Gaffa vs Playwriter

Gaffa is a powerful web data extraction and browser automation platform designed to eliminate the technical headaches of traditional web scraping. It provides a simple REST API that gives developers, data analysts, and businesses instant access to reliable, scalable web data. The core problem Gaffa solves is infrastructure complexity. Instead of wrestling with headless browsers, proxy management, scaling challenges, and configuration failures, users send a single API call. Gaffa handles the rest, executing commands on real, fully-rendering browsers and returning the processed data. This allows teams to focus entirely on their data-driven goals—like market research, price monitoring, or lead generation—without becoming experts in browser automation frameworks. With built-in features like global residential proxies, data processing into multiple formats (HTML, markdown, JSON), and full observability with session recording, Gaffa offers a complete, production-ready solution for accessing the web at scale.

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.