Record · brightdata-mMCP serverOpen sourceVerified Sep 23, 2026

Bright Data MCP

Web search, scraping with unblocking, structured extraction and browser automation for AI agents.

Sources and review

Checked against public documentation on September 23, 2026. Suitability guidance is our editorial judgment; this is not a performance benchmark or an endorsement.

Best for

Agents that must reliably fetch public pages that block ordinary scrapers.

Avoid if

You need more than the free tier's 5,000 requests a month without paying; usage beyond it is billed by Bright Data.

About Bright Data MCP

Bright Data's official MCP server exposes 69 tools: search results from Google, Bing and Yandex as structured data; any URL as Markdown or HTML with bot detection, CAPTCHA solving and proxy rotation handled automatically; structured JSON from major platforms such as Amazon, YouTube and Reddit; and browser automation. It runs hosted or locally, with a free tier of 5,000 requests a month.

Bright Data MCP is an open-source project written primarily in JavaScript, with 2.7k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in September 2026.

Add Bright Data MCP to your MCP client

Generated from the launch command in the project's README. Your client starts the server on demand. Replace <your-api-token> with your own value first.

Claude CodeRun in your terminal

claude mcp add brightdata-mcp -e 'API_TOKEN=<your-api-token>' -- npx @brightdata/mcp

Cursor~/.cursor/mcp.json or .cursor/mcp.json

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

VS Code.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "brightdata-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["@brightdata/mcp"],
      "env": {
        "API_TOKEN": "<your-api-token>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktopclaude_desktop_config.json

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

Codex~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.brightdata-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["@brightdata/mcp"]
env = { API_TOKEN = "<your-api-token>" }

Check the project's README for required accounts, keys and permissions before connecting. Setup guide for each client →

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