diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 6cb25d52b..804ff4359 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ gitignore-parser==0.1.9
 websockets~=12.0
 networkx~=3.2.1
 google-generativeai==0.3.2
-# playwright==1.40.0  # playwright extras require
+playwright>=1.26 # used at metagpt/tools/libs/web_scraping.py
 anytree
 ipywidgets==8.1.1
 Pillow
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b16d978cf..be3956ea4 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ requirements = (here / "requirements.txt").read_text(encoding="utf-8").splitline
 
 
 extras_require = {
-    "playwright": ["playwright>=1.26", "beautifulsoup4"],
     "selenium": ["selenium>4", "webdriver_manager", "beautifulsoup4"],
     "search-google": ["google-api-python-client==2.94.0"],
     "search-ddg": ["duckduckgo-search~=4.1.1"],