# Bright Data MCP shipped an update

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> Published: 2026-10-19 11:53:17+00:00

# Bright Data MCP

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

## Sources and review

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

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

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 listed in this index written primarily in JavaScript, with 2.7k stars on GitHub. Its latest recorded repository push was in October 2026; that is not an ASE editorial review date.

## Before connecting: access and data

This record's specific permissions have not been reviewed by ASE. Read the publisher's documentation before copying setup or connecting.

- List the accounts, files and services the enabled tools can read, change or execute. Check your actual credentials and discovered tools.
- Use narrowly scoped credentials and read-only mode where supported. Review proposed writes before approving them; a generated configuration does not apply these limits for you.
- Local launch is not local-only data processing. External services receive requests, and your client may pass tool results to its model provider. Check both destinations before sharing private data.
- Keep keys and browser session files out of shared config, repositories and screenshots. Know how to disconnect the server and separately revoke its credentials or account sessions.

## 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 Code

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

## Cursor

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

## VS Code

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

## Claude Desktop

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

## Codex

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

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