Using Firefox browser with Playwright crawler
This example demonstrates how to use PlaywrightCrawler
with headless Firefox browser.
tip
To run this example on the Apify Platform, select the apify/actor-node-playwright-firefox
image for your Dockerfile.
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import { PlaywrightCrawler } from 'crawlee';
import { firefox } from 'playwright';
// Create an instance of the PlaywrightCrawler class.
const crawler = new PlaywrightCrawler({
launchContext: {
// Set the Firefox browser to be used by the crawler.
// If launcher option is not specified here,
// default Chromium browser will be used.
launcher: firefox,
},
async requestHandler({ request, page, log }) {
const pageTitle = await page.title();
log.info(`URL: ${request.loadedUrl} | Page title: ${pageTitle}`);
},
});
await crawler.addRequests(['https://example.com']);
// Run the crawler and wait for it to finish.
await crawler.run();
To see a real-world example of how to use PlaywrightCrawler
in combination with RequestQueue
to recursively scrape the Hacker News website check out the Playwright crawler example
.