luminati-io/brightdata-mcp

Overview

An open-source Model Context Protocol server that provides programmatic access to public web data. It acts as a bridge between AI agents and web scraping capabilities using the MCP standard.

Best for

Best for
Developers who need a reliable, standards-based way to give AI agents controlled access to public web data.

Use cases

• Scraping public web pages for data extraction
• Feeding real-time web content into AI agent workflows
• Building automated research tools that browse public sites

How to use

Tools exposed

• API_TOKEN
• PRO_MODE
• RATE_LIMIT
• WEB_UNLOCKER_ZONE
• BROWSER_ZONE
• POLLING_TIMEOUT
• BASE_TIMEOUT
• BASE_MAX_RETRIES

Tested with

Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, ChatGPT

Example client config

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

Notes

An open-source Model Context Protocol server that provides programmatic access to public web data. It acts as a bridge between AI agents and web scraping capabilities using the MCP standard.

2,425 stars on GitHub. Last updated 2026-06-01. Licensed MIT.

Use cases

• Scraping public web pages for data extraction
• Feeding real-time web content into AI agent workflows
• Building automated research tools that browse public sites

Pros

• Well-established with over 2400 GitHub stars
• Written in JavaScript, easy to integrate into Node.js projects
• Leverages the MCP standard for interoperability with AI systems

Cons

• Requires a BrightData account and API key for full functionality
• Limited to publicly accessible web data only
• May incur usage costs from the underlying BrightData service

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