Proxies & Scraping Infra

• What Proxy & Scraping Infra solutions do we offer?

  Bright Data offers a range of proxy and scraping infra solutions for every use case, allowing you to focus on your data collection while our technology takes care of the rest.Take a look at our proxy offerings below and see how you...

• Find the right proxy product for your business

  See below which of Bright Data's proxy products best fits your custom business needs. If you are looking for a complete ready-to-use Dataset, please check out our Web Data products.   Type Product Best for Proxy Unlocking So...

• Getting started with Web Unlocker

  Learn about Bright Data’s Web Unlocker solution, how to get started, and some tips for best use. Bright Data’s Web Unlocker Web Unlocker is one of our proxy-unlocking solutions and is designed to help you focus on your data collect...

• Integrations

  Learn about Bright Data’s Web Unlocker integration options and some tips for best use. Support for Browser Automation Tools  Web Unlocker is best suited for web pages that do not require any browser interaction and as such, it is n...

• API

  Learn about Bright Data’s API for Web Unlocker, how to get started, basic guidelines, and some tips for optimal use. Getting started with Web Unlocker's API Here's an example of the most simple Web Unlocker request using cURL that ...

• Monitoring Web Unlocker Usage and Statistics

  Monitor Web Unlocker Usage To review your current Web Unlocker CPM, navigate to ‘My Proxies’ page, and review the ‘Traffic’ column. Understand Your Web Unlocker usage The number displayed in the traffic column above is the number ...

• Web Unlocker Premium Domains

  Premium domains are a part of Bright Data's two-tiered website classification system and these are websites that are more challenging to unblock than others and require additional Web Unlocker resources. In this article, we will se...

• Website classification and pricing

  Website classification To keep your data collection as cost-efficient as possible, we have two pricing tiers: Regular websites - The vast majority of websites on the web.  Premium websites - These are sites where extra resources a...

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• What is Bright Data SERP API?

  Bright Data SERP API automatically extracts public data from search engines. Search engines are constantly changing their SERP structure and algorithms. Search Engine Results Pages (SERP or SERPs) are also dynamic, meaning the res...

• Why should I use Bright Data's SERP API?

  Accuracy – Use real user devices with laser-focused geotargeting (including city-level) to collect accurate Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs) from major search engines as a real user. Built for volume – Bright Data can support yo...

• How to run SERP API with Postman

  Postman is an API platform for building and using APIs. It is available as SaaS or as a desktop application. To configure SERP API with Postman, follow these steps: In the Bright Data control panel: Set your SERP API proxy to work...

• What are the ranking fields in SERP API's response JSON?

  Search engine providers want to answer users’ queries as quickly as possible in the search results pages, which often forces users to click on multiple results and wait for the applicable website to load, or fine-tune their query. ...

• How to collect hotel data with SERP API

  Bright Data’s SERP API makes it easy to collect hotel data, like prices, availability, reviews, and more.  There are two ways to collect hotel data: Search for a specific hotel on Google Search The hotel page on Google Travel (whe...

• How to send Asynchronous requests to a SERP API zone

  There are 2 methods for handling your API requests: Direct (Synchronous) requests  - send a request and get the response in an average of 5 seconds Asynchronous requests - send a request without waiting for the response With Asyn...

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• Getting started with Scraping Browser

  Learn about Bright Data’s Scraping Browser solution, how to get started, and some tips for best use. Bright Data’s Scraping Browser Scraping Browser is one of our proxy-unblocking solutions and is designed to help you easily focus ...

• Getting started with Datacenter Proxies

  Learn about Bright Data’s Datacenter proxies, how to get started, what are the guidelines, and some tips for best use. Bright Data's Datacenter Proxy Network Bright Data's Datacenter proxy network is one of our proxy network soluti...

• Datacenter: How To Guides

  Learn about the different targeting options for Datacenter proxies, control panel configurations, and more. Getting Started If you haven't yet seen our Datacenter Proxy Getting started guide, you'll want to go there first to briefl...

• Integrations

  Learn about the different integration methods for your Datacenter proxy network, what are the guidelines, and some tips for best use. Sending requests using your Datacenter proxy network Bright Data's Datacenter proxies can be acce...

• API

  Dive into Bright Data’s API for the Datacenter proxy network, how to get started, basic guidelines, and some tips for optimal use. API Documentation - Datacenter proxy network Our API documentation below describes how to use Bright...

