Bright Data is a comprehensive web data platform designed to empower AI developers, enterprises, and researchers with seamless access to real-time, historical, and structured web data. The platform offers a suite of powerful APIs, managed proxy services, pre-collected datasets, and advanced browser automation tools, enabling users to crawl, search, extract, and integrate high-quality web data for AI training, research, and decision-making.
Key Features
Unlocker API: Bypass blocks, CAPTCHAs, and JS-rendering challenges to extract clean, LLM-ready text and multimedia data from any website.
Crawl API: Convert entire websites into structured, AI-friendly data with single API calls that crawl internal pages and output in JSON, Markdown, or HTML.
SERP API: Fetch geo-targeted, multi-engine search results on demand from Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yandex, and more to discover relevant data sources at scale.
Browser API: Run scalable, managed remote browsers purpose-built for AI agents to interact with websites in a stealth, unblockable manner without infrastructure overhead.
Scraper Studio & Data Feeds: Build and automate custom data pipelines to ingest real-time structured data from 100+ major websites, including LinkedIn, eCommerce portals, social media, and more.
Datasets Marketplace: Access curated, ready-to-use datasets spanning social media, eCommerce, real estate, and web archives — customizable for specific AI model training.
Web Archive Access: Explore a petabyte-scale archive of historical web data in 100+ languages, including billions of HTML pages, videos, images, and historical SERPs.
Proxy Services: Utilize global residential, ISP, datacenter, and mobile proxies with rotating IPs to conduct seamless, high-volume data extraction without blocks.
Managed Data Acquisition: Enterprise-grade tailored data solutions for complex or large-scale data harvesting with expert support and customization.
Data for AI: Infrastructure optimized for feeding AI models, agents, and apps with clean, curated, and scalable web data assets.
AI Model Training: Acquire tailored, clean, and diverse datasets for natural language processing, computer vision, and multimodal ML models.
Market and Retail Intelligence: Extract real-time competitive pricing, product availability, and consumer sentiment insights from eCommerce and social media.
Search and Research: Conduct geo-targeted SERP analysis across multiple search engines for SEO, advertising, and market research.
Web Scraping & Crawling: Turn complex, dynamic websites into structured data to power analytics, business intelligence, and decision automation.
Content Aggregation: Collect video, image, and text content at scale for media monitoring, journalistic research, and digital asset management.
Automation of AI Agents: Deploy AI agents capable of navigating and interacting with websites autonomously and at scale without blocks.
FAQ
Q: What data formats does Bright Data support for crawled content?
A: The platform outputs data in JSON, Markdown, and HTML formats optimized for large language models and AI use cases.
Q: Can Bright Data handle CAPTCHAs and other anti-bot mechanisms?
A: Yes, the Unlocker API and managed browser infrastructure are specifically designed to bypass blocks, CAPTCHAs, and JS-rendering hurdles.
Q: How extensive is the data coverage?
A: Bright Data covers over 100 websites for structured data feeds, billions of pages in the web archive, and proxies spanning over 150 million IPs globally.
Q: Is this service compliant with privacy and security standards?
A: Bright Data is GDPR-ready, SOC, ISO-certified, and committed to responsible data usage and transparency.
Q: Are there starter pricing options for small businesses and startups?
A: Yes, APIs like Unlocker and Crawl start as low as $1 per 1,000 requests and proxy services offer various competitive pricing tiers, including discounts.
Q: How quickly can I start using Bright Data?
A: You can start a free trial with no credit card required and access the user dashboard immediately to integrate the APIs and tools.
Bright Data serves over 20,000 customers worldwide, making it a trusted, scalable, and flexible choice for unlocking the full potential of web data in AI and enterprise applications.
