playwright-scraper

This skill enables web scraping using Playwright, a Node.js library for browser automation. It focuses on handling dynamic content, authentication flows, pagination, data extraction, and screenshots to reliably scrape modern websites. Use this skill for scraping sites with JavaScript-rendered content (e.g., React or Angular apps), sites requiring login (e.g., dashboards), handling multi-page results (e.g., search results), or capturing visual data (e.g., screenshots for verification). Avoid for static HTML sites where simpler tools like requests suffice. Always initialize a browser context first, then create pages for navigation. Use async patterns for reliability. For authenticated scraping, handle cookies or sessions per context. Structure scripts to loop through pages for pagination and use try-catch for flaky elements.