bright-data-best-practices
Build production-ready Bright Data integrations with best practices baked in. Reference documentation for developers using coding assistants (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) to implement web scraping, search, browser automation, and structured data extraction. Covers Web Unlocker API, SERP API, Web Scraper API, and Browser API (Scraping Browser).
Install
With your agent
Install OMGSkills skill "brightdata/skills:bright-data-best-practices" into this agent's normal skills directory: call the OMGSkills MCP get_install_plan tool for your agent and run the script it returns (it installs only the pinned commit and verifies SKILL.md), and stop if MCP or the pin is unavailable. Do not overwrite or change existing skills without asking me.
Manual command
git clone https://github.com/brightdata/skills /tmp/skills && ln -s /tmp/skills/skills/bright-data-best-practices ~/.claude/skills/bright-data-best-practicesFrom README
CLI Reference , authentication, and troubleshooting for the Bright Data CLI (bdata) are documented in a single canonical place: → references/cli- .md Consult it before any task that shells out to bdata. Bright Data APIs Bright Data provides infrastructure for web data extraction at scale. Four primary APIs cover different use cases — always pick the most specific tool for the job. Choosing the Right API | Use Case | API | Why | |----------|-----|-----| | Scrape any webpage by URL (no interaction) | Web Unlocker | HTTP-based, auto-bypasses bot detection, cheapest | | Google / Bing / Yandex search results | SERP API | Specialized for SERP extraction, returns structured data | | Structured data from Amazon, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, etc.
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