# brightdata-mcp MCP Server

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

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## Status

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## Connect

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
- MCP event logs show `status: success` for all `scrape_as_markdown` requests
- `Tokens Used: 0` for all requests
- `URL` column is empty in event logs
- Requests never return content to the client (Claude Code in my case)
- Client times out waiting for response

### Event Log Evidence
```csv
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](https://github.com/brightdata/brightdata-mcp/issues/46) · 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](https://github.com/brightdata/brightdata-mcp/issues/43) · 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

- Exist

[Read the thread](https://github.com/brightdata/brightdata-mcp/issues/167) · 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](https://mcpsafe.io) — 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](https://github.com/brightdata/brightdata-mcp/issues/137) · 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](https://github.com/brightdata/brightdata-mcp/issues/136) · 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:

- `scrape_batch` -- bulk scraping across many URLs (high cost per operation)
- `scraping_browser_click_ref` -- browser automation on live sites
- Browser session tools -- interact with authenticated sites
- Web data API tools -- structured data extraction at scale

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

[Read the thread](https://github.com/brightdata/brightdata-mcp/issues/132) · 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](https://github.com/brightdata/brightdata-mcp/issues/131) · 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](https://github.com/brightdata/brightdata-mcp/issues/126) · 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](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8r9q-7v3j-jr4g)
2. **Cross-client data leak** via shared server/transport instance reuse - [GHSA-345p-7cg4-v4c7](https://github.com/advisories/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](https://github.com/brightdata/brightdata-mcp/issues/123) · 2026-03-28 · closed · external user · 1 comment

[See all 23 reports Pod holds for brightdata-mcp](/mcp/brightdata-mcp/issues) — of 45 qualified upstream.

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