Bright Data

Ideal Use Cases

This scraping and unblocking API automates proxy rotation and anti-bot challenges. It is accessed via a RESTful API endpoint or a proxy gateway to return clean HTML or JSON from protected websites.

Performance

Features

Geotargeting

Geotargeting is enabled via the country parameter or the country code proxy flag. Country and city targeting are included in the standard credit cost, while requests to premium domains are charged at a separate higher rate.

Bright Data API Plans

Integrating Bright Data API

Developers connect via a RESTful POST request to the API endpoint or by routing traffic through a super proxy gateway. Authentication requires either a Bearer token or zone credentials consisting of a customer ID, zone name, and password.

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.brightdata.com/request \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '{
    "zone": "web_unlocker1",
    "url": "https://geo.brdtest.com/welcome.txt",
    "format": "raw"
  }'

The proxy gateway uses the address brd.superproxy.io on port 44445. Authentication is handled via the proxy user string which includes the customer ID and zone name, while parameters like country or rendering are passed as username flags.

curl "http://brdtest.com/myip.json" --proxy brd.superproxy.io:44445 --proxy-user brd-customer-<customer_id>-zone-<zone_name>:<zone_password>

import requests

url = "https://api.brightdata.com/request"
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
}
payload = {
    "zone": "web_unlocker1",
    "url": "https://geo.brdtest.com/welcome.txt",
    "format": "raw",
}

response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, json=payload)
print(response.text)

Ideal Use Cases

This residential proxy network routes traffic through over 400 million real peer devices across 195 countries. Users access the service via a proxy gateway to reach sites with strict anti-bot defenses.

Performance

Features

Geotargeting

Geotargeting is enabled by appending flags like -country, -city, and -zip to the proxy username. These parameters are included in the base price with no additional costs for specific geographic targeting.

Bright Data Residential Plans

Integrating Bright Data Residential

Scrapers connect to the host brd.superproxy.io on port 44445 using HTTP, HTTPS, or SOCKS5. Authentication is handled by supplying a zone username and password, with optional targeting flags embedded directly into the username string.

curl "http://brdtest.com/myip.json" --proxy brd.superproxy.io:44445 --proxy-user brd-customer-<customer_id>-zone-<zone_name>:<zone_password>

import requests

username = 'brd-customer-<customer_id>-zone-<zone_name>'
password = '<zone_password>'
proxy_url = f'http://{username}:{password}@brd.superproxy.io:44445'
proxies = {'http': proxy_url, 'https': proxy_url}

response = requests.get('http://brdtest.com/myip.json', proxies=proxies, verify=False)
print(response.text)