MCP server for web scraping and converting web pages to Markdown with Playwright support
MCP server for web scraping and converting web pages to Markdown with Playwright support. That is what the webscraper mcp server brings to an AI assistant: the same capability, reachable through the Model Context Protocol rather than a separate app or dashboard.
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides advanced web scraping and HTML to Markdown conversion using Microsoft Playwright. This version automatically detects and handles JavaScript-rendered pages.
playwright on npm is all you need. Most clients run it directly, so configuration is a few lines and a restart.
The server publishes 2 tools. What each one is for:
Building — The Building tool exposed by this serverTesting — The Testing tool exposed by this serverThis 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. Webscraper's toolset — Building, Testing — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by luquinhasbrito; 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We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.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 |
|---|---|
| Building | The Building tool exposed by this server. |
| Testing | The Testing tool exposed by this server. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"webscraper": {
"command": "node",
"args": ["/path/to/webscraper-mcp-server-v2/dist/index.js"]
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
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