firecrawl/apps/playwright-service-ts

Playwright Scrape API

This is a simple web scraping service built with Express and Playwright.

Features

• Scrapes HTML content from specified URLs.
• Blocks requests to known ad-serving domains.
• Blocks media files to reduce bandwidth usage.
• Uses random user-agent strings to avoid detection.
• Strategy to ensure the page is fully rendered.

Install

npm install
npx playwright install

RUN

npm run build
npm start

OR

npm run dev

USE

curl -X POST http://localhost:3000/scrape \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "wait_after_load": 1000,
  "timeout": 15000,
  "headers": {
    "Custom-Header": "value"
  },
  "check_selector": "#content"
}'

USING WITH FIRECRAWL

Add PLAYWRIGHT_MICROSERVICE_URL=http://localhost:3003/scrape to /apps/api/.env to configure the API to use this Playwright microservice for scraping operations.