# Bright Data

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/brightdata/  
**Website:** https://brightdata.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 5

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.

## Kin Score — 42.0 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-24 under rubric 0.13.0. Trend: flat (-0.5 from 42.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 63.5 |
| Governance | 13.6 |
| Contract Governance | 13.6 |
| Operational Transparency | 34.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 23.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 39.5 |
| Access Clarity | 39.5 |

## Agent readiness — 23.4 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | derived |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Paid · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: paid, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (5)

- **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.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Brightdata Agentic Access** — 8 operations · 4 acting

## Security (2)

- **Brightdata Authentication** — http/userPassword · 2 schemes
- **Brightdata Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Brightdata Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Web Data, Web Scraping, Web Intelligence, Proxy, Data Extraction, SERP, Web Unlocker, Datasets, Data Collection, Browser Automation

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/brightdata/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.