brightdata-web-mcp

brightdata-web-mcp is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from patchy631/ai-engineering-hub. It costs 62 tokens per session (2,300 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A web-access tool built on Bright Data Web MCP for searching pages, scraping their contents, extracting structured information, and controlling browsers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search the web, turn pages into Markdown, collect fields such as product prices, scrape multiple URLs, or automate dynamic websites.
Why use it?
It helps when websites use JavaScript, block ordinary requests, or require handling anti-bot checks and CAPTCHAs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the hugging-face-skills plugin — 8 skills, 1 agent, 1 plugin shipped together

About the project

AI Engineering Hub is a learning and project repository covering large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, AI agents, and related applications. Beginners, practitioners, and researchers use its tutorials and projects to learn AI engineering and build working systems. The catalogue entries are examples of the skills, plugins, and agent resources included with it.

patchy631/ai-engineering-hub · 37,331 stars · on GitHub · join.dailydoseofds.com

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/patchy631/ai-engineering-hub/brightdata-web-mcp
Any agent
npx skills add patchy631/ai-engineering-hub --skill brightdata-web-mcp
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/patchy631/ai-engineering-hub

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install hugging-face-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 1 agent, 1 plugin.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for brightdata-web-mcp

README.md
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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,300 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00062 $0.02300
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.01150
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00460
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00230

Measured 6d ago against content hash cf5de1f6b569, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brightdata-web-mcp scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

hugging-face-skills/skills/brightdata-web-mcp/SKILL.md · 242 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 242 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Bright Data Web MCP

Use this skill for reliable web access in MCP-compatible agents. Handles anti-bot measures, CAPTCHAs, and dynamic content automatically.

Quick Start

Search the web

Tool: search_engine
Input: { "query": "latest AI news", "engine": "google" }

Returns JSON for Google, Markdown for Bing/Yandex. Use cursor parameter for pagination.

Scrape a page to Markdown

Tool: scrape_as_markdown
Input: { "url": "https://example.com/article" }

Extract structured data (Pro/advanced_scraping)

Tool: extract
Input: { 
  "url": "https://example.com/product",
  "prompt": "Extract: name, price, description, availability"
}

When to Use

Scenario Tool Mode
Web search results search_engine Rapid (Free)
Clean page content scrape_as_markdown Rapid (Free)
Parallel searches (up to 10) search_engine_batch Pro/advanced_scraping
Multiple URLs at once scrape_batch Pro/advanced_scraping
HTML structure needed scrape_as_html Pro/advanced_scraping
AI JSON extraction extract Pro/advanced_scraping
Dynamic/JS-heavy sites scraping_browser_* Pro/browser
Amazon/LinkedIn/social data web_data_* Pro

Setup

Remote (recommended) - No installation required:

SSE Endpoint:

https://mcp.brightdata.com/sse?token=YOUR_API_TOKEN

Streamable HTTP Endpoint:

https://mcp.brightdata.com/mcp?token=YOUR_API_TOKEN

Local:

API_TOKEN=<token> npx @brightdata/mcp

Modes & Configuration

Rapid Mode (Free - Default)

  • 5,000 requests/month free
  • Tools: search_engine, scrape_as_markdown

Pro Mode

  • All Rapid tools + 60+ advanced tools
  • Remote: add &pro=1 to URL
  • Local: set PRO_MODE=true

Tool Groups

Select specific tool bundles instead of all Pro tools:

  • Remote: &groups=ecommerce,social
  • Local: GROUPS=ecommerce,social

Read the full file on GitHub · 242 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 242 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A cf5de1f6b569

Subscribe to this mod's changes

brightdata-web-mcp is a skill published in the GitHub repository patchy631/ai-engineering-hub (37,331 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 2,300 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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