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brightdata-mcp MCP Server

Bright Data's Web MCP server enabling AI agents to search, extract & navigate the web

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Published as @brightdata/mcp on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

45 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

Most discussed

Remote MCP (mcp.brightdata.com) returns empty results while showing "success" in event logs

Similar to #69, but affecting the remote MCP (mcp.brightdata.com/mcp?token=...) rather than the local npx version.

Symptoms

Event Log Evidence

Date,Tool,Event,Client Name,URL,Status,Tokens Used
2026-02-02T11:10:14.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/brightdata/brightdata-mcp/issues/106) · 2026-02-02 · closed · external user · 7 comments

### I can't connect my the brightdata MCP to ChatGPT

I have tried to connect your MCP service to chatGPT on at least 10 occasions but I only get error messages in response (see attached images). 

<img width="1470" height="956" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/15ba6f5c-c8f5-4400-aa28-83f2f52f2445" />

<img width="1470" height="956" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b048719b-b3c4-4320-bf45-b56588d2480d" />

My account is listed under the following email: [mark.lewyn@gmail.com](mailto:mark.lewyn@g

[Read the thread](https://github.com/brightdata/brightdata-mcp/issues/72) · 2025-10-01 · closed · external user · 7 comments

### control over what search_engine returns?

the Bright Data api itself (which the mcp wraps) supports very granular (object-based) control over search_engine results. 
I understand that the go-to way to expose stuff to LLMs is markdown so you chose to expose the markdown as is. 
the thing is that the search_engine markdown is full of "trash": ads, "feedback", AI suggestions...
I don't want my agent to be exposed to all of that. I want it to get the results, and that's it.
any chance you could do a "sterile" search_engine, that returns onl

[Read the thread](https://github.com/brightdata/brightdata-mcp/issues/66) · 2025-09-04 · closed · external user · 5 comments

### Getting Snapshot is building, try again in 30s

I am getting **snapshot is building** in the response after few attempts and there is no way for me to wait till the snapshot is fully build. Could you please help me in handling this?

[web_data_crunchbase_company] executing {"url":"https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/zekith-india-private-limited"} [web_data_crunchbase_company] triggered collection with snapshot ID: s_mdzulo7o2opv5236pw [web_data_crunchbase_company] snapshot not ready, polling again (attempt 1/600) [web_data_crunchbase_

Read the thread · 2025-08-06 · closed · outside contributor · 9 comments

Amazon Product Search Failing - No Results Returned

Description: When attempting to use the web_data_amazon_product_search function, the tool returns "No result received from client-side tool execution" error. Steps to Reproduce:

Call the web_data_amazon_product_search function with the following parameters:

keyword: "glass cleaner" pages_to_search: "1" url: "https://www.amazon.com/"

The function returns an error instead of search results

Expected Behavior: The function should return a list of glass cleaner products from Amazon search result

Read the thread · 2025-07-29 · closed · external user · 28 comments

Most recent

search_engine_batch with Google engine returns raw HTML instead of JSON intermittently

Description

When using the MCP tool with , the response intermittently returns raw HTML instead of parsed JSON. This happens roughly 50% of the time.

Error

Unexpected non-JSON response from Bright Data for search_engine_batch

The error originates inside the compiled .mcpb bundle (), not in any downstream consumer. The bundle appears to pass through the raw Google SERP HTML when the underlying API returns a non-JSON response, without validating or retrying.

Related

Read the thread · 2026-08-24 · open · external user · 0 comments

Security scan results for brightdata-mcp — MCPSafe AIVSS 81/100 (Grade B)

Hi team 👋

I ran a free deep security scan of brightdata/brightdata-mcp using MCPSafe — a purpose-built scanner for MCP servers using a 5-LLM consensus panel to detect prompt injection risks, over-scoped tool schemas, supply chain issues, and more.

Results: 81/100 · Grade B

Severity Count
🔴 Critical 0
🟠 High 0
🟡 Medium 15
🟢 Low 0

Summary: 15 medium-severity findings around web data collection tool schemas and

Read the thread · 2026-05-12 · open · external user · 0 comments

Proposal: add a Perplexity Search MCP tool as an alternative search source

Hi Bright Data team — thanks for maintaining this MCP server! I'd like to propose adding a perplexity_search MCP tool that wraps Perplexity's Search API (POST https://api.perplexity.ai/search) as an alternative/complementary search source alongside search_engine.

Why

The current search_engine tool routes through Bright Data's SERP infrastructure, which is great for grounded SERP scraping. Perplexity's Search API is a different shape — it's a curated, ranked web index optimized for

Read the thread · 2026-04-29 · open · external user · 1 comment

Add policy enforcement to prevent runaway scraping costs

This server exposes 60+ tools including browser automation and batch scraping on a pay-per-use billing model:

An agent in a loop calling batch scraping tools can generate significant unexpected costs. Browser automation tools can int

Read the thread · 2026-04-12 · open · external user · 0 comments

Add country flag to scrape_as_markdown & scrape_as_html

Allow country flag for problematic sites that require a specific geo location.

Read the thread · 2026-04-06 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

[RFC] Agent-native payment gating for Bright Data MCP — pay-per-scrape via x402/MPP

What this proposes

Adding pay-per-call payment gating to Bright Data MCP so AI agents can pay for web data access directly — without requiring a human-managed Bright Data account for every deployment.

Bright Data already has per-request pricing. This extends that model to agent-native payments: agents pay per scrape/search via x402 (USDC on Base) or MPP (Stripe's Machine Payments Protocol), settled directly to the operator — no credit card, no monthly billing cycle, no human in the billing

Read the thread · 2026-03-31 · open · external user · 1 comment

Outdated @modelcontextprotocol/sdk (<=1.25.3) - 3 high severity vulnerabilities

Hi,

Running npm audit on @brightdata/mcp@2.9.2 reports 3 high severity vulnerabilities from @modelcontextprotocol/sdk@<=1.25.3:

  1. ReDoS vulnerability - GHSA-8r9q-7v3j-jr4g
  2. Cross-client data leak via shared server/transport instance reuse - GHSA-345p-7cg4-v4c7
  3. DNS rebinding not enabled by default - [GHSA-w48q-cv73-mx4w](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w48q-cv73-m

Read the thread · 2026-03-28 · closed · external user · 1 comment

See all 23 reports Pod holds for brightdata-mcp — of 45 qualified upstream.

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