brightdata-mcp

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<h1>The Web MCP</h1>

<p> <strong>🌐 Give your AI real-time web superpowers</strong><br/> <i>Seamlessly connect LLMs to the live web without getting blocked</i> </p>

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<p> <a href="#-quick-start">Quick Start</a> • <a href="#-features">Features</a> • <a href="#-pricing--modes">Pricing</a> • <a href="#-demos">Demos</a> • <a href="#-documentation">Docs</a> • <a href="#-support">Support</a> </p>

<div> <h3>🎉 <strong>Free Tier Available!</strong> 🎉</h3> <p><strong>5,000 credits/month FREE</strong> <br/> _{No credit card required · Auto-renews monthly · Perfect for prototyping and everyday AI workflows}</p> </div> </div>

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<div align="center"> <h3>NEW: Code Tool group - Your Coding Agent's Best Friend</h3> <p><strong>Instant access to npm and PyPI package data, right from your AI agent.</strong></p> <p> Need the latest version of a package? Want to read its README without leaving your workflow?<br/> The <b>Code</b> tool group gives coding agents structured, reliable package metadata on demand —<br/> no scraping, no stale caches, just the data your agent needs to make smart dependency decisions. </p> <table> <tr> <td align="center"><b>npm</b><br/>_{Package versions, READMEs, metadata &amp; dependencies}</td> <td align="center"><b>PyPI</b><br/>_{Python package info, versions &amp; project details}</td> </tr> </table> <p><code>GROUPS="code"</code> &nbsp;·&nbsp; The go-to tool for Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf &amp; any MCP-powered coding agent</p> </div>

<div align="center"> <h3>GEO & AI Brand Visibility Tools</h3> <p><strong>See how ChatGPT, Grok, and Perplexity talk about your brand.</strong></p> <p> Query leading LLMs directly from your agent and get back structured, markdown-formatted answers.<br/> The ultimate feedback loop for <b>Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)</b> — monitor AI-generated recommendations, track brand mentions across LLMs, and understand how AI perceives your products. </p> <table> <tr> <td align="center"><b>ChatGPT</b><br/>_{AI-generated insights, citations &amp; recommendations}</td> <td align="center"><b>Grok</b><br/>_{Real-time AI analysis powered by X data}</td> <td align="center"><b>Perplexity</b><br/>_{Search-augmented AI answers with sources}</td> </tr> </table> <p><code>GROUPS="geo"</code> &nbsp;·&nbsp; Works with any MCP-compatible agent</p> </div>

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🌟 Overview

The Web MCP is your gateway to giving AI assistants true web capabilities. No more outdated responses, no more "I can't access real-time information" - just seamless, reliable web access that actually works.

Built by Bright Data, the world's #1 web data platform, this MCP server ensures your AI never gets blocked, rate-limited, or served CAPTCHAs.

<div align="center"> <table> <tr> <td align="center">✅ <strong>Works with Any LLM</strong><br/>_{Claude, GPT, Gemini, Llama}</td> <td align="center">🛡️ <strong>Never Gets Blocked</strong><br/>_{Enterprise-grade unblocking}</td> <td align="center">🚀 <strong>5,000 Free Credits</strong><br/>_{Monthly · No card needed}</td> <td align="center">⚡ <strong>Zero Config</strong><br/>_{Works out of the box}</td> </tr> </table> </div>

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🎯 Perfect For

• 🔍 Real-time Research - Get current prices, news, and live data
• 🛍️ E-commerce Intelligence - Monitor products, prices, and availability
• 📊 Market Analysis - Track competitors and industry trends
• 🤖 AI Agents - Build agents that can actually browse the web
• 💻 Coding Agents - Look up npm/PyPI packages, versions, and READMEs in real time
• 🧠 GEO & Brand Visibility - See how ChatGPT, Grok, and Perplexity perceive your brand
• 📝 Content Creation - Access up-to-date information for writing
• 🎓 Academic Research - Gather data from multiple sources efficiently

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⚡ Quick Start

Use the configuration wizard:

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<summary><b>📡 Use our hosted server - No installation needed!</b></summary>

Perfect for users who want zero setup. Just add this URL to your MCP client:

https://mcp.brightdata.com/mcp?token=YOUR_API_TOKEN_HERE

Setup in Claude Desktop:

