Setup & Installation
openclaw skills install @spiceman161/playwright-browser-automation
Or with the ClawHub CLI, for registry-managed skill folders outside a full OpenClaw workspace:
npx clawhub install playwright-browser-automation
What This Skill Does
Direct Playwright API for browser automation across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit. Handles navigation, form interaction, data extraction, screenshots, PDF generation, and video recording. No MCP layer required.
Direct API access avoids MCP overhead and gives predictable automation with built-in auto-waiting and retry logic on element interactions.
When to use it
- Scraping product prices from e-commerce sites
- Automating login and form submission workflows
- Taking full-page screenshots for visual regression testing
- Recording video walkthroughs of web app interactions
- Extracting table data from paginated web reports
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 e-commerce site
AGENT
- 1Launch Chromium in headless mode
- 2Navigate to the target URL and wait for page content to load
- 3Evaluate the DOM to extract product titles and prices into an array
- 4Click the next page button and repeat extraction until no further pages exist
- 5Return collected data as a structured JSON array
OUTPUT
JSON array of product names and prices from all paginated pages