Comprehensive MCP server for browser automation with 38 powerful Playwright tools
Comprehensive MCP server for browser automation with 38 powerful Playwright tools. That is what the playmcp mcp server brings to an AI assistant: the same capability, reachable through the Model Context Protocol rather than a separate app or dashboard.
A comprehensive MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for browser automation using Playwright. This server provides 38 powerful tools for web scraping, testing, and automation.
playwright on npm is all you need. Most clients run it directly, so configuration is a few lines and a restart.
The server publishes 14 tools. What each one is for:
Navigation — navigate, goForward, goBack (via scroll)Interaction — click, type, hover, dragAndDrop, selectOptionKeyboard — pressKeyWaiting — waitForText, waitForSelectorScreenshots — screenshot, takeScreenshot (enhanced)Forms — getFormsopenBrowser — Launch browser instancenavigate — Navigate to URLclick — Click elementtype — Type text into elementmoveMouse — Move mouse to coordinatesscroll — Scroll page with feedbackThis sits in the browser automation group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. PlayMCP's toolset — Navigation, Interaction, Keyboard and 11 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by jomon003; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Navigation | navigate, goForward, goBack (via scroll) |
| Interaction | click, type, hover, dragAndDrop, selectOption |
| Keyboard | pressKey |
| Waiting | waitForText, waitForSelector |
| Screenshots | screenshot, takeScreenshot (enhanced) |
| Forms | getForms |
| openBrowser | Launch browser instance |
| navigate | Navigate to URL |
| click | Click element |
| type | Type text into element |
| moveMouse | Move mouse to coordinates |
| scroll | Scroll page with feedback |
| screenshot | Take screenshot |
| getPageSource | Get HTML source |
{
"mcpServers": {
"playmcp-browser": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "node",
"args": ["/Users/username/PlayMCP/dist/server.js"],
"description": "Browser automation with Playwright"
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
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