# scrapy-plugins/scrapy-playwright

🎭 Playwright integration for Scrapy

Repository: https://github.com/scrapy-plugins/scrapy-playwright
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/scrapy-playwright
Language: Python
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Topics: playwright, playwright-python, scrapy, python, python3, python-asyncio, javascript-renderer, headless-browser, chrome-headless, firefox-headless, webkit-headless, hacktoberfest
Last push: 2026-07-23T16:38:45+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 86/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 94, release rhythm 68, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2122, "days_push": 41, "days_rel": 54, "gap_med": 125.0, "n_releases_24m": 7}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1439, forks 158 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:44.021292+00:00)

## What it is
A Scrapy download handler that uses Playwright for Python to fetch pages, enabling scraping of JavaScript-rendered sites while keeping the normal Scrapy workflow. It supports Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit via asyncio integration.

## Use cases
- scrape javascript-rendered pages with scrapy
- render dynamic content in a scrapy spider
- use playwright browser automation inside scrapy
- crawl single-page applications with scrapy
- handle pages that require js execution while scraping

## When to choose
- you already use Scrapy and need JavaScript rendering
- you want browser automation without leaving Scrapy's scheduling and item pipeline
- you need multiple browser engines (Chromium, Firefox, WebKit)

## When to avoid
- you need a standalone scraper without Scrapy
- simple static HTML scraping where plain Scrapy requests suffice
- non-Python or non-asyncio project setups

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: web-scraping, http-client, browser-extension
- domain: crawlers, web-development
- platform: python, cli, cross-platform
- tags: scrapy, playwright, headless-browser, javascript-rendering, download-handler, asyncio, automation

## Member repositories
- scrapy-plugins/scrapy-playwright (main) score 86

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:44.021292+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:36:37.361928+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/scrapy-plugins/scrapy-playwright (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:44.021292+00:00, sha 0416fe407955)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/scrapy-playwright/json (fetched 2026-08-29T11:47:04.399362+00:00, sha 12e580b89f26)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.