Data Center Proxies

What do you like best about the product?

What I like best about Bright Data is the breadth of features and how powerful the platform is for large-scale web data collection. It offers a wide range of proxy options and data collection tools, which makes it really useful for many different research and development needs, especially for my research project where I need to extract privacy policies and webforms. Another great advantage is that it integrates well into technical workflows and gives a lot of flexibility for handling complex scraping or crawling tasks. I also appreciate that the customer support is responsive and helpful when problems come up. Overall, it is a feature-rich platform that is especially valuable for users who need reliability, scale, and strong integration options.

What do you dislike about the product?

Overall, I found there were almost no downsides. One area that could still be improved is adding a direct comparison chart or a simple decision guide to help new users choose the most suitable proxy or tool for their needs. That said, Bright Data’s documentation is already quite detailed and helpful.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

As an academic researcher working on usable security and online privacy, I often need to collect web data at scale in a reliable and efficient way. Bright Data helps address this challenge by making it easier to access public web data, manage proxy infrastructure, and handle issues such as blocking, rate limits, and large-scale crawling. This saves me a great deal of time and effort that would otherwise be spent building and maintaining the infrastructure myself, dealing with CAPTCHAs and website blocking, and debugging integration issues. As a result, I can spend more time focusing on the actual research and analysis instead of the operational side of data collection.

What do you like best about the product?

The setup seemed extremely simple, and creating what I needed took much less time than I initially thought.
And the customer support rep Omri Roter, replied to my ticket really quick with very precise instructions on what I was doing wrong.

What do you dislike about the product?

The documentation seemed a bit hard to understand at first, a more comprehensive guide could have helped more.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helped me build scrapers for websites that seemed near impossible to build in code without some extreme level of knowledge in the subject.

What do you like best about the product?

Bright Data feels like a big step forward for non-technical users. I’m genuinely proud of what I managed to do: even though I come from a media production background, Bright Data helped me set up monitoring and scraping for posts from 100 influencers I follow. That setup lets me analyze their content and repurpose it for my own audience.

What really stands out is that it works across platforms you can’t simply dump into ChatGPT in bulk. If you try to pull even a handful of links, you can get blocked. With Bright Data’s proxy and scraping infrastructure, though, it’s actually doable.

What do you dislike about the product?

Over the past year, some really convenient AI features have emerged for creating scraping setups from just a single URL, and it’s genuinely powerful. That said, I’d appreciate a bit more flexibility up front—specifically, the ability to specify exactly what data I want to extract from posts right away, rather than waiting for the scraper code to be generated and then immediately having to ask the AI agent for changes.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Bright Data to scrape thousands of posts each month from hundreds of influencers I follow across 10 different social networks.

What do you like best about the product?

It was the only solution we found that handled all of our needs.

What do you dislike about the product?

At this time, there is nothing in my interaction or experience working with Bright Data that I dislike.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

We needed a data-driven solution for our property management business software that was unavailable anywhere else on the internet.

What do you like best about the product?

I really like Bright Data's very efficient support and how easy and straightforward the initial setup was. The availability of datasets is something I value a lot.

What do you dislike about the product?

It is all fine. Maybe a tutorial on data scraping with some hands-on sessions.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Bright Data for teaching and my students' MSc thesis, and it solves dataset issues efficiently.