• Datacenter IP Types

  Learn about the different types of Datacenter IPs and see which one is right for you.  __________ There are three types of IPs that we offer within our Datacenter Proxy Network: Shared (Pay per usage) Shared (Pay per IP) Dedicated...

• Accepted Usage per IP and Monitoring Traffic

  How Traffic Is Measured Your usage of a proxy network is calculated with bandwidth. Bandwidth is the amount of information that is sent over a connection and is being downloaded. Each request you send with your proxy consumes a cer...

• Getting started with ISP Proxies

  Learn about Bright Data’s ISP proxies, how to get started, and some tips for best use. Bright Data's ISP Proxy Network Bright Data’s ISP Proxies Network is one of our proxy network solutions, and is built of residential IPs bought ...

• ISP Proxy: How To Guides

  Take a deeper look into our ISP Proxy network and explore the different targeting options, control panel configurations, and more. Getting Started If you haven't yet seen our ISP Proxy Getting started guide, you'll want to go there...

• Integrations

  Learn about the different integration methods for your ISP proxy network, what are the guidelines, and some tips for best use. Sending requests using your ISP proxy network Bright Data's Mobile proxies can be accessed via API reque...

• API

  Learn about Bright Data’s API for ISP proxy network, how to get started, basic guidelines, and some tips for optimal use. API Documentation - ISP proxy network Our API documentation below describes how to use Bright Data's API comm...

• ISP IP types

  Learn about the different types of ISP IPs and see which one is right for you.  __________ There are three types of IPs that we offer within our ISP Proxy Network: Shared (Pay per usage) Shared (Pay per IP) Dedicated  Shared  Sha...

• Monitoring ISP Network Usage and Statistics

  Monitor Your Usage To review your current bandwidth consumption, simply browse to your ISP zone, click on ‘Statistics’ in the top menu, in the ‘Metrics’ section, open the drop-down menu, and change the metric to ‘GB’. How Traffic ...

• Getting started with Residential Proxy

  Learn about Bright Data’s Residential proxies, how to get started, and some tips for best use. Bright Data’s Residential Proxy Network The Bright Data Residential proxy network is one of our proxy network solutions and is a network...

• Residential Proxies: How to guides

  Take a deeper look into Residential Proxy and explore the different targeting options, control panel configurations, and more. Getting Started If you haven't yet seen our Residential Proxy Getting started guide, you'll want to go t...

• Integrations

  Learn about the different integration methods for your residential proxy network, what are the guidelines, and some tips for best use. Sending requests using your residential proxy network Bright Data's Residential proxies can be a...

• API

  Learn about Bright Data’s API for the Residential proxy network, how to get started, basic guidelines, and some tips for optimal use. API Documentation - Residential proxy network Our API documentation below describes how to use Br...

• Residential IP Types

  Learn about the different types of Residential IPs and see which one is right for you. __________ There are two types of IPs that we offer within our Residential Proxy: Shared and Dedicated.  Shared  IPs that are shared across mult...

• Monitoring Residential Network Usage

  Monitor Your Usage To review your current bandwidth consumption, simply browse to your residential zone, click on ‘Statistics’ in the top menu, in the ‘Metrics’ section, open the drop-down menu, and change the metric to ‘GB’. How ...

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• Getting started with Mobile Proxies

  Learn about Bright Data’s Mobile proxies, how to get started, what are the guidelines, and some tips for best use. Bright Data's Mobile Proxy Network Bright Data’s Mobile Proxy Network is a network of 7 million mobile IPs that come...

• Mobile Proxy: How to guides

  Take a deeper look into Mobile Proxy and explore the different targeting options, control panel configurations, and more. Getting Started If you haven't yet seen our Mobile Proxy Getting started guide, you'll want to go there first...

• Integrations

  Learn about the different integration methods for your Mobile proxy network, what are the guidelines, and some tips for best use. Sending requests using your Mobile proxy network Bright Data's Mobile proxies can be accessed via API...

• API

  Learn about Bright Data’s API for Mobile proxy network, how to get started, basic guidelines, and some tips for optimal use. API Documentation - Mobile proxy network Our API documentation below describes how to use Bright Data's AP...

• Monitoring Mobile Network Usage

  Monitor Your Usage To review your current bandwidth consumption, simply browse to your Mobile zone, click on ‘Statistics’ in the top menu, in the ‘Metrics’ section, open the drop-down menu, and change the metric to ‘GB’. How Traff...

