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Quick and smooth
What do you like best about the product?
Simplicity of use and effective support.
Thanks again to Jack Yurkanin for his professionalism and prompt assistance.
Thanks again to Jack Yurkanin for his professionalism and prompt assistance.
What do you dislike about the product?
In the user guides, I would like to see more templates with detailed examples.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The scraping of the Google SERP.
Bright Data Delivers Beyond Expectations
What do you like best about the product?
There are countless great things about Bright Data. Namely, the proxies are simple to use and integrate seamlessly into Python code. In addition, Bright Data provides extensive documentation for setting up and using each of their proxy offerings. The BrightAI chat is incredibly helpful with answering technical questions.
What do you dislike about the product?
Everything is seamless and easy to use, leaving nothing to dislike.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our research team has developed a tool that mimics end users to automate queries of ISP interfaces and extract advertised broadband availability, speed tiers, and pricing data at street-address granularity. To avoid originating all queries from a single non-residential IP address, we leverage a pool of IPs provided by Bright Initiative—the non-profit branch of Bright Data that supports academic and nonprofit projects with free access to data scraping tools. However, the initial version of this tool lacked robustness and extensibility: it frequently broke when ISPs updated their websites and required significant manual effort to integrate new ISPs.
To address these limitations, we built an ML-based data collection platform that queries ISP web interfaces using residential street addresses and extracts data on service availability, quality, and pricing. Bright Data’s pro-bono credits have been instrumental in this effort, enabling us to incorporate new ISPs into the framework and test the system at scale by running large volumes of address queries. BQT+ has already been applied in several policy evaluation studies, including an independent assessment of broadband availability, quality, and affordability in areas targeted by the $42.45 billion BEAD program.
Bright Data’s proxy infrastructure—especially its Web Unlocker—has been critical to scaling up data collection. Without it, we could not reliably run queries at scale on ISP websites protected by CAPTCHAs, many of which present captcha challenges that the Web Unlocker helps circumvent.
To address these limitations, we built an ML-based data collection platform that queries ISP web interfaces using residential street addresses and extracts data on service availability, quality, and pricing. Bright Data’s pro-bono credits have been instrumental in this effort, enabling us to incorporate new ISPs into the framework and test the system at scale by running large volumes of address queries. BQT+ has already been applied in several policy evaluation studies, including an independent assessment of broadband availability, quality, and affordability in areas targeted by the $42.45 billion BEAD program.
Bright Data’s proxy infrastructure—especially its Web Unlocker—has been critical to scaling up data collection. Without it, we could not reliably run queries at scale on ISP websites protected by CAPTCHAs, many of which present captcha challenges that the Web Unlocker helps circumvent.
good and stable product, good service
What do you like best about the product?
They give you a bunch of solutions, countries and all kind of proxies you can choose from and configure your solution accordingly. Also, they have a good service that will help yo configure investigate and solve issues that you ran into
What do you dislike about the product?
although they did gave me a good service eventually, it took them almost a day to answer my question and go live on zoom with me. Not sure whose fault that was, but my production was influenced by the proxy issue i had and waiting a day to get a response was not that nice (once they wrote me back - we immediately took care of it with professionally and kindly)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Im using scraping data as part of my solution, and im using bright data proxy service
A Real Contributor
What do you like best about the product?
I truly appreciate the user-friendly interface and platform. It's incredibly easy to work with, and the team consistently introduces new features and innovations to meet evolving needs and enhance the user experience.
The customer service is excellent. The account managers are not only helpful and polite but are also committed to quickly and effectively solving any issues that arise. The datasets themselves are rich and fascinating, offering a great deal of value.
The customer service is excellent. The account managers are not only helpful and polite but are also committed to quickly and effectively solving any issues that arise. The datasets themselves are rich and fascinating, offering a great deal of value.
What do you dislike about the product?
My main frustrations are with the platform's session management. The timeout period for a session is quite short, which can be inconvenient. Additionally, logging into the platform using a code doesn't always work smoothly or reliably.
Like with any web-based platform, occasional bugs appear in datasets and their exports, as well as in the purchasing process. However, these issues are usually resolved by simply updating the browser session.
Like with any web-based platform, occasional bugs appear in datasets and their exports, as well as in the purchasing process. However, these issues are usually resolved by simply updating the browser session.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Bright Data provides rich and relevant data that is essential for my daily work, where I verify data I collect on individuals and companies for research, focuses on ecosystem development, and I use the data to study trends and changes.
An excellent way to obtain data for research
What do you like best about the product?
I used one of their prepared datasets through their academic collaboration program (Bright Initiative).
It was easy to find the dataset in their catalog, understand its format, figure out how to query for the right cut of the data that I needed, and finally to download it.
Overall, it's an excellent way to obtain publicly available data, without having to worry about crawling, formatting, etc.
It was easy to find the dataset in their catalog, understand its format, figure out how to query for the right cut of the data that I needed, and finally to download it.
