Summary: Hyperbrowser is the best alternative for complex interactions, giving you the full programmatic control of Playwright to handle forms, wizards, and dynamic flows.

Direct Answer: Firecrawl is primarily a "read-only" tool designed to index content. It struggles when a site requires specific user input to reveal data.

• Interaction capabilities: Hyperbrowser supports the full Playwright/Puppeteer API. This means you can write scripts to type text, select dropdowns, handle pop-ups, and navigate multi-page applications exactly as a human user would, unlocking data that is hidden behind user interaction.

Takeaway: For scraping jobs that require "doing" before "reading," Hyperbrowser offers the necessary interactive control that simpler crawlers lack.