• Mobile IP types

  Learn about the different types of Mobile IPs and see which one is right for you. __________ There are two types of IPs that we offer within our Mobile Proxy: Shared and Dedicated.  Shared  IPs that are shared across multiple users...

• API

  Country Targeting You can target a specific country by adding a country code to your username, like username-country-country_code. Use only two-letter country codes in lowercase. curl--proxy zproxy.lum-superproxy.io:22225 --proxy-...

• Selecting Super Proxy in a Specific Country

  It is possible to require our load balancer to provide a super proxy in a specific country.  Choosing the super proxy country can be done like this: servercountry-{country}.zproxy.luminati.io. E.g. servercountry-gb.zproxy.lum-super...

• Target Countries in Europe

  You can target the entire European Union region in the same manner as "Country" above by adding "eu" after "country" in your request: -country-eu IPs from the following country codes are included automatically within "eu": AL, AZ, ...

• Target specific OS

  Bright Data allows targeting the following Operating Systems: Windows: curl --proxy zproxy.lum-superproxy.io:22225 --proxy-user brd-customer-<USERNAME>-zone-<ZONE>-os-windows:<PASSWORD> "<TARGET SITE>" MAC: curl --proxy zproxy.lu...

• How To Guides - All Proxies

  Learn about the different IP targeting options for Bright Data’s Proxy networks, how to set limits on bandwidth consumption, whitelisting IPs, and more! TipCheck out our table of contents on the left to navigate through the section...

• Integrations

  Learn about Bright Data’s proxies integration options and some tips for best use. Bright Data Super Proxy and Selenium Integration Begin by going to your Bright Data Dashboard and clicking ‘create a Zone’. Choose ‘Network type’ an...

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• Getting Started with Proxy Manager

  Learn about Bright Data's Proxy Manager application tool. What it is, how to get started, and how it can be utilized to manage our various proxy products.  Bright Data's Proxy Manager Bright Data Proxy Manager is an application wh...

• Proxy Manager: How to Guides

  Learn more about what Proxy Manager can do, how to tailor it to your needs, and how to implement popular optimized workflows. Install Bright Data Proxy Manager Bright Data Cloud Hosting Hosting the Proxy Manager on-premise requires...

• Integrations

  Learn about Bright Data’s Proxy Manager integration options and some tips for best use. How to integrate the Proxy Manager with third party apps? The Proxy Manager is an Open-Source project that can be installed in various environm...

• API

  Our Proxy Manager API documentation describes how to use Bright Data's API commands and special flags used for automating and controlling recurrent actions executed with Proxy Manager. API commands are usually used within a code sc...

• Security

  Ensuring the security of our products is crucial and remains a top priority for us. Our state-of-the-art architecture allows us to deliver you our Cloud hosted Proxy Manager with complete reliability and security and recommend this...

• Proxy Manager - Cloud Hosting Advantages

  Hosting Proxy Manager on our Cloud servers Our Proxy Manager is easy to install and maintain on your local machine or a remote server but it is recommended to use our Cloud server to get full access to all that Proxy Manager has to...

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• What is Bright Data Proxy Browser Extension?

  It's a browser extension that allows you to use Bright Data from your browser with minimum setup.

• Why should I use it?

  Use the Proxy Browser Extension to self-test your website, verify your ads, or simply browse a site as if from another country. It's a powerful complement to the Bright Data Proxy Manager and an easy-to-use tool for less technical ...

• What features are available in the extension?

  Bright Data Proxy Browser Extension supports datacenter and residential IP browsing, allowing you to search from any country. You can adjust the user agent, customize configuration of the DNS to maximize discretion or speed, and se...

• How can I start using it?

  Once you have an active account on Bright Data, install the extension here, set up your zone and start browsing from anywhere in the world.

• Why login message keeps appearing

  Bright Data uses cookies to remember your login credentials in order to keep your user experience at its best. If you are using third-party extensions that regularly removes cookies from your device then you'll see the login messag...

• Does the extension work in incognito mode?

  Yes. Bright Data extension works on both regular and incognito mode. To enable incognito support on Chrome, do the following: Type chrome://extensions in the chrome address bar Make sure Allow in incognito is checked

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• Billing & Pricing for our Proxy Solutions

  Learn how pricing is calculated for all of our Bright Data Proxy Solutions, and find out which plan is best for you. Plans We offer two main pricing plans to choose from: monthly and annual. Each plan has its own benefits, dependi...