playwright-archive-mcp
MCP server that drives a headless or interactive Playwright browser and records every HTTP request/response into a shared web-archive store, making captured traffic searchable.
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playwright-archive-mcp
MCP server that drives a headless or interactive Playwright browser and records every HTTP request/response into the shared web-archive store (entry type request), making captured traffic searchable via unified-history-mcp.
Part of the Palimpsest investigative toolkit. The archive write-path and SSRF URL validation come from the shared web-archive-store.
Tools
| Tool | Description |
|---|---|
playwright_record(urls, wait, timeout, ...) |
Batch: drive a headless browser against URL(s), record all HTTP traffic |
playwright_start |
Start a persistent interactive session with always-on recording |
playwright_navigate / playwright_click / playwright_fill |
Drive the interactive session |
playwright_text / playwright_html / playwright_screenshot |
Read page content / save a screenshot |
playwright_back / playwright_forward / playwright_stats / playwright_close |
Session control |
Auth headers are redacted by default; binary/streaming bodies are skipped. Recorded entries become searchable once the web-archive rebuild tool runs.
Install
playwright-archive-mcp depends on web-archive-store — install it first:
git clone https://github.com/palimpsest-labs/web-archive-store
cd web-archive-store
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e .
cd ..
git clone https://github.com/palimpsest-labs/playwright-archive-mcp
cd playwright-archive-mcp
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e .
playwright install chromium # downloads the browser binary
Once web-archive-store is published to PyPI this becomes a single pip install -e ..
CLI
A standalone recorder CLI is available both as a console script and a direct-run script (the latter works from a fresh clone if the sibling web-archive-store checkout is present):
playwright-archive https://example.com https://example.org
# or
python playwright_archive.py https://example.com
Tests
pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest
The suite is browser-free (pure logic + validation paths), so it runs without playwright install chromium.
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