Playwright
Official Microsoft Playwright MCP server. Browser automation tools (navigate, click, fill, screenshot, evaluate JS, network capture) backed by Playwright. 31,942 stars, 35 commits/30d, Apache-2.0.
“Official Microsoft Playwright MCP server: browser automation, navigation, form filling, screenshots, and JS evaluation through the Playwright protocol. 31,942 GitHub stars, 35 commits on main in the last 30 days. Apache-2.0.”
INSTALL THIS SERVER
{
"mcpServers": {
"playwright": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@playwright/mcp@latest"
]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"playwright": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@playwright/mcp@latest"
]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"playwright": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@playwright/mcp@latest"
]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"playwright": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@playwright/mcp@latest"
]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"playwright": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@playwright/mcp@latest"
]
}
}
}
11 TOOLS AVAILABLE
OUR ASSESSMENT
- Official Microsoft maintenance (formerly attributed to Anthropic in error).
- 31,942 GitHub stars and Apache-2.0 licence.
- 35 commits on main in the last 30 days.
- Structured accessibility tree extraction reduces token overhead vs screenshot-only flows.
- Headless Chromium with configurable viewport.
- Multi-step navigation with state persistence.
- Screenshot capture for visual verification.
- Chromium download required on first run (~200MB).
- Heavy for simple URL fetching (use Firecrawl for read-only scraping).
- Stored URL was previously incorrect (pointed at anthropics/anthropic-quickstarts); corrected at audit (2026-05-03).
Runs a local headless browser. Sandboxed by default. Use a dedicated browser profile to isolate agent sessions from your personal browsing data.
Agents that need to interact with web pages, fill forms, or capture screenshots
TECHNICAL DETAILS
ADOPTION METRICS
// Reading this31,942 stars on the microsoft/playwright-mcp repo. 35 commits on main in the last 30 days. Stored value previously inflated via incorrect attribution to anthropics/anthropic-quickstarts; corrected at audit (2026-05-03).
// Reading thisBrowser automation is a core agent workflow. Downloads spike when new Playwright versions ship with improved headless mode.
// Reading this#2 in Dev Tools (behind GitHub). Globally #4 reflects the universal demand for browser automation.
SOURCES & VERIFICATION
We don't take any single directory's word for it. Before scoring, we cross-reference 3 public MCP sources, install the server ourselves against the clients we cover, and record when we last re-verified.
The same server, 3 different lenses. We reconcile these signals into our editorial score, which is why our number sometimes diverges from a directory-aggregate star count.
| Source | Their rating | Their star count | Their downloads | Last synced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AutomationSwitch This page | 4.7editorial | 31,942 | 32.6K / wk | MAY 3, 2026 |
| Official MCP Registry | — unrated | 2,400 | unavailable | APR 12, 2026 |
| PulseMCP | 4.4 community | 2,380 | 28.3K / wk | APR 21, 2026 |
| Smithery | 4.5 installs | 2,400 | 31.7K installs | APR 20, 2026 |
// Counts are directory-reported; we don't adjust them. Discrepancies usually come from different snapshot times or star-caching.
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