brightdata-mcp

Choose the data you need — search results, a scraped page, structured platform data, or full browser automation — and the tool group that covers it.

Create a Bright Data account and copy your API token from account settings (the free tier needs no credit card).

Add the hosted MCP URL with your token to your client, or configure the local npx @brightdata/mcp server with API_TOKEN. Optionally restrict groups/tools in the URL or env.

Ask your agent to run a search_engine query or scrape_as_markdown on a page that normally blocks scrapers.

Clone the server repo if you want the source; most users use the hosted URL or npx in steps 2–3.

git clone https://github.com/brightdata/brightdata-mcp.git
cd brightdata-mcp

Add the remote MCP URL with your API token to your MCP client — no installation.

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

Configure your client to launch the npm package with your token in the environment.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "Bright Data": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["@brightdata/mcp"],
      "env": { "API_TOKEN": "YOUR_API_TOKEN" }
    }
  }
}