1. Go to: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector
2. Name: Bright Data Web
3. URL: https://mcp.brightdata.com/mcp?token=YOUR_API_TOKEN
4. Click "Add" and you're done! ✨

<summary><b>Run locally on your machine</b></summary>

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "Bright Data": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["@brightdata/mcp"],
      "env": {
        "API_TOKEN": "<your-api-token-here>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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🚀 Pricing & Modes

<div align="center"> <table> <tr> <th width="33%">⚡ Rapid Mode (Free tier)</th> <th width="33%">💎 Pro Mode</th> <th width="34%">🔧 Custom Mode</th> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"> <h3>$0/month</h3> <p><strong>5,000 credits</strong></p> <hr/> <p>✅ Web Search<br/> ✅ Scraping with Web unlocker<br/> ✅ AI-ranked Discover search<br/> ❌ Browser Automation<br/> ❌ Web data tools</p> <br/> <code>Default Mode</code> </td> <td align="center"> <h3>Pay-as-you-go</h3> <p><strong>Everything in rapid plus 60+ tools</strong></p> <hr/> <p>✅ Browser Control<br/> ✅ Web Data APIs<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <code>PRO_MODE=true</code> </td> <td align="center"> <h3>Usage-based</h3> <p><strong>Pick the tools you need</strong></p> <hr/> <p>✅ Combine tool groups<br/> ✅ Add individual tools<br/> ❌ Overrides Pro eligibility</p> <br/> <code>GROUPS="browser"</code><br/> <code>TOOLS="scrape_as_html"</code> </td> </tr> </table> </div>

💡 How the free tier works: Your account gets 5,000 credits/month (~$7.50 value), auto-renewed on the 1st with no credit card required. MCP requests draw from this shared pool — base tools (search_engine, scrape_as_markdown, discover) cost 1 credit per request, while web_data_* tools cost 1 credit per record returned. Unused credits don't roll over, and when they run out requests stop (no surprise charges unless you've deposited funds). Pro mode is not included in the free tier and incurs additional charges based on usage.

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🧠 Advanced Tool Selection

• GROUPS lets you enable curated tool bundles. Use comma-separated group

IDs such as ecommerce,browser.

• TOOLS adds explicit tool names on top of the selected groups.
• Mode priority: PRO_MODE=true (all tools) → GROUPS / TOOLS

(whitelist) → default rapid mode (base toolkit).

• Base tools always enabled: search_engine, search_engine_batch,

scrape_as_markdown, scrape_batch, discover.

• Group ID custom is reserved; use TOOLS for bespoke picks.

<table> <tr> <th align="left">Group ID</th> <th align="left">Description</th> <th align="left">Featured tools</th> </tr> <tr> <td><code>ecommerce</code></td> <td>Retail and marketplace datasets</td> <td><code>web_data_amazon_product</code>, <code>web_data_walmart_product</code>, <code>web_data_google_shopping</code></td> </tr> <tr> <td><code>social</code></td> <td>Social, community, and creator insights</td> <td><code>web_data_linkedin_posts</code>, <code>web_data_tiktok_posts</code>, <code>web_data_youtube_videos</code></td> </tr> <tr> <td><code>browser</code></td> <td>Bright Data Scraping Browser automation tools</td> <td><code>scraping_browser_snapshot</code>, <code>scraping_browser_click_ref</code>, <code>scraping_browser_screenshot</code></td> </tr> <tr> <td><code>finance</code></td> <td>Financial intelligence datasets</td> <td><code>web_data_yahoo_finance_business</code></td> </tr> <tr> <td><code>business</code></td> <td>Company and location intelligence datasets</td> <td><code>web_data_crunchbase_company</code>, <code>web_data_zoominfo_company_profile</code>, <code>web_data_zillow_properties_listing</code></td> </tr> <tr> <td><code>research</code></td> <td>News and developer data feeds</td> <td><code>web_data_github_repository_file</code>, <code>web_data_reuter_news</code></td> </tr> <tr> <td><code>app_stores</code></td> <td>App store data</td> <td><code>web_data_google_play_store</code>, <code>web_data_apple_app_store</code></td> </tr> <tr> <td><code>travel</code></td> <td>Travel information</td> <td><code>web_data_booking_hotel_listings</code></td> </tr> <tr> <td><code>geo</code></td> <td>GEO &amp; LLM brand visibility</td> <td><code>web_data_chatgpt_ai_insights</code>, <code>web_data_grok_ai_insights</code>, <code>web_data_perplexity_ai_insights</code></td> </tr> <tr> <td><code>code</code></td> <td>Package intelligence for coding agents</td> <td><code>web_data_npm_package</code>, <code>web_data_pypi_package</code></td> </tr> <tr> <td><code>advanced_scraping</code></td> <td>Batch and AI-assisted extraction helpers</td> <td><code>search_engine_batch</code>, <code>scrape_batch</code>, <code>extract</code></td> </tr> </table>

