Setup & Installation
openclaw skills install @manikantasai1987/manikantasai-playwright-automation
Or with the ClawHub CLI, for registry-managed skill folders outside a full OpenClaw workspace:
npx clawhub install manikantasai-playwright-automation
What This Skill Does
Browser automation using the Playwright API directly. Supports navigating websites, interacting with page elements, extracting data, taking screenshots, generating PDFs, and recording videos.
Direct API use avoids the overhead and reliability issues of MCP-based browser automation.
When to use it
- Scraping product prices from e-commerce sites
- Automating login and form submission flows
- Capturing full-page screenshots for visual regression
- Generating PDF reports from web dashboards
- Recording browser sessions for QA documentation
Example Workflow
Here's how your AI assistant might use this skill in practice.
INPUT
User asks: extract all product names and prices from a paginated table
AGENT
- 1Launch a headless Chromium browser
- 2Navigate to the target URL and wait for the table to load
- 3Use page.$$eval to iterate table rows and extract text from each cell
- 4Handle pagination by clicking the next button and repeating extraction
- 5Aggregate results and return as structured data
OUTPUT
Array of objects with name and price fields for each product row