diff --git a/packages/playwright-crawler/src/internals/playwright-crawler.ts b/packages/playwright-crawler/src/internals/playwright-crawler.ts
index 686f540c3d06..48fcaa118c6a 100644
--- a/packages/playwright-crawler/src/internals/playwright-crawler.ts
+++ b/packages/playwright-crawler/src/internals/playwright-crawler.ts
@@ -8,10 +8,10 @@ import type {
     RouterRoutes,
 } from '@crawlee/browser';
 import { BrowserCrawler, Configuration, Router } from '@crawlee/browser';
-import type { BrowserPoolOptions, PlaywrightController, PlaywrightPlugin } from '@crawlee/browser-pool';
+import type { BrowserPoolOptions, CommonPage, PlaywrightController, PlaywrightPlugin } from '@crawlee/browser-pool';
 import type { Dictionary } from '@crawlee/types';
 import ow from 'ow';
-import type { LaunchOptions, Page, Response } from 'playwright';
+import type { Download, LaunchOptions, Page, Response } from 'playwright';
 
 import type { PlaywrightLaunchContext } from './playwright-launcher';
 import { PlaywrightLauncher } from './playwright-launcher';
@@ -238,6 +238,17 @@ export class PlaywrightCrawler extends BrowserCrawler<
         super({ ...browserCrawlerOptions, launchContext, browserPoolOptions }, config);
     }
 
+    protected override _enhanceCrawlingContextWithPageInfo(
+        crawlingContext: PlaywrightCrawlingContext,
+        page: CommonPage,
+        createNewSession?: boolean,
+    ): void {
+        super._enhanceCrawlingContextWithPageInfo(crawlingContext, page, createNewSession);
+        const downloads: Download[] = [];
+        (page as Page).on('download', (download) => downloads.push(download));
+        crawlingContext.listDownloads = async () => downloads;
+    }
+
     protected override async _runRequestHandler(context: PlaywrightCrawlingContext) {
         registerUtilsToContext(context, this.options);
         await super._runRequestHandler(context);
diff --git a/packages/playwright-crawler/src/internals/utils/playwright-utils.ts b/packages/playwright-crawler/src/internals/utils/playwright-utils.ts
index 774785bd99ad..6bd4f6873cf2 100644
--- a/packages/playwright-crawler/src/internals/utils/playwright-utils.ts
+++ b/packages/playwright-crawler/src/internals/utils/playwright-utils.ts
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ import type { BatchAddRequestsResult } from '@crawlee/types';
 import { type CheerioRoot, type Dictionary, expandShadowRoots, sleep } from '@crawlee/utils';
 import * as cheerio from 'cheerio';
 import ow from 'ow';
-import type { Page, Response, Route } from 'playwright';
+import type { Download, Page, Response, Route } from 'playwright';
 
 import { LruCache } from '@apify/datastructures';
 import log_ from '@apify/log';
@@ -1065,6 +1065,30 @@ export interface PlaywrightContextUtils {
      * @param [options]
      */
     handleCloudflareChallenge(options?: HandleCloudflareChallengeOptions): Promise<void>;
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the list of {@link https://playwright.dev/docs/api/class-download | Download} objects
+     * collected during the current page navigation and request handler.
+     *
+     * Useful for accessing files that the page downloads automatically.
+     * For most use cases, prefer re-enqueueing the URL to {@apilink FileDownload}.
+     * Use this only when direct access to the Playwright `Download` object is required.
+     *
+     * **Example usage**
+     * ```ts
+     * requestHandler: async ({ listDownloads }) => {
+     *     for (const download of await listDownloads()) {
+     *         try {
+     *             const stream = await download.createReadStream();
+     *             // stream to storage...
+     *         } catch {
+     *             // download failed or was cancelled
+     *         }
+     *     }
+     * },
+     * ```
+     */
+    listDownloads(): Promise<Download[]>;
 }
 
 export function registerUtilsToContext(
diff --git a/test/core/crawlers/playwright_crawler.test.ts b/test/core/crawlers/playwright_crawler.test.ts
index f381062eebec..2acf7a91ced7 100644
--- a/test/core/crawlers/playwright_crawler.test.ts
+++ b/test/core/crawlers/playwright_crawler.test.ts
@@ -41,6 +41,16 @@ describe('PlaywrightCrawler', () => {
             res.send(`<html><head><title>Example Domain</title></head></html>`);
             res.status(200);
         });
+        app.get('/page-with-download', (_req, res) => {
+            res.status(200).send(
+                `<html><body><a id="download-link" href="/download-file" download="hello.txt">download</a></body></html>`,
+            );
+        });
+        app.get('/download-file', (_req, res) => {
+            res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/plain');
+            res.setHeader('Content-Disposition', 'attachment; filename="hello.txt"');
+            res.send('hello');
+        });
     });
 
     beforeAll(async () => {
@@ -207,6 +217,34 @@ describe('PlaywrightCrawler', () => {
         expect(reducedMotion).toBe(launchOptions.reducedMotion);
     });
 
+    test('exposes triggered downloads via listDownloads()', async () => {
+        let countBefore = -1;
+        let countAfter = -1;
+        let suggestedFilename: string | undefined;
+
+        const playwrightCrawler = new PlaywrightCrawler({
+            maxRequestRetries: 0,
+            maxConcurrency: 1,
+            requestHandler: async ({ page, listDownloads }) => {
+                countBefore = (await listDownloads()).length;
+
+                const downloadPromise = page.waitForEvent('download');
+                await page.click('a#download-link');
+                await downloadPromise;
+
+                const downloads = await listDownloads();
+                countAfter = downloads.length;
+                suggestedFilename = downloads[0]?.suggestedFilename();
+            },
+        });
+
+        await playwrightCrawler.run([`http://${HOSTNAME}:${port}/page-with-download`]);
+
+        expect(countBefore).toBe(0);
+        expect(countAfter).toBe(1);
+        expect(suggestedFilename).toBe('hello.txt');
+    });
+
     test('should have correct types in crawling context', async () => {
         const requestHandler = async (crawlingContext: PlaywrightCrawlingContext) => {
             // Checking that types are correct