Claude Desktop example

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "Bright Data": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["@brightdata/mcp"],
      "env": {
        "API_TOKEN": "<your-api-token-here>",
        "GROUPS": "browser,advanced_scraping",
        "TOOLS": "extract"
      }
    }
  }
}

Coding agent example (Claude Code / Cursor / Windsurf)

Give your coding agent real-time package intelligence — latest versions, READMEs, dependencies, and metadata from npm and PyPI without scraping:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "Bright Data": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["@brightdata/mcp"],
      "env": {
        "API_TOKEN": "<your-api-token-here>",
        "GROUPS": "code"
      }
    }
  }
}

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✨ Features

🔥 Core Capabilities

<table> <tr> <td>🔍 <b>Smart Web Search</b><br/>Google-quality results optimized for AI</td> <td>📄 <b>Clean Markdown</b><br/>AI-ready content extraction</td> </tr> <tr> <td>🌍 <b>Global Access</b><br/>Bypass geo-restrictions automatically</td> <td>🛡️ <b>Anti-Bot Protection</b><br/>Never get blocked or rate-limited</td> </tr> <tr> <td>🤖 <b>Browser Automation</b><br/>Control real browsers remotely (Pro)</td> <td>⚡ <b>Lightning Fast</b><br/>Optimized for minimal latency</td> </tr> </table>

🎯 Example Queries That Just Work

✅ "What's Tesla's current stock price?"
✅ "Find the best-rated restaurants in Tokyo right now"
✅ "Get today's weather forecast for New York"
✅ "What movies are releasing this week?"
✅ "What are the trending topics on Twitter today?"
✅ "What's the latest version of express on npm?"
✅ "Get the README for the langchain-brightdata PyPI package"

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🎬 Demos

Note: These videos show earlier versions. New demos coming soon! 🎥

<details> <summary><b>View Demo Videos</b></summary>

Basic Web Search Demo

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/59f6ebba-801a-49ab-8278-1b2120912e33

Advanced Scraping Demo

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/61ab0bee-fdfa-4d50-b0de-5fab96b4b91d

📺 More tutorials on YouTube →

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🔧 Available Tools

⚡ Rapid Mode Tools (Default - Free)

| Tool | Description | Use Case | |------|-------------|----------| | 🔍 search_engine | Web search with AI-optimized results | Research, fact-checking, current events | | 📄 scrape_as_markdown | Convert any webpage to clean markdown | Content extraction, documentation | | 🎯 discover | AI-ranked web search with intent-based relevance scoring | Deep research, RAG pipelines, competitive analysis |

💎 Pro Mode Tools (60+ Tools)

<details> <summary><b>Click to see all Pro tools</b></summary>

| Category | Tools | Description | |----------|-------|-------------| | Browser Control | scraping_browser. | Full browser automation | | Web Data APIs | web_data_ | Structured data extraction | | E-commerce | Product scrapers | Amazon, eBay, Walmart data | | Social Media | Social scrapers | Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram | | Maps & Local | Location tools | Google Maps, business data |

📚 View complete tool documentation →

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🎮 Try It Now!

🧪 Online Playground

Try the Web MCP without any setup:

<div align="center"> <a href="https://brightdata.com/ai/playground-chat"> <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Try_on-Playground-00C7B7?style=for-the-badge&logo=data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMjQiIGhlaWdodD0iMjQiIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCAyNCAyNCIgZmlsbD0ibm9uZSIgeG1sbnM9Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cudzMub3JnLzIwMDAvc3ZnIj4KPHBhdGggZD0iTTEyIDJMMyA3VjE3TDEyIDIyTDIxIDE3VjdMMTIgMloiIHN0cm9rZT0id2hpdGUiIHN0cm9rZS13aWR0aD0iMiIvPgo8L3N2Zz4=" alt="Playground"/> </a> </div>

