Residential Proxy Network Policy
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.
Quick Start with Immediate Access
Bright Data allows its clients to immediately use their entire residential network within the framework of our Terms of Service.
To allow access to the Residential network, you MUST follow this step. If you don’t, your code will receive error messages and you will not be able to connect.
To access the Residential network, please follow the instructions
Don’t want to install the certification?
You may proceed without certification or go to KYC verification Bright Data will have access to traffic usage, i.e. web pages visited, time spent on those pages, access times, and dates. Bright Data will save this information for a limited amount of time in order to fix any performance issues that may occur and allow our compliance team to verify the proxy usage is in accordance with our ethical guidelines.
To start your KYC verification process, click here.
Bright Data will not share this information with third parties, excluding scenarios where it is required in order to comply with applicable law. Learn more about our privacy policy.
robots.txt in Immediate Access Residential
To align with our commitment to respectful and compliant web resource usage, our Residential Proxy Immediate Access mode adheres to robots.txt directives, applying its logic across our different proxy networks. Upon opting into the Immediate Access mode, the operational behavior adjusts based on robots.txt compliance and the user’s KYC status:
When an endpoint is accessible according to robots.txt, the service operates normally within the user’s selected proxy network, whether that’s Residential, Mobile, Datacenter or ISP.
If an endpoint is blocked by robots.txt rules, or the request type is one of POST, PUT, PATCH, or DELETE — such requests will be blocked with the error: 502 Residential Failed (bad_endpoint).
Since target websites modify their robots.txt and access policy without notification, it is not possible to know in advance which target domain is accessible and which is not via our residential network. It is also possible that while websites allow access to some parts of their content, they may choose to block some or all access.
You can chose to identify the correct method to access the content by trial and error or any other method you chose, or check our advanced scraping APIs, scraping browser and Unlocker products which can get you access quicker.
To get full Residential access please follow our KYC Verification process.
KYC Verification
Know Your Customer (KYC) is a process for every customer wishing to obtain full access to his Residential proxy without installing SSL certification, and access sites not already pre-approved by our compliance team. When submitting your KYC, you’ll be asked to present and clarify your use case in order to target those sites with the Residential proxy network.
To start your KYC verification process right now, click here.
At any point, a KYC can be submitted by choosing the “Full access requires identity verification” option.
If you wish to go back for the SSL certification option got to Basic Information and click on “installing our certificate”:
The KYC process is not available in Playground/Limited Trial modes. The process can be started only after adding real funds to the account balance.
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