MCP Server

Bright Data Model Context Protocol (MCP) empowers your AI models and agents with real-time, reliable access to public web data. With Bright Data MCP, your applications can effortlessly retrieve both static and dynamic content from across the web, eliminating the need to build or maintain complex data scraping and unlocking infrastructure.

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Configuration

Before you begin, ensure you have the below completed:

• Node.js package is installed and updated
• Make sure you have an account on Bright Data (new users get free credit for testing, and pay as you go options are available)
• Get your API key from the user settings page
• Create a Web Unlocker zone named mcp_unlocker in your control panel
• For browser automation capabilities create a Scraping Browser zone in your control panel (any zone name is allowed)

Step 1:

Install Bright Data MCP package:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@brightdata/mcp

Step 2:

Paste the below code onto your MCP configuration.json file

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "Bright Data": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["@brightdata/mcp"],
      "env": {
        "API_TOKEN": "<insert-your-api-token-here>",
        "WEB_UNLOCKER_ZONE": "<optional if you want to override the default mcp_unlocker zone name>",
        "BROWSER_AUTH": "<optional if you want to enable remote browser control tools>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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Examples