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playwright-server MCP server

playwright-server MCP server

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github.com/blackwhite084Browser Automation188Updated 94w ago

About playwright-server MCP server

playwright-server is a Python MCP server that provides Playwright browser automation tools, along with a simple note resource store and a summary prompt. It suits developers who want an MCP client to navigate pages, click, fill inputs and take screenshots. The README leaves configuration details as a placeholder.

Key features

  1. 01Page navigation with automatic session creation
  2. 02Full-page or element screenshots
  3. 03Click and fill by CSS selector
  4. 04Click elements by visible text
  5. 05Run JavaScript and read page content

Use cases

  1. 01Letting an MCP client open a page and capture screenshots
  2. 02Filling forms and clicking buttons through CSS selectors
  3. 03Reading page text or HTML to support analysis

MCP support

This project is an MCP server that exposes Playwright browser tools such as playwright_navigate, playwright_click and playwright_screenshot, plus note:// resources and a summarize-notes prompt.

Configuration

Local server config is the same for every client. Copy it into your client’s MCP config file.

No install method listed yet

We haven’t collected a package or remote endpoint for this server. Follow the instructions in the project README.

Repository

Tools

No tool list yet

Local servers expose tools only once running on your machine, and the maintainer has not provided a tool list.

Details

From the project README

playwright-server MCP server

\A MCP server with playwright tools\

Playwright Server MCP server

Components

Resources

The server implements a simple note storage system with:

  • Custom note:// URI scheme for accessing individual notes
  • Each note resource has a name, description and text/plain mimetype
Prompts

The server provides a single prompt:

  • summarize-notes: Creates summaries of all stored notes
    • Optional "style" argument to control detail level (brief/detailed)
    • Generates prompt combining all current notes with style preference
Tools

The server implements the following tools:

  • playwright_navigate: Navigates to a specified URL. This operation will automatically create a new session if there is no active session.
    • Requires a url argument (string).
  • playwright_screenshot: Takes a screenshot of the current page or a specific element.
    • Requires a name argument (string) for the screenshot file name.
    • Optional selector argument (string) to specify a CSS selector for the element to screenshot. If no selector is provided, a full-page screenshot is taken.
  • playwright_click: Clicks an element on the page using a CSS selector.
    • Requires a selector argument (string) to specify the CSS selector for the element to click.
  • playwright_fill: Fills out an input field.
    • Requires a selector argument (string) to specify the CSS selector for the input field.
    • Requires a value argument (string) to specify the value to fill.
  • playwright_evaluate: Executes JavaScript code in the browser console.
    • Requires a script argument (string) to specify the JavaScript code to execute.
  • playwright_click_text: Clicks an element on the page by its text content.
    • Requires a text argument (string) to specify the text content of the element to click.
  • playwright_get_text_content: Get the text content of all visiable elements.
  • playwright_get_html_content: Get the HTML content of the page.
    • Requires a selector argument (string) to specify the CSS selector for the element.

Configuration

[TODO: Add configuration details specific to your implementation]

Quickstart

Install
Claude Desktop

On MacOS: ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json On Windows: %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

Development/Unpublished Servers Configuration ``` "mcpServers": { "playwright-server": { "command": "uv", "args": [ "--directory", "C:\Users\xxxxx\Documents\project\python\mcp\playwright-server", "run", "playwright-server" ] } } ```
Published Servers Configuration ``` "mcpServers": { "playwright-server": { "command": "uvx", "args": [ "playwright-server" ] } } ```

Development

Building and Publishing

To prepare the package for distribution:

  1. Sync dependencies and update lockfile:
uv sync
  1. Build package distributions:
uv build

This will create source and wheel distributions in the dist/ directory.

  1. Publish to PyPI:
uv publish

Note: You'll need to set PyPI credentials via environment variables or command flags:

  • Token: --token or UV_PUBLISH_TOKEN
  • Or username/password: --username/UV_PUBLISH_USERNAME and --password/UV_PUBLISH_PASSWORD
Debugging

Since MCP servers run over stdio, debugging can be challenging. For the best debugging experience, we strongly recommend using the MCP Inspector.

You can launch the MCP Inspector via npm with this command:

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uv --directory C:\Users\YUNYING\Documents\project\python\mcp\playwright-server run playwright-server

Upon launching, the Inspector will display a URL that you can access in your browser to begin debugging.

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