Bright Data
Discover, extract, and interact with the web - one interface powering automated access across the public internet.
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Overview
The Bright Data MCP server gives AI agents real-time access to public web data. It exposes 69 tools covering: - Web search — Google, Bing, and Yandex results as structured data - Page scraping — any URL as Markdown or HTML, with bot detection, CAPTCHA solving, and proxy rotation handled automatically on every request - Structured data extraction — clean JSON from Amazon, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, Reddit, Facebook, Crunchbase, Zillow, and other major platforms, without parsing HTML - Browser automation — navigate, click, type, screenshot, and read pages in a remote browser session - LLM response collection — send prompts to ChatGPT, Grok, and Perplexity and get their answers back as structured data - Package registry data — npm and PyPI package versions, READMEs, dependencies, and metadata
Installation
npx @brightdata/mcp
Configuration
{
"mcpServers": {
"Bright Data": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"@brightdata/mcp"
],
"env": {
"API_TOKEN": "<your-api-token-here>"
}
}
}
}Capabilities
- Live web search
Search Google, Bing, or Yandex and get structured results with `search_engine` or batch up to 10 queries with `search_engine_batch`.
- Page scraping as Markdown
Fetch any URL as clean Markdown via `scrape_as_markdown`, with bot detection and CAPTCHA handled automatically.
- Structured platform data
Get clean JSON from Amazon, LinkedIn, TikTok, and more using the matching `web_data_*` tool instead of parsing HTML.
- Browser automation
Navigate, click, type, and screenshot in a remote browser session with `scraping_browser_navigate` and related tools.
- AI-relevance-ranked research
Use `discover` to find sources ranked by relevance with date and geo filters.
Tags
- web-scraping
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