Bright Data

Bright Data is a web data platform providing a global proxy network (residential, datacenter, ISP, mobile), pre-built Web Scraper APIs for 100+ sites, a SERP API, the Web Unlocker, ready-made Datasets, and a Scraping Browser (Browser API) that exposes a real Chrome DevTools Protocol endpoint over WebSocket for Puppeteer, Playwright, and Selenium automation.

Bright Data publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Browser API API, SERP API, Web Scraper API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Web Data, Web Scraping, Web Intelligence, Proxy, and Data Extraction.

The Bright Data catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Bright Data’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, and 8 more developer resources.

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48.3/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 35/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-03 · rubric v0.9

AccessPaidSelf serve

5 APIs

Web DataWeb ScrapingWeb IntelligenceProxyData ExtractionSERPWeb UnlockerDatasetsData CollectionBrowser Automation

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scored 2026-08-03 · rubric v0.9

Composite quality — 48.3/100 · developing

Contract Quality 18.1 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20

Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13

Governance 5.7 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 35/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 5

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Bright Data Browser API API

Scraping Browser session metadata (CDP itself is over WebSocket).

Bright Data SERP API

Search-engine results via zone-based requests.

Bright Data Web Scraper API

Trigger dataset collections and retrieve snapshots.

Bright Data Web Unlocker API

Single-page unlocking via zone-based requests.

Bright Data Zones API

Account and proxy zone management.

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Bright Data Platform API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Brightdata Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Brightdata Rate Limits

4 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Brightdata Finops

FINOPS

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Bright Data Scraping Browser (Browser API) - CDP over WebSocket

AsyncAPI 2.6 description of Bright Data's **Scraping Browser / Browser API** WebSocket surface. Bright Data DOES publish a public WebSocket API. The Scraping Browser is a cloud ...

ASYNCAPI

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Bright Data API Rules

8 rules · 1 errors 6 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Brightdata Authentication

http/userPassword · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Brightdata Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Brightdata Agentic Access

8 operations · 4 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: brightdata
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/brightdata/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Bright Data
kind: company
description: Bright Data is a web data platform providing a global proxy network (residential, datacenter, ISP, mobile), pre-built
  Web Scraper APIs for 100+ sites, a SERP API, the Web Unlocker, ready-made Datasets, and a Scraping Browser (Browser API)
  that exposes a real Chrome DevTools Protocol endpoint over WebSocket for Puppeteer, Playwright, and Selenium automation.
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/brightdata.png
tags:
- Web Data
- Web Scraping
- Web Intelligence
- Proxy
- Data Extraction
- SERP
- Web Unlocker
- Datasets
- Data Collection
- Browser Automation
created: '2026-07-12'
modified: '2026-07-12'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: brightdata:brightdata-browser-api-api
  name: Bright Data Browser API API
  description: Scraping Browser session metadata (CDP itself is over WebSocket).
  humanURL: https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/rest-api/scraper/asynchronous-requests
  baseURL: https://api.brightdata.com
  tags:
  - Browser API
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/brightdata-browser-api-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/scraping-automation/web-scraper-api/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/rest-api/scraper/asynchronous-requests
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/brightdata.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/brightdata.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/scraping-automation/serp-api/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/rest-api/serp/serp-api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/scraping-automation/web-unlocker/introduction
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/rest-api/unlocker/unlock-website
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/account-management-api/introduction
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/account-management-api/Add_a_Zone
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/datasets/marketplace-datasets/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/marketplace-dataset-api/get-dataset-list
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/scraping-automation/scraping-browser/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/scraping-automation/scraping-browser/cdp-functions/standard
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/brightdata-asyncapi.yml
- aid: brightdata:brightdata-serp-api
  name: Bright Data SERP API
  description: Search-engine results via zone-based requests.
  humanURL: https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/rest-api/scraper/asynchronous-requests
  baseURL: https://api.brightdata.com
  tags:
  - SERP
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/brightdata-serp-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/scraping-automation/web-scraper-api/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/rest-api/scraper/asynchronous-requests
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/brightdata.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/brightdata.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/scraping-automation/serp-api/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/rest-api/serp/serp-api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/scraping-automation/web-unlocker/introduction
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/rest-api/unlocker/unlock-website
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/account-management-api/introduction
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/account-management-api/Add_a_Zone
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/datasets/marketplace-datasets/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/marketplace-dataset-api/get-dataset-list
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/scraping-automation/scraping-browser/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/scraping-automation/scraping-browser/cdp-functions/standard
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/brightdata-asyncapi.yml
- aid: brightdata:brightdata-web-scraper-api
  name: Bright Data Web Scraper API
  description: Trigger dataset collections and retrieve snapshots.
  humanURL: https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/rest-api/scraper/asynchronous-requests
  baseURL: https://api.brightdata.com
  tags:
  - Web Scraper
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/brightdata-web-scraper-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/scraping-automation/web-scraper-api/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/rest-api/scraper/asynchronous-requests
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/brightdata.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/brightdata.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/scraping-automation/serp-api/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/rest-api/serp/serp-api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/scraping-automation/web-unlocker/introduction
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/rest-api/unlocker/unlock-website
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/account-management-api/introduction
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/account-management-api/Add_a_Zone
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/datasets/marketplace-datasets/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/marketplace-dataset-api/get-dataset-list
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/scraping-automation/scraping-browser/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/scraping-automation/scraping-browser/cdp-functions/standard
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/brightdata-asyncapi.yml
- aid: brightdata:brightdata-web-unlocker-api
  name: Bright Data Web Unlocker API
  description: Single-page unlocking via zone-based requests.
  humanURL: https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/rest-api/scraper/asynchronous-requests
  baseURL: https://api.brightdata.com
  tags:
  - Web Unlocker
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/brightdata-web-unlocker-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/scraping-automation/web-scraper-api/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/rest-api/scraper/asynchronous-requests
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/brightdata.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/brightdata.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/scraping-automation/serp-api/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/rest-api/serp/serp-api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/scraping-automation/web-unlocker/introduction
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/rest-api/unlocker/unlock-website
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/account-management-api/introduction
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/account-management-api/Add_a_Zone
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/datasets/marketplace-datasets/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/marketplace-dataset-api/get-dataset-list
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/scraping-automation/scraping-browser/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/scraping-automation/scraping-browser/cdp-functions/standard
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/brightdata-asyncapi.yml
- aid: brightdata:brightdata-zones-api
  name: Bright Data Zones API
  description: Account and proxy zone management.
  humanURL: https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/rest-api/scraper/asynchronous-requests
  baseURL: https://api.brightdata.com
  tags:
  - Zones
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/brightdata-zones-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/scraping-automation/web-scraper-api/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/rest-api/scraper/asynchronous-requests
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/brightdata.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/brightdata.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/scraping-automation/serp-api/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/rest-api/serp/serp-api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/scraping-automation/web-unlocker/introduction
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/rest-api/unlocker/unlock-website
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/account-management-api/introduction
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/account-management-api/Add_a_Zone
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/datasets/marketplace-datasets/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/marketplace-dataset-api/get-dataset-list
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/scraping-automation/scraping-browser/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com/scraping-automation/scraping-browser/cdp-functions/standard
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/brightdata-asyncapi.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/brightdata-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/brightdata-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/brightdata-authentication.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/brightdata
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bright-data
- type: Website
  url: https://brightdata.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.brightdata.com
- type: Plans
  url: plans/brightdata-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/brightdata-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/brightdata-finops.yml
- type: Blog
  url: https://brightdata.com/blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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