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Bright Data

Official MCP Paid, self-serve Data & Enrichment RESEARCHED Checked 2026-08-24
RESEARCHED Facts from public sources with URLs. No usage claims. Nobody has run this tool. The other tier is BENCH-TESTED, which means Andrew personally ran the tool on a stated date and cannot be bought at any price. Across the whole directory that count is 1.

Vendor: brightdata.com · entry id 01-bright-data · source 01-data-enrichment.md line 426

What it does
A general-purpose web-scraping/proxy infrastructure platform (residential proxies, browser automation, structured scraping APIs) that GTM engineers repurpose to pull LinkedIn, company-site, and directory data when off-the-shelf enrichment providers lack a record.
AI features, separated from automation with an AI label on it
The MCP server exposes scraping/browsing/search tools an LLM agent can call and chain; underlying page parsing uses pattern- and ML-based extraction, not a proprietary "enrichment AI" - Bright Data is fundamentally a scraping/proxy company wearing an agent-tooling wrapper.
RevOps role
Fallback/last-resort scraping layer in a waterfall enrichment stack, used when structured providers (ZoomInfo, PDL, Clearbit) return no match.
MCP server
Status bucket
Official MCP
Auth
api key (Bright Data API token)
Parsed URLs
1 found in the mcp_url field
Endpoint probe
repo or package: install and run locally
Probed
2026-09-04, HTTP 200

The vendor ships and maintains the server itself. A wrapper built by Zapier, Composio or a similar third party does not count as official. The status was established by hand on 2026-08-24. On 2026-09-04 the recorded URL was a reachable repository or package: a server you install and run on your own machine over stdio. Callable after an install, not a remote endpoint.

mcp_status, verbatim from the file:

official

mcp_url, verbatim from the file:

https://github.com/brightdata/brightdata-mcp

What this server exposes
Tools named
17
Strongest evidence
in the server source
Harvested
2026-09-27
Repo read
brightdata/brightdata-mcp
Whose repo
first-party
Catalogue shape
a fixed catalogue the vendor publishes

A tool below is one the server NAMES. Nobody has called it. That is the same two tier honesty rule the rest of the directory runs on: a named tool is research, and BENCH-TESTED stays the only claim that anybody ran anything.

  • discover
    Search the web and rank results by AI-driven relevance.
    evidence: in the server source · calling it reads
  • extract
    Scrape a webpage and extract structured data as JSON.
    evidence: in the server source · calling it reads
  • list_dataset_fields
    List the filterable fields of a searchable dataset
    evidence: in the server source · calling it reads
  • scrape_as_html
    Scrape a single webpage URL with advanced options for
    evidence: in the server source · calling it reads
  • scrape_as_markdown
    Scrape a single webpage URL with advanced options for
    evidence: in the server source · calling it reads
  • scrape_batch
    Scrape multiple webpages URLs with advanced options for
    evidence: in the server source · calling it reads
  • scraping_browser_get_html
    Get the HTML content of the current page. Avoid using this
    evidence: in the server source · calling it reads
  • scraping_browser_get_text
    Get the text content of the current page
    evidence: in the server source · calling it reads
  • scraping_browser_go_back
    Go back to the previous page
    evidence: in the server source · calling it reads
  • scraping_browser_go_forward
    Go forward to the next page
    evidence: in the server source · calling it reads
  • scraping_browser_navigate
    Navigate a scraping browser session to a new URL
    evidence: in the server source · calling it reads
  • scraping_browser_screenshot
    Take a screenshot of the current page
    evidence: in the server source · calling it reads
  • scraping_browser_scroll
    Scroll to the bottom of the current page
    evidence: in the server source · calling it reads
  • search_dataset
    Search a Bright Data dataset by a filter and get matching
    evidence: in the server source · calling it reads
  • search_engine
    Scrape search results from Google, Bing or Yandex. Returns
    evidence: in the server source · calling it reads
  • search_engine_batch
    Run multiple search queries simultaneously. Returns
    evidence: in the server source · calling it reads
  • session_stats
    Tell the user about the tool usage during this session
    evidence: in the server source · calling it reads

141 of the 741 entries that record an official or community MCP server carry a harvested tool list. The other 600 are unmeasured, which is not the same as empty. Harvest last run 2026-09-27. Every name across every server is on the tools index.

Command line

No CLI found by the 2026-09-27 harvest across vendor docs, npm, PyPI, Homebrew and GitHub. That is a probe result, not proof of absence.

Access gate
Gate bucket
Paid, self-serve
Can a solo operator reach it
Yes, by paying, no sales call

api_gate, verbatim from the file:

paid

API documentation

No documentation URL recorded.

727 of 1252 entries are in the same position. Blank is legal and it is published as blank.

GitHub health

Not measured. github_url, github_stars, github_last_commit and github_archived are null on every entry in this build.

The refresh rail specced in SPEC section 7.2 has not been run. An unstamped star count is a lie, so nothing is shown rather than something stale.

A github.com URL already appears somewhere in this entry, which is a seed for that rail and not a measurement of repo health:

On GitHub

github.com/brightdata tied to the vendor by rule 1, account website https://brightdata.com has the vendor's domain, confidence strong

Public repositories
62, forks excluded, as read on 2026-09-08
Mention MCP
7 of them
Look like CLIs
1 of them
Latest push
2026-09-07

The five most recently pushed, on 2026-09-08:

RepositoryKindDescriptionStarsPushedLatest release
cliCLIOfficial Bright Data CLI - scrape, search, and extract structured web data directly from your terminal.6,3652026-09-07v0.3.5
skillsother2572026-09-06
answer-engines-country-codesotherAnswer engine country codes32026-08-12
sdk-pythonSDKBright Data's python SDK, use it to call bright data's scrape and search tools. bypass any Bot-detection or Captcha and...912026-08-12v2.5.2
brightdata-mcpMCP serverA powerful Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides an all-in-one solution for public web access.2,6342026-08-12v2.11.1

Kind is a heuristic guessed from the repository name, topics and description, not a fact the vendor stated. A repository count is activity, not a verdict. Read 2026-09-08.

Jobs it can do

A job tag means the vendor says the tool does this. It is not a test result, not proof the capability is reachable through the tool's MCP server, and not proof it is available on the gate this entry records.

Tagged by machine-pass on 2026-08-25 against the closed 56 job vocabulary. 271 of 1,252 entries carry at least one tag; 849 tags are assigned in total.

Sources

3 source URLs. Raw sources field, verbatim:

https://github.com/brightdata/brightdata-mcp, https://mcpservers.org/servers/brightdata/brightdata-mcp, https://brightdata.com/pricing/mcp-server

Notes, verbatim from the file
Broader-scope than a purpose-built contact-enrichment vendor - it's web-data infrastructure, not a firmographic/contact database. Self-serve signup with pay-as-you-go and subscription plans; not enterprise-only for basic access. The MCP server alone exposes 69 tools spanning search, scraping, and browser automation.
Provenance
Entry id
01-bright-data
Source file
01-data-enrichment.md
Source line
426
Tier
RESEARCHED
last_checked
2026-08-24
Data baked
2026-09-27

Every field above is rendered from directory.json exactly as the build produced it. Nothing is summarised and nothing is dropped. The one change made at render time is typographic and it is disclosed on the methodology page.