This plugin brings Bright Data's powerful web infrastructure directly into Claude Code, enabling AI agents to:
$git clone https://github.com/brightdata/skillsInstalls into the current project.
Install skills by running `git clone https://github.com/brightdata/skills`, then use it for the current task and follow its documentation at https://github.com/brightdata/skills.
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| 5 | <h1 align="center">Bright Data Plugin for Claude Code</h1> |
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| 7 | <p align="center"> |
| 8 | <strong>Unlock the web with AI-powered scraping, search, and structured data</strong> |
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| 12 | <a href="https://brightdata.com"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Powered%20by-Bright%20Data-3D7FFC?style=for-the-badge" alt="Powered by Bright Data"></a> |
| 13 | <a href="#license"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-10b981?style=for-the-badge" alt="MIT License"></a> |
| 14 | <a href="#skills"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Skills-21-9D97F4?style=for-the-badge" alt="21 Skills"></a> |
| 15 | <a href="#data-feeds-skill"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Datasets-40+-15C1E6?style=for-the-badge" alt="40+ Datasets"></a> |
| 16 | <a href="#bright-data-mcp-skill"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/MCP_Tools-60+-FF6B35?style=for-the-badge" alt="60+ MCP Tools"></a> |
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| 20 | <a href="#-quick-start">Quick Start</a> • |
| 21 | <a href="#-skills">Skills</a> • |
| 22 | <a href="#agent-onboarding-skill">Agent Onboarding</a> • |
| 23 | <a href="#-data-feeds">Data Feeds</a> • |
| 24 | <a href="#bright-data-mcp-skill">MCP</a> • |
| 25 | <a href="#brightdata-cli-skill">CLI</a> • |
| 26 | <a href="#competitive-intel-skill">Competitive Intel</a> • |
| 27 | <a href="#scraper-builder-skill">Scraper Builder</a> • |
| 28 | <a href="#scraper-studio-skill">Scraper Studio</a> • |
| 29 | <a href="#proxy-skill">Proxy</a> • |
| 30 | <a href="#best-practices-skill">Best Practices</a> • |
| 31 | <a href="#python-sdk-best-practices-skill">Python SDK</a> • |
| 32 | <a href="#javascript-sdk-best-practices-skill">JavaScript SDK</a> • |
| 33 | <a href="#discover-api-skill">Discover API</a> • |
| 34 | <a href="#live-research-skill">Live Research</a> • |
| 35 | <a href="#rag-pipeline-skill">RAG Pipeline</a> • |
| 36 | <a href="#-setup">Setup</a> • |
| 37 | <a href="#-examples">Examples</a> |
| 38 | </p> |
| 39 | |
| 40 | --- |
| 41 | |
| 42 | ## Overview |
| 43 | |
| 44 | This plugin brings **Bright Data's powerful web infrastructure** directly into Claude Code, enabling AI agents to: |
| 45 | |
| 46 | - **Scrape any webpage** as clean markdown — bypassing bot detection, CAPTCHAs, and JavaScript rendering |
| 47 | - **Search Google** with structured JSON results — titles, links, and descriptions ready for processing |
| 48 | - **Extract structured data** from 40+ websites — Amazon, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and more |
| 49 | - **Orchestrate 60+ MCP tools** — search, scrape, extract structured data, and automate browsers via Bright Data's MCP server |
| 50 | - **Use the Bright Data CLI** — scrape, search, extract data, manage zones, and check budget directly from the terminal with `brightdata` / `bdata` |
| 51 | - **Run competitive intelligence** — real-time competitor analysis, pricing monitoring, review mining, hiring signal analysis, and market landscape mapping using live web data |
| 52 | - **Write correct Bright Data code** — built-in best practices for Web Unlocker, SERP API, Web Scraper API, and Browser API |
| 53 | - **Route requests through proxies** — generate working code for Datacenter, ISP, Residential, and Mobile proxy networks, with the right network, IP pool type, targeting, and SSL setup |
| 54 | - **Build with the Python SDK** — comprehensive guide for the `brightdata-sdk` package with patterns for async/sync clients, platform scrapers, SERP, datasets, and more |
| 55 | - **Build with the JavaScript/TypeScript SDK** — comprehensive guide for the `@brightdata/sdk` package (`bdclient`) with patterns for web unlocker, platform scrapers, SERP, discover, datasets, browser automation, and Scraper Studio |
| 56 | - **Run the Discover API** — intent-ranked, AI-relevance-scored semantic web search with parsed page content, across REST/CLI/SDK (the foundation for research and RAG) |
| 57 | - **Produce live research briefs** — decompose a question into multi-angle Discover queries, dedup and rank by relevance, and synthesize a cited report from live web data |
| 58 | - **Build RAG / search-engine pipelines** — use Discover as the retrieval layer for an LLM, via live web-grounded retrieval or vector-store ingestion |
| 59 | |
| 60 | Built on Bright Data's [Web Unlocker](https://brightdata.com/products/web-unlocker), [SERP API](https://brightdata.com/products/serp-api), and [Web Data APIs](https://brightdata.com/products/web-scraper), this plugin handles the complexity of web access so your AI agents can focus on what matters. |
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| 62 | --- |
| 63 | |
| 64 | ## Skills |
| 65 | |
| 66 | | Skill | Description | |
| 67 | |-------|-------------| |
| 68 | | **`agent-onboarding`** | Entry point for agents new to Bright Data — one install command, then routes to the right path: live CLI tools, app integration, MCP server, auth-only, or REST without installing | |
| 69 | | **`search`** | Search Google and get structured JSON results with titles, links, and descriptions | |
| 70 | | **`scrape`** | Scrape any webpage as clean markdown with automatic bot detection bypass | |
| 71 | | **`data-feeds`** | Extract structured data from 40+ websites with automatic polling | |
| 72 | | **`bright-data-mcp`** | Orchestrate 60+ Bright Data MCP tools for search, scraping, structured ext |