Web Scraping
Smart Web Scraping with Playwright and AI: Accessibility Trees (AOM) & Vision
How AI vision models and browser automation tools transform fragile CSS selectors into self-healing, intelligent scraping pipelines.
3 min
Self-Healing Selectors with Accessibility Trees
Traditional scrapers break whenever target sites rename CSS classes. By parsing the browser's Accessibility Object Model (AOM) or passing screenshots to multimodal LLMs, agents identify elements by semantic meaning rather than brittle markup.
scraper.py
import asyncio
from playwright.async_api import async_playwright
async def scrape():
async with async_playwright() as p:
browser = await p.chromium.launch(headless=True)
page = await browser.new_page()
await page.goto("https://example.com/products")
title = await page.title()
print(f"Page Loaded: {title}")
await browser.close()
asyncio.run(scrape())