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🔧 Configuration

Basic Setup

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "Bright Data": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["@brightdata/mcp"],
      "env": {
        "API_TOKEN": "your-token-here"
      }
    }
  }
}

Advanced Configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "Bright Data": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["@brightdata/mcp"],
      "env": {
        "API_TOKEN": "your-token-here",
        "PRO_MODE": "true",              // Enable all 60+ tools
        "RATE_LIMIT": "100/1h",          // Custom rate limiting
        "WEB_UNLOCKER_ZONE": "custom",   // Custom unlocker zone
        "BROWSER_ZONE": "custom_browser", // Custom browser zone
        "POLLING_TIMEOUT": "600"         // Polling timeout in seconds (default: 600)
      }
    }
  }
}

Environment Variables

| Variable | Description | Default | Example | |----------|-------------|---------|---------| | API_TOKEN | Your Bright Data API token (required) | - | your-token-here | | PRO_MODE | Enable all 60+ tools | false | true | | RATE_LIMIT | Custom rate limiting | unlimited | 100/1h, 50/30m | | WEB_UNLOCKER_ZONE | Custom Web Unlocker zone name | mcp_unlocker | my_custom_zone | | BROWSER_ZONE | Custom Browser zone name | mcp_browser | my_browser_zone | | POLLING_TIMEOUT | Timeout for web_data_* tools polling (seconds) | 600 | 300, 1200 | | BASE_TIMEOUT | Request timeout for base tools in seconds (search & scrape) | No limit | 60, 120 | | BASE_MAX_RETRIES | Max retries for base tools on transient errors (0-3) | 0 | 1, 3 | | GROUPS | Comma-separated tool group IDs | - | ecommerce,browser | | TOOLS | Comma-separated individual tool names | - | extract,scrape_as_html |

Notes:

• POLLING_TIMEOUT controls how long web_data_* tools wait for results. Each second = 1 polling attempt.
• Lower values (e.g., 300) will fail faster on slow data collections.
• Higher values (e.g., 1200) allow more time for complex scraping tasks.

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📚 Documentation

<div align="center"> <table> <tr> <td align="center"> <a href="https://docs.brightdata.com/mcp-server/overview"> <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/📖-API_Docs-blue?style=for-the-badge" alt="API Docs"/> </a> </td> <td align="center"> <a href="https://github.com/brightdata-com/brightdata-mcp/blob/main/examples"> <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/💡-Examples-green?style=for-the-badge" alt="Examples"/> </a> </td> <td align="center"> <a href="https://github.com/brightdata-com/brightdata-mcp/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md"> <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/📝-Changelog-orange?style=for-the-badge" alt="Changelog"/> </a> </td> <td align="center"> <a href="https://brightdata.com/blog/ai/web-scraping-with-mcp"> <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/📚-Tutorial-purple?style=for-the-badge" alt="Tutorial"/> </a> </td> </tr> </table> </div>

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🚨 Common Issues & Solutions

<details> <summary><b>🔧 Troubleshooting Guide</b></summary>

❌ "spawn npx ENOENT" Error

Solution: Install Node.js or use the full path to node: ``json "command": "/usr/local/bin/node" // macOS/Linux "command": "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" // Windows ``

⏱️ Timeouts on Complex Sites

Solution: Increase timeout in your client settings to 180s

🔑 Authentication Issues

Solution: Ensure your API token is valid and has proper permissions

📡 Remote Server Connection

Solution: Check your internet connection and firewall settings

More troubleshooting →

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🤝 Contributing

We love contributions! Here's how you can help:

• 🐛 Report bugs
• 💡 Suggest features
• 🔧 Submit PRs
• ⭐ Star this repo!

Please follow Bright Data's coding standards.

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📞 Support

<div align="center"> <table> <tr> <td align="center"> <a href="https://github.com/brightdata-com/brightdata-mcp/issues"> <strong>🐛 GitHub Issues</strong><br/> _{Report bugs & features} </a> </td> <td align="center"> <a href="https://docs.brightdata.com/mcp-server/overview"> <strong>📚 Documentation</strong><br/> _{Complete guides} </a> </td> <td align="center"> <a href="mailto:support@brightdata.com"> <strong>✉️ Email</strong><br/> _{support@brightdata.com} </a> </td> </tr> </table> </div>

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📜 License

MIT © Bright Data Ltd.

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