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Extracting news articles, headlines, publishers, dates, and URLs to stay updated on the latest news and developments.

Bright Data offers a range of proxy and scraping infra solutions for every use case, allowing you to focus on your data collection while our technology takes care of the rest.

Welcome to the Scraping Cloud

Getting to know our proxy products

Collect data at scale using the industry's most reliable proxy infrastructure distributed across 195+ countries

Bright Data's Proxy Network

Learn how to work with Bright Data's Residential proxy network

Introduction

Quick Start

Configure your proxy settings to suit your needs.

Configure your Proxy

To protect Bright Data's residential network, monitoring rules are applied to all traffic preventing customers from accessing domains outside their use case and Bright Data's network policy.

Network Access

Residential Proxy Network Policy

Send your first request

Learn about Bright Data's Datacenter proxy network

Learn about Bright Data's ISP proxy Network

FAQs

Learn about Bright Data's Mobile proxy Network

Learn about Bright Data's Proxy Manager application tool

Learn more about what Proxy Manager can do, how to tailor it to your needs, and how to implement popular optimized workflows.

Learn about Bright Data's Proxy Manager integration options and some tips for best use.

Optimize your scraping operations for increased success rates

Bright Data's Scraping Solutions

Learn about Bright Data's Web Unlocker solution

Working with API

Learn about Bright Data's SERP API solution

In this article, we will cover the basics of parsing with SERP API and see real examples of parsed data.

Parsing Search Results

In this article, we'll explain the difference between sync and async requests, highlight the benefits of async API, and describe key parameters with examples.

Asynchronous Requests

Learn about Bright Data's Scraping Browser solution

Once you have created your scraping browser, you can get started by following this guide.

Code Examples

This article describes the basic concepts in web scraping, like Navigation, Parsing, Worker type, and main Challenges

The Basics of Web Scraping

This article reviews the interface components of our IDE that is especially designed for web scraping purposes, and the interface components of the control panel (dashboard) from which you can manage your scrapers (scrapers).

Get to know the IDE interface

Coding Environment & Tutorials

Develop a self-managed scraper

Initiate Collection & Delivery

This article explains the behavior difference between worker types, how to choose the right one for your project

Worker types

Best Practices

Complete Examples

Learn about Bright Data's Browser Extension

How to install the extension

Get Started

Get to know Bright Shield

Asset Shield

Scraping Shield

Bright Data Datasets

This article describes the options for getting the dataset once the snapshot is ready.

Custom Dataset API is a feature designed to enrich your data acquisition process.

Custom Dataset API

For Customers

Data validation for Customers

For Partners

Data validation for Partners

Integrate Bright Data APIs to your pipeline and secure high-end scraping precision

Scrape with APIs

Geolocation targeting allows you to target specific locations based on `Country`, `City`, `State`, `ASN`, or `ZIP code`

Geolocation Targeting

Request and Response C-Tag

Rotate IPs

Configuring DNS Resolution

Request Error Handling

Send requests directly from Super Proxy

Carrier-specific Proxy peer IP (Mobile only)

Select a specific gIP

Select a specific IP

API Token options

Get latest PM version

Get the latest Proxy Manager (PM) version

Get Proxy Manager version

Upgrade Proxy Manager

Get current NodeJS version

Add a User

Get all users

Whitelist IPs

Whitelist IPs to Access UI

Restart Proxy Manager

Shutdown Proxy Manager

Get general settings

Update General Setting

Get explicit configuration of specified Proxies

Generate API Token for Token based Authentication

Generate API Token

Get effective configuration

Get effective configuration for all running proxies

Get enabled Zone's Config

Get enabled Zone's configuration

Get Recent Status

Get HAR Logs

Get tail from the Log file

Get allocated gIPs

Get allocated gIPs in a zone

Get allocated IPs in a zone

Refresh IP/gIP

Refresh IP/gIP in a zone

Create new Proxy Port

Delete Proxy Ports (multiple)

Delete a Proxy Port

Update a Proxy Port

Get Proxy Port Status

Refresh PM Port Sesson

Enable SSL Analyzing (All Ports)

Ban an IP

Ban multiple IPs (array)

Ban an IP (All Ports)

Unban an IP

Unban IPs (multiple)

Get Banned IPs

Send your first Request

Country Targeting

Mobile User-agent Targeting

API Token

Account Management

The Data scraper product offers a JSON API to control and inspect your data scrapers programmatically.

Getting started with the API

Choose Delivery Type

Choose a delivery type on request level

Initiate a Batch job

Trigger a scraper for batch collection method

Receive Batch data

Initiate a Realtime job

Trigger a scraper for real-time collection

Recieve Realtime data

Receive data from real-time work scraper

Errors

Overview

Request a collection

Status of a collection by job_id

Initiating a collection

Initiating a collection (New Dataset)

Initiate an existing Dataset

Status of a collection by snapshot_id

Download the file by snapshot_id

Returns usage data per domain for the chosen classification

Returns usage data per zone for the chosen classification

Returns sample requests data for the chosen classification

Add a Zone

Add domain to Zone whitelist or blacklist

Whitelist/Blacklist Domain(s)

Blacklist IP(s)

Whitelist IP(s)

Add Static IP(s)

Migrate Static IPs between zones (Datacenter/ISP)

Migrate Static IPs between zones

Refresh dedicated residential IPs

Refresh Static IPs (Datacenter/ISP)

Change Account Status

Account status

Active Zones

Get all available residential dedicated IPs per Zone

Available IPs/Zone

Available Datacenter & ISP IPs count

Amount of available Datacenter and ISP IPs

Get country cities

Get current service status

Get list of available cities of static network per country

List all available country's cities (static network)

Recent IPs attempting to use your Zone

Get the available Data center/ISP IPs per Zone

Available Datacenter & ISP IPs/Zone

Bandwidth stats for a zone

Get the bandwidth stats for all your Zones

Bandwidth stats for all your zones

Get the total cost and bandwidth stats for a Zone

Total cost & bandwidht for a zone

Get a list of blacklisted IPs for a specific Zone

List of blacklisted IPs for a zone

Get a list of whitelisted IPs for a specific Zone

List of whitelisted IPs for a zone

Get live status of Static (Datacenter/ISP) Zone and IPs with connectivity problem