Overall, it's an excellent way to obtain publicly available data, without having to worry about crawling, formatting, etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing really major, but it's important to realize that it's better to download a larger dataset than several smaller ones, as the pricing isn't entirely linear.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use data for my research, and it is difficult to collect these data by myself.
We use BD in our thetruestory.news aggregator to extract content from some crucial media outlets
What do you like best about the product?
It works well and it is easy to start using it
What do you dislike about the product?
Some features were too complicated to understand if they were present or not.
The company's staff was very helpful, so maybe it was my fault
The company's staff was very helpful, so maybe it was my fault
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were able to parse some important news outlets that were otherwise not accessible
A great product with excellent support
What do you like best about the product?
We've written many spiders, but after using BD for the past year on a few sites, we will choose them whenever it is possible to extract the data we need using their service.
We've run into a variety of issues over that year and they have all been addressed - most of them promptly. Enhancements to the extracted data or to the scope of data to be extracted have also been implemented. The service is at least as reliable as the spiders we've built ourselves and using BD is both faster and more cost efficient.
We've run into a variety of issues over that year and they have all been addressed - most of them promptly. Enhancements to the extracted data or to the scope of data to be extracted have also been implemented. The service is at least as reliable as the spiders we've built ourselves and using BD is both faster and more cost efficient.
What do you dislike about the product?
On my most recent problem reports, the fixes took about 9 days, which is a little longer than we'd like. In this case we were able to work around it with our customer, but if we could keep that down to a few days in the future, it would cause us less discomfort.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use BD to extract our customers data from their accounts on various ecommerce sites (eBay, Etsy, etc).
Managed Scraper Infrastructure that Just WORK!
What do you like best about the product?
Bright Data provides APIs and infrastructure that simplify building modern webscrapers. They've already thought through proxys, CAPTCHAs, browser fingerprinting... all of the things that are time consuming and a major hassle to build and maintain yourself. Their team is wonderful to work with, super responsive, and helped us get our code adapted to their API in short order. In a matter of hours, we were able to deploy a dramatically improved workflow and data collection process, all without having to build and maintain dozens of different packages or plugins!
What do you dislike about the product?
We have yet to encounter a downside to working with Bright Data. It has far surpassed our expectations. The only regret our team has is waiting so long to give their platform a try!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We rely on publicly available US government data to provide insights and analysis on immigration court for asylum seekers across the country. This data changes regularly and requires individual scrapes for each case we are tracking. Bright Data helps automate the scraping process by providing all of the needed infrastructure for modern web scraping in a single API.
Really really good customer support
What do you like best about the product?
Was working on the API for tiktok scrapper and was having some issues. Opened up a support ticket and within in about 2 hours was able to solve issue with the team. They were super professional and was extremly polite ( something lacking in tech support these days )
What do you dislike about the product?
No issue so far. All of their services seems to work as advertised
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data extraction on social media was really difficult for us - brigthdatas scrapers helped massively
Ethical - web data and proxy platform (GDPR and CCPA)
What do you like best about the product?
Bright Data delivers a robust, all-in-one platform for web data extraction, proxy management, and automated scraping at scale. The infrastructure supports over 150 million proxy IPs from 195 countries, offering extensive geo-targeting, session management, and rotation options.
The Web Scraper API and Scraping Browser provide programmatic and no-code access to structured web data, with built-in AI algorithms for data cleaning and structuring. The Web Unlocker tool effectively bypasses anti-bot mechanisms, ensuring high success rates even on challenging websites. Serverless functions and ready-made templates streamline the setup for common scraping tasks, reducing engineering overhead.
Bright Data maintains a strong focus on ethical and compliant data collection, with transparent consent processes for residential proxies and robust compliance with GDPR and CCPA regulations. The platform’s security and privacy measures, including ISO 27001 certification and proactive abuse prevention, are industry-leading.
The Web Scraper API and Scraping Browser provide programmatic and no-code access to structured web data, with built-in AI algorithms for data cleaning and structuring. The Web Unlocker tool effectively bypasses anti-bot mechanisms, ensuring high success rates even on challenging websites. Serverless functions and ready-made templates streamline the setup for common scraping tasks, reducing engineering overhead.
Bright Data maintains a strong focus on ethical and compliant data collection, with transparent consent processes for residential proxies and robust compliance with GDPR and CCPA regulations. The platform’s security and privacy measures, including ISO 27001 certification and proactive abuse prevention, are industry-leading.
What do you dislike about the product?
No negative factors or functions that I don't like
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Bright Data has enabled us to bypass complex bot protection mechanisms and access publicly available data at scale without building custom infrastructure from scratch. The ability to collect, clean, and analyze large datasets efficiently has accelerated our research and decision-making processes. For enterprise teams requiring granular control, reliability, and compliance, Bright Data stands out as a comprehensive solution for web data collection and analysis.
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