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We finally got our data collection under control
What do you like best about the product?
High quality and scalable data collection is what Bright Data brings the table. Its proxy network is so robust that using it to bypass geo restrictions is more than seamless. For instance, if a website you want to scrape is accessible only in a given country, Bright Data is an excellent choice. Another standout piece is the integration features that the tool has – they are easy to integrate with several tools and platforms.
What do you dislike about the product?
While it’s priced a bit steep for small businesses or individual use users. It would be nice if we could get something other pricing tiers or discounts if it’s for long term. Further, some of the more advanced features are steep to learn. The basic functionalities are easy to use, but customizing the deeper options takes some bit of time. However, the documentation is fortunately quite comprehensive, but could use some more beginner friendly tutorials.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Before using Bright Data, the process of gathering data from various sources was tedious and time consuming. I had to manually setup proxies and get frequently IP banned. Bright Data is all in order now. With the automated proxy management, data collection does not go into hiatus. It is not only made my life easier because it has made my productivity much better, it has helped me better concentrate to analyze the data instead of thinking about technical issues.
=Strong features but weak documentation
What do you like best about the product?
Provide strong features. It really helps collecting data.
In-time customer support. Big thanks to Adam Rashbi Izrailov for his expertise and patience!
In-time customer support. Big thanks to Adam Rashbi Izrailov for his expertise and patience!
What do you dislike about the product?
1. Some document is outdated like the best practice section, wait_any() can't set timeout, the advanced usage of wait() for multiple elements.
2. The document is insufficient to help developers to solve complicated cases like collecting data from multiple stages. Looks like it can only run all the stages serially. There is no way to collect the data of all the children stages in the root stage.
3. Not easy to debug for multiple stages. The only way to test multiple stages is Initiate Mannually. But it doesn't provide any run logs.
4. Can't jump to output schema in the Code editor page.
5. Not easy to check the mismatched part between the result and output schema.
6. Not able to detect captcha automatically as described in the document. It needs to check the captcha object manually for sometime.
2. The document is insufficient to help developers to solve complicated cases like collecting data from multiple stages. Looks like it can only run all the stages serially. There is no way to collect the data of all the children stages in the root stage.
3. Not easy to debug for multiple stages. The only way to test multiple stages is Initiate Mannually. But it doesn't provide any run logs.
4. Can't jump to output schema in the Code editor page.
5. Not easy to check the mismatched part between the result and output schema.
6. Not able to detect captcha automatically as described in the document. It needs to check the captcha object manually for sometime.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Collecting data.
Provided support in Web Scraper IDE
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of Use and Implementation, a bit of documentation, and their work with non-profits
What do you dislike about the product?
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What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Bright Data is helping us solve the challenging task of identifying viable resource agencies for survivors of human trafficking
Reliable proxy network with flexible options
What do you like best about the product?
What I like most in Bright Data is stable of its proxy network that helps us collect data that we need without interruptions. Access can thus be retrieved consistently, and the firewall which enables this, ensures that automatic IP rotation to keep moving to a new IP address. Residential and mobile proxies come in different variety for different data gaining necessities. I also consider their commitment to ethical practices to make sure we continue complying. When speed is the main thing, their pre organized data sets are perfect.
What do you dislike about the product?
The main drawback of Bright Data is the cost, especially for high traffic project. Usage of proxy can increase quickly and some features are locked to more expensive tiers. The service is reliable but some sites will still detect and block you from accessing them. Unfortunately, the dashboard is clunky packed features at first. Also, it takes a bit of trial and error to set up the right configurations, however, this can slow down first workflows.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Being able to access publicly available information has made competitive research much more efficient with Bright Data. This means we can obtain data in hours in the fraction of the time it would’ve taken before. Having the ability to source pricing for product, the sentiment of our customer, and industry trends has massively affected our business strategy. It also ensures that ethical data collection is complied with, which is largely important for trust building. This has freed up time for more in depth analysis of the information.
Extremely Disappointed – Unprofessional and Poor Communication
What do you like best about the product?
Nothing, absolutely nothing. Wasting my time only.
What do you dislike about the product?
