Head to head
playwright-mcp vs web-scraping
Same numbers we show everywhere else, lined up. Ratings come from users, the grade comes from our scanner, adoption comes from public registries.
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Web scraping for AI agents: scrape, search, crawl, map any website to markdown + JSON. No browser.
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Neither has been reviewed yet, so the comparison rests on the scan and the public usage numbers. Both score close on the safety scan (94 and 98 out of 100). web-scraping is hosted and callable through the gateway; playwright-mcp runs on your own machine. playwright-mcp has noticeably more public adoption.
| playwright-mcp | web-scraping | |
|---|---|---|
| User rating | No reviews yet | No reviews yet |
| Safety grade | A94/100 | A98/100 |
| Adoption | Widely used | Growing |
| GitHub stars | 37k | 1 |
| Downloads / week | 6.0M | – |
| Runs where | Your machine (local) | Hosted (remote) |
| Gateway-ready | No | Yes |
| Tools | — | — |
| Write actions | — | — |
| Price per call | Free | Free |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Last release | 2026-09-18 | 2026-09-18 |
| Category | Scraping and browsing | Scraping and browsing |