Bright Data is a web data platform that provides tools for scraping, searching, and extracting structured data from websites at scale, bypassing anti-bot protections, CAPTCHAs, and IP blocks along the way.
With Bright Data, you can:
- Scrape any URL: Fetch page content through Web Unlocker, with automatic anti-bot bypassing and optional Markdown conversion
- Search the web: Query Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, or Yandex through the SERP API and get structured results
- Discover content by intent: Run AI-powered searches that rank results by relevance to a stated goal, with optional cleaned page content for RAG
- Run pre-built scrapers: Trigger one of 660+ dataset scrapers for platforms like Amazon, LinkedIn, and Instagram, either synchronously for quick jobs or asynchronously via snapshots for larger ones
In Sim, the Bright Data integration allows your agents to scrape web pages, run search-engine queries, discover and rank content by intent, and trigger structured data extraction jobs against sites like Amazon and LinkedIn. Agents can check the status of async scraping jobs, download completed snapshot results, and cancel jobs still in progress—making it possible to build workflows that gather, monitor, and retrieve web data end to end.
Integrate Bright Data into the workflow. Scrape any URL with Web Unlocker, search Google and other engines with SERP API, discover web content ranked by intent, or trigger pre-built scrapers for structured data extraction.
Fetch content from any URL using Bright Data Web Unlocker. Bypasses anti-bot protections, CAPTCHAs, and IP blocks automatically.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|
apiKey | string | Yes | Bright Data API token |
zone | string | Yes | Web Unlocker zone name from your Bright Data dashboard (e.g., "web_unlocker1") |
url | string | Yes | The URL to scrape (e.g., "https://example.com/page"\) |
format | string | No | Response format: "raw" for HTML or "json" for parsed content. Defaults to "raw" |
country | string | No | Two-letter country code for geo-targeting (e.g., "us", "gb") |
dataFormat | string | No | Convert the response to "markdown" instead of raw HTML, useful for feeding page content to an LLM. Omit for the default HTML/JSON response |
| Parameter | Type | Description |
|---|
content | string | The scraped page content (HTML or JSON depending on format) |
url | string | The URL that was scraped |
statusCode | number | HTTP status code of the response |
Search Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, or Yandex and get structured search results using Bright Data SERP API.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|
apiKey | string | Yes | Bright Data API token |
zone | string | Yes | SERP API zone name from your Bright Data dashboard (e.g., "serp_api1") |
query | string | Yes | The search query (e.g., "best project management tools") |
searchEngine | string | No | Search engine to use: "google", "bing", "duckduckgo", or "yandex". Defaults to "google" |
country | string | No | Two-letter country code for localized results (e.g., "us", "gb") |
language | string | No | Two-letter language code (e.g., "en", "es") |
numResults | number | No | Number of results to return (e.g., 10, 20). Defaults to 10 |
| Parameter | Type | Description |
|---|
results | array | Array of search results |
↳ title | string | Title of the search result |
↳ url | string | URL of the search result |
↳ description | string | Snippet or description of the result |
↳ rank | number | Position in search results |
query | string | The search query that was executed |
searchEngine | string | The search engine that was used |
AI-powered web discovery that finds and ranks results by intent. Returns up to 20 results with optional cleaned page content for RAG and verification.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|
apiKey | string | Yes | Bright Data API token |
query | string | Yes | The search query (e.g., "competitor pricing changes enterprise plan") |
numResults | number | No | Number of results to return (1-20). Defaults to 10 |
mode | string | No | Search depth and ranking mode: "standard" (balanced), "deep" (exhaustive, broader search), "fast" (optimized for speed), or "zeroRanking" (raw volume without AI filtering). Defaults to "standard" |
intent | string | No | Describes what the agent is trying to accomplish, used to rank results by relevance (e.g., "find official pricing pages and change notes") |
