Brightdata MCP Server

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The Web MCP

Enhance your LLM and AI agents with real-time web access

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🌟 Overview

Welcome to the official Bright Data's Web MCP server, solving web access for LLMs and AI agents by allowing them to effectively search, extract and navigate the web without getting blocked. The Web MCP supports all major LLMs, IDEs and agent frameworks (either locally hosted, SSE or Streamable HTTP), enabling your tools to seamlessly search the web, navigate websites, take action and retrieve data - without getting blocked.

🚀 The Web MCP includes 5,000 free requests each month - ideal for your everyday use and for prototyping smart agentic workflows.

MCP

Note: The Web MCP free tier offers 5,000 requests per month for the first 3 months. After that, a credit card will be required, but there will be no extra charges unless premium features like mcp_browser or Web Scrapers are used.

🎬 Demo

The videos below demonstrate a minimal use case for Claude Desktop:

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/59f6ebba-801a-49ab-8278-1b2120912e33

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/61ab0bee-fdfa-4d50-b0de-5fab96b4b91d

For more YouTube tutorials and demos: Demo

✨ Features

Real-time Web Access: Access up-to-date information directly from the web
Bypass Geo-restrictions: Access content regardless of location constraints
Web Unlocker: Navigate websites with bot detection protection
Browser Control: Remote browser automation capabilities
Seamless Integration: Works with all MCP-compatible AI assistants

💡 Usage Examples

Some example queries that this MCP server will be able to help with:

"Google some movies that are releasing soon in [your area]"
"What's Tesla's current market cap?"
"What's the Wikipedia article of the day?"
"What's the 7-day weather forecast in [your location]?"
"Of the 3 highest paid tech CEOs, how long have their careers been?"

Quickstart with Cursor

🚀 Quickstart with hosted MCP on Claude Desktop

Through Connectors:

Open Claude Desktop
Go to: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector
Choose a Name, and in the "Remote MCP server URL" section, paste:

https://mcp.brightdata.com/mcp?token=YOUR_API_TOKEN_HERE

Replace YOUR_API_TOKEN_HERE with your actual API token from Step 1, and click "Add"

Through Developer Settings:

Open Claude Desktop
Go to: Settings → Developer → Edit Config
Add this to your claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "Bright Data": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://mcp.brightdata.com/mcp?token=YOUR_API_TOKEN_HERE"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Replace YOUR_API_TOKEN_HERE with your actual API token from Step 1
Save and restart Claude Desktop