Gaffa vs Playwriter

Tired of the endless battle with anti-bot systems, proxy management, and brittle scraping scripts? Gaffa is here to change the game. It's a powerful, developer-friendly API designed to make browser automation and web scraping simple, reliable, and scalable again. Think of Gaffa as your dedicated automation team, handling all the messy infrastructure details so you can focus on what matters: the data. With a single REST API call, you can instruct Gaffa to perform complex actions like navigating, clicking, scrolling, and filling forms using real browsers that mimic natural human behavior. This allows you to access data from even the most stubborn, JavaScript-heavy websites. Gaffa delivers the results in your preferred format, whether that's raw HTML, clean and structured markdown (perfect for feeding into LLMs), parsed JSON, or even screenshots. Built for developers, data scientists, and businesses that need consistent, large-scale access to web data without the operational headaches, Gaffa's core promise is to turn the complexity of web automation into a simple, dependable API that just works, letting you stop fighting for data and start using it.

AI agents cannot browse the web properly. They either have no browser access, or they get a fresh Chrome with no logins, no extensions, and instant bot detection. Playwriter gives them your actual browser session instead. One Chrome extension, full automation API, everything you are already logged into. Includes accessibility snapshots (5-20KB instead of 100KB+ screenshots), a debugger with breakpoints, live code editing, network interception, and video recording. Works with any MCP client: Cursor, Claude, VS Code, and more. Open source, MIT licensed.