includeContent | boolean | No | Whether to include cleaned page content in results |
format | string | No | Response format: "json" or "md". Defaults to "json" |
language | string | No | Search language code (e.g., "en", "es", "fr"). Defaults to "en" |
country | string | No | Two-letter ISO country code for localized results (e.g., "us", "gb") |
| Parameter | Type | Description |
|---|
results | array | Array of discovered web results ranked by intent relevance |
↳ url | string | URL of the discovered page |
↳ title | string | Page title |
↳ description | string | Page description or snippet |
↳ relevanceScore | number | AI-calculated relevance score for intent-based ranking |
↳ content | string | Cleaned page content in the requested format (when includeContent is true) |
query | string | The search query that was executed |
totalResults | number | Total number of results returned |
Scrape URLs synchronously using a Bright Data pre-built scraper and get structured results directly. Supports up to 20 URLs with a 1-minute timeout.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|
apiKey | string | Yes | Bright Data API token |
datasetId | string | Yes | Dataset scraper ID from your Bright Data dashboard (e.g., "gd_l1viktl72bvl7bjuj0") |
urls | string | Yes | JSON array of URL objects to scrape, up to 20 (e.g., [{"url": "https://example.com/product"\}\]\) |
format | string | No | Output format: "json", "ndjson", or "csv". Defaults to "json" |
includeErrors | boolean | No | Whether to include error reports in results |
| Parameter | Type | Description |
|---|
data | array | Array of scraped result objects with fields specific to the dataset scraper used |
snapshotId | string | Snapshot ID returned if the request exceeded the 1-minute timeout and switched to async processing |
isAsync | boolean | Whether the request fell back to async mode (true means use snapshot ID to retrieve results) |
Trigger a Bright Data pre-built scraper to extract structured data from URLs. Supports 660+ scrapers for platforms like Amazon, LinkedIn, Instagram, and more.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|
apiKey | string | Yes | Bright Data API token |
datasetId | string | Yes | Dataset scraper ID from your Bright Data dashboard (e.g., "gd_l1viktl72bvl7bjuj0") |
urls | string | Yes | JSON array of URL objects to scrape (e.g., [{"url": "https://example.com/product"\}\]\) |
format | string | No | Output format: "json" or "csv". Defaults to "json" |
includeErrors | boolean | No | Whether to include a per-input error report in the results |
| Parameter | Type | Description |
|---|
snapshotId | string | The snapshot ID to retrieve results later |
status | string | Status of the scraping job (e.g., "triggered", "running") |
Check the progress of an async Bright Data scraping job. Returns status: starting, running, ready, or failed.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|
apiKey | string | Yes | Bright Data API token |
snapshotId | string | Yes | The snapshot ID returned when the collection was triggered (e.g., "s_m4x7enmven8djfqak") |
| Parameter | Type | Description |
|---|
snapshotId | string | The snapshot ID that was queried |
datasetId | string | The dataset ID associated with this snapshot |
status | string | Current status of the snapshot: "starting", "running", "ready", or "failed" |
Download the results of a completed Bright Data scraping job using its snapshot ID. The snapshot must have ready status.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|
apiKey | string | Yes | Bright Data API token |
snapshotId | string | Yes | The snapshot ID returned when the collection was triggered (e.g., "s_m4x7enmven8djfqak") |
format | string | No | Output format: "json", "ndjson", "jsonl", or "csv". Defaults to "json" |
compress | boolean | No | Whether to compress the results |
| Parameter | Type | Description |
|---|
data | array | Array of scraped result records |
format | string | The content type of the downloaded data |
snapshotId | string | The snapshot ID that was downloaded |
Cancel an active Bright Data scraping job using its snapshot ID. Terminates data collection in progress.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|
apiKey | string | Yes | Bright Data API token |
snapshotId | string | Yes | The snapshot ID of the collection to cancel (e.g., "s_m4x7enmven8djfqak") |
| Parameter | Type | Description |
|---|
snapshotId | string | The snapshot ID that was cancelled |
cancelled | boolean | Whether the cancellation was successful |