Agent Web Scraper vs Playwright
Side-by-side comparison of two Model Context Protocol servers. Pick the right one for Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or Cursor.
Web scraping MCP server for Al agents. 6 tools: extract clean text/markdown from any URL, structured scraping with CSS selectors, full-page screenshots via Play
Browser automation, scraping, screenshots
Comparison
| Feature | Agent Web Scraper | Playwright |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free | Free |
| Installs | — | 4 |
| Rating | — | — |
| Verified | — | |
| Hosted | — | — |
| Tools | — | 5 |
| Category | browse | browse |
| Author | aparajithn | Microsoft |
| Repo | aparajithn/agent-scraper-mcp | microsoft/playwright-mcp |
When to pick Agent Web Scraper
Web scraping MCP server for Al agents. 6 tools: extract clean text/markdown from any URL, structured scraping with CSS selectors, full-page screenshots via Playwright, link extraction with regex filtering, metadata extraction (OG tags, Twitter cards), and Google search. Free tier: 50 requests/IP/day.
When to pick Playwright
Let Claude drive a real browser. Fill forms, take screenshots, scrape data, reproduce bugs — all headful or headless.
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