playwright-python VS Visual Studio Code

TikTok uses quite a lot of JavaScript on its site, both for displaying content and for analyzing user behavior, including detecting and blocking crawlers. Therefore, for crawling TikTok, we'll use a headless browser with Playwright.

Integrating Ollama, Microsoft vision models and Playwright I've made a simple agent that can browse websites and data to answer your query.

Do you have to use Curl? It wouldn't render a lot of sites correctly anyway (anything that uses JS for rendering).

Can you run a puppeteer/playwright instance and add an ad blocker to that? e.g. https://github.com/ghostery/adblocker or https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-python/issues/782

Playwright

An alternative is to use a package like playwright (or Selenium) to run a browser remotely and login.

Using the tools at hand is often the best approach. That said, I've spent most of the last 13 years of my career automating browsers. For years, I used Selenium with a variety of libraries. After switching to Puppeteer/Playwright, I have zero interest in going back lol. Playwright actually has first party Python support. (Puppeteer has a port called Pyppeteer, but it's no longer maintained and the author recommends using Playwright)

https://playwright.dev/python/

This is pretty great for web automation https://playwright.dev/python/

If there’s a king of free dev tools, it’s still VS Code. Microsoft’s lightweight yet ridiculously powerful editor has become the default choice for developers across languages and frameworks.

If you’re a web developer in 2025 and not using VS Code, you’re missing out. Microsoft’s free editor has become the standard thanks to its:

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An IDE for a comfortable coding experience, either Visual Studio Code or PyCharm.

2. Visual Studio Code – Cross-Platform Code Editor

Just look at open issues, sorted by most thumbs up:

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20st...

One that I am interested in is tree sitter syntax highlighting support: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/50140

There is a ton of things that could be done. The fact that you haven't personally needed more features doesn't mean it's "feature complete". Not even close.

Before we start: Mailtrap MCP server is implemented as a Node.js command line utility, so please install the latest Node.js version alongside the freshest version of VS Code editor.

2. Visual Studio Code(VS Code)

Code editor of your choice - I use Visual Studio Code but anything you're comfortable with works fine.