I had an incredibly frustrating experience with Bright Data. I was flagged for no reason whatsoever, despite not even having used the service. To make matters worse, a scheduled Google Meet was canceled without any prior notice or explanation.
This level of mismanagement and lack of communication is completely unacceptable. If this is how they handle basic coordination, I can’t imagine how they deal with more important matters. I would not recommend relying on them if you expect professionalism and accountability.
Avoid if you value your time.
This level of mismanagement and lack of communication is completely unacceptable. If this is how they handle basic coordination, I can’t imagine how they deal with more important matters. I would not recommend relying on them if you expect professionalism and accountability.
Avoid if you value your time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Absolutely not solving anything.
A user friendly tool with a responsive support team
What do you like best about the product?
One great aspect of Bright Data is the variety of data collection options it offer. There are a marketplace for existing datasets, a scraper API, and the IDE scraper, providing significant flexibility for our data collection tasks. I’m also impressed by their support team. No matter it’s a billing issue or a technical problem, they respond and resolve things quickly.
What do you dislike about the product?
It takes some time to get familiar with the IDE scraper, but overall I’m satisfied given its effectiveness.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have specific data to collect for research purposes, and due to the large volume, we need a more structured framework to support the data collection process.
Best dataset marketplace platform out there.
What do you like best about the product?
Bright Data is one of the best dataset marketplace available. The BD team is suoer helpful and the data is amazing. API and dashboard are both user friendly and intuitive.
What do you dislike about the product?
One thing which can be improved, although it way above others is, its documentation of dataset marketplace in terms of usage, filter etc.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Bright data has ready to use dataset, which earlier, took a lot of time for us to scrape and extract.
Reliable way to collect structured market insights
What do you like best about the product?
Regarding how Bright Data effectively extracts structured details from several sources, that’s one of the best features. It helps us to keep an eye on competitor pricing and fluctuations of the inventory, gaining a clearer view of industry trends. This saves the time of collecting information manually and helps us to focus on analysis. One of the advantages is that it permits making changes of search parameters each time required, so that the information collected stays important and actually contemporary.
What do you dislike about the product?
The downside of Bright Data is that request completion is not always consistent. The system is usually reliable, but there are times it gets interrupted so there needs to be some adjustment, and it delays progress a little. It also suffers from the disadvantage of cost variability whereby charge is dependent on the number of requests made. It needs careful tracking of usage to not exceed the budget. The service is useful but comes with an additional effort to optimize the process in terms of efficiency with minimum expenditure.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Bright Data has changed how we obtained market insights from what was a slow, manual process. Instead of wasting hours amassing info and sources, now we get the data structured that aids us in taking quicker business decisions. This gave us more ability to monitor competitor behaviour, alter pricing strategies and respond to changes in demand. Because we have been able to reduce the manual research, we have been able to spend more time doing with insights, rather than gathering them.
The tool I needed !
What do you like best about the product?
Very powerful, easy to use, fast and efficient support, very flexible billing method
What do you dislike about the product?
I would appreciate the creation of online community
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Removes the blocking for accepting cookies and provides many configuration possibilities, while avoiding blockings
This software transformed our approach to data extraction
What do you like best about the product?
The data collection automation features of Bright Data represent the best available solution as manual data collection proves to be very labor-intensive. The system enables the extraction of data from multiple online resources automatically without requiring continuous human interaction. The automation feature has created free time for our main operational work. The collected data achieved high reliability and consistency which became sufficient for making decisions along with tracking market trends.
What do you dislike about the product?
Bright Data provides access to most sites but our team has encountered restricted access to specific websites. Data scraping operations encounter active website restrictions that prevent our process from functioning. Your time will be diverted to handle issues along with finding workarounds to deal with them. The process becomes an additional difficulty that reduces software efficiency because of its unnecessary nature.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The data collection problem has been resolved through Bright Data solutions which eliminate slow and unproductive processes. The implementation of Bright Data eliminated our previous need to manually gather data from multiple sources because it established an efficient system that retrieves the required data quickly and precisely. The tool has freed up several hours of logistical work which allowed us to dedicate those hours into developing our strategic approach. The efficiency enhancement through Bright Data resulted in substantial productivity growth while decision making relies on real-time factual information.
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