new
# => 1

# Execute code with your session
playwriter -s 1 -e "await page.goto('https://example.com')"
playwriter -s 1 -e "console.log(await accessibilitySnapshot({ page }))"
playwriter -s 1 -e "await page.screenshot({ path: 'shot.png', scale: 'css' })"

If playwriter is not found, use npx playwriter@latest or bunx playwriter@latest.

Full Documentation

Always run playwriter skill to get the complete, up-to-date skill instructions.

The skill command outputs detailed docs on:
- Session management
- Context variables (state, page, context)
- Best practices and rules
- Accessibility snapshots and screenshots
- Selector strategies
- Working with pages, navigation, popups, downloads
- Utility functions (getCleanHTML, getCDPSession, createDebugger, etc.)
- Network interception for API scraping
- And more...

playwriter skill