# Playwright MCP Server (ExecuteAutomation)

> A community Playwright MCP server for browser and API automation, screenshots and test generation.

## Facts
- **Category:** [MCP Servers](https://agentsearchengine.app/category/mcp-servers)
- **Type:** MCP server
- **Pricing:** Open source
- **GitHub stars:** 5,653
- **Language:** TypeScript
- **License:** MIT
- **Last repo activity:** 9 months ago (Dec 13, 2025)
- **Official site:** https://executeautomation.github.io/mcp-playwright/
- **Source code:** https://github.com/executeautomation/mcp-playwright
- **Listing on Agent Search Engine:** https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/executeautomation-playwright-mcp
- **Data verified:** September 2026

## Best for
Test engineers who want an assistant to exercise web apps and APIs and draft Playwright tests.

## About Playwright MCP Server (ExecuteAutomation)
ExecuteAutomation's Playwright MCP Server lets LLMs drive a real browser with Playwright: interact with pages, take screenshots, scrape content, execute JavaScript, make API requests and generate test code. Version 1.0.10 added emulation of 143 real device profiles. It is separate from Microsoft's official Playwright MCP.

## Connect to an MCP client
Launch command from the project's README: `npx -y @executeautomation/playwright-mcp-server`

### Claude Code (Run in your terminal)

```shell
claude mcp add executeautomation-playwright-mcp -- npx -y @executeautomation/playwright-mcp-server
```

### Cursor (~/.cursor/mcp.json or .cursor/mcp.json)

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "executeautomation-playwright-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@executeautomation/playwright-mcp-server"]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code (.vscode/mcp.json)

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "executeautomation-playwright-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@executeautomation/playwright-mcp-server"]
    }
  }
}
```

### Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json)

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "executeautomation-playwright-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@executeautomation/playwright-mcp-server"]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex (~/.codex/config.toml)

```toml
[mcp_servers.executeautomation-playwright-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@executeautomation/playwright-mcp-server"]
```

## Alternatives
Playwright MCP Server (ExecuteAutomation) sits in mcp servers. Related tools indexed here:
- [MCP Reference Servers](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/mcp-reference-servers) — The MCP steering group's reference servers: Everything, Fetch, Filesystem, Git, Memory, Sequential Thinking and Time. · Open source · MCP server · 91k★ · TypeScript · MIT AND Apache-2.0 · active today
- [context7](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/context7) — Context7 Platform -- Up-to-date code documentation for LLMs and AI code editors · Open source · MCP server · 62k★ · TypeScript · MIT · active today
- [chrome-devtools-mcp](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/chrome-devtools-mcp) — Chrome DevTools for coding agents · Open source · MCP server · 53k★ · TypeScript · Apache-2.0 · active today
- [Playwright MCP](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/playwright-mcp) — Expose Playwright browser tools to MCP clients using accessibility snapshots. · Open source · MCP server · 37k★ · TypeScript · Apache-2.0 · active 4 days ago
- [github-mcp-server](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/github-mcp-server) — GitHub's official MCP Server · Open source · MCP server · 33k★ · Go · MIT · active today
- [serena](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/serena) — A powerful MCP toolkit for coding, providing semantic retrieval and editing capabilities - the IDE for your agent · Open source · SDK / library · 30k★ · Python · MIT · active today
- [MCP for Blender (blender-mcp)](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/blender-mcp) — Connect Blender to Claude or any LLM client for prompt-driven 3D modelling and scene editing. · Open source · MCP server · 29k★ · Python · MIT · active 2 days ago
- [fastmcp](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/fastmcp) — The fast, Pythonic way to build MCP servers and clients. · Open source · SDK / library · 28k★ · Python · Apache-2.0 · active today

---
Source: [Agent Search Engine](https://agentsearchengine.app) — an independent, hand-curated index of AI agents, MCP servers, and frameworks. Rankings are never sold; sponsored placements are labeled and never numbered. Full directory: https://agentsearchengine.app/llms-full.txt