Context-as-a-Service
The web data layer
The web data layer
for context builders
Retrieval and agentic workflows are hard enough. We maintain the scalable, reliable web data pipeline underneath, so you can focus on your logic.
From web to your product
LIVE
Public web sources
Search
Companies
People
Videos
News
Marketplaces
Bright Data
Unlock · Extract · Structure
99.95%
first-try
structured, verified data
Your product
Analyze · Enrich · Surface insights
Insight delivered to agent
Why it matters
When the fetch fails,
When the fetch fails,
your model answers from memory.
A blocked or stale fetch does not throw an error. The model fills the gap from memory and returns a fluent, cited answer that is wrong, while the failed request burns tokens on retries. Unreliable web data is a hallucination risk and an inference cost at once, on every query.
01
The retry tax
An anti-bot update drops your success rate from 90% to 40% overnight. The failed fetches retry, the agent re-reasons, and the token bill climbs quietly until someone finally looks at it.
02
Silent failure ships
A blocked or stale fetch does not error. The model reasons over last week's truth and returns a confident, wrong answer, with no human reviewing the retrieval step. The failure ships straight to your customer.
03
Raw HTML eats your context window
A raw page can cost 50K tokens. The same facts as structured JSON cost 2K. Feeding agents unstructured markup burns budget and buries the signal the model actually needs.
04
The compliance gap stalls the deal
Enterprise buyers audit your data supply chain. Certs alone are table stakes; court-tested legal standing is what most vendors cannot show. The gap flows upstream to your product and stalls at procurement.
The framework
Four properties separate context from data
The reasoning layer is the model now, not an analyst cleaning a CSV. Data an agent consumes directly has to be all four at once. Miss one and the agent fails at inference, confidently and without warning.
Structured
Typed entities with explicit relationships, not strings of HTML. Clean JSON with canonical IDs an agent can reason over, not a scraped paragraph it has to guess at.
Fresh
Freshness as a first-class SLA, not a pipeline property. Re-crawled on request and timestamped at the moment of use, so the model never reasons over yesterday's truth.
Verified
Every claim traces back to a fetched URL, a timestamp, and a structured field from a known origin. The difference between a chatbot and a system of record.
Governed
SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and a real source-of-data story before legal asks. Court-tested legal standing so the compliance posture decides the contract in your favor.
How it works
Call the platform. Get clean, structured context back.
Route collection through Bright Data instead of a stack you maintain. Pick the product that fits the job, from a single Web Unlocker call to Scraper Studio and Datasets, and the unblocking, extraction, and structuring happen for you.
1
Request
Call the API on any public URL, or wire up the MCP server so an agent can do it directly. No proxies to manage, no anti-bot systems to fight, no scrapers to maintain.
2
Resolve
CAPTCHAs, fingerprinting, IP rotation, and cookie handling resolve automatically behind the call. 15 years of anti-bot R&D, with a 99.95% platform success rate.
3
Deliver
Clean HTML or structured JSON comes back, timestamped and source-traced, ready to drop straight into your context window or pipeline.
web_unlocker.request
# one call to a site that blocks standard collection
POST https://api.brightdata.com/request
{ "url": "https://target.com/data", "format": "json" }
# clean, structured, timestamped. unblocking handled for you.
200 OK → { "entity": {...}, "fetched_at": "2026-06-08T11:04Z" }
POST https://api.brightdata.com/request
{ "url": "https://target.com/data", "format": "json" }
# clean, structured, timestamped. unblocking handled for you.
200 OK → { "entity": {...}, "fetched_at": "2026-06-08T11:04Z" }
Platform
The full web data layer, under your product
Start with one product and expand across the platform. Every piece is built to feed agents and pipelines, not analysts.
Web Unlocker
One API call to any website. Clean HTML or JSON back, every time. Handles the entire unblocking stack automatically.
SERP API
Structured search results as clean JSON from Google, Bing, and more. The direct replacement for the retired Bing Search API.
Scraper Studio
AI agent and hosted IDE for building custom extractors on Bright Data's network. Describe the site, ship a production scraper, skip the proxy and anti-bot code.
Datasets Marketplace
Pre-collected, structured, daily-refreshed datasets across 350+ sources. Skip the pipeline build for companies, people, jobs, real estate, and news.
Discover API
Real-time web discovery for agents. Give it a query and intent, get back a ranked list of live, verified URLs ready to extract. No hardcoded URL lists.
Web Archive
90 PB of historical web data, including anti-bot protected sites. The discovery and backfill layer for any context product.
Production scale
Reliable at the scale agents demand
99.95%
platform success rate
99.99%
uptime SLA
400M+
residential IPs, 195 countries
20,000+
customers worldwide
Keep the moat, hand us the maintenance. Your best engineers spend the next year on the index and the ranking, not on anti-bot upkeep.
FAQ
Common questions
Are you a competitor to my context product? +
No. We run underneath context products, not against them. Your product is the context logic: the index, the entity resolution, the retrieval, the freshness SLA. We are the web data layer that keeps it fed with fresh, structured, unblockable data.
We keep hitting 403 and 429 errors at scale. Does this solve that? +
Yes. 403 (forbidden) and 429 (too many requests) are exactly what the unblocking stack is built for. IP rotation, request pacing, fingerprint management, and retry handling run behind the call, so your pipeline receives a clean response instead of an error to catch, back off, and re-queue.
Do you handle CAPTCHAs and bot detection? +
Yes. CAPTCHAs, browser fingerprinting, TLS and header checks, and JavaScript challenges are resolved automatically. It is 15 years of anti-bot R&D behind a single call, with a 99.95% platform success rate on the sites that block standard collection.
What about JavaScript-heavy sites and single-page apps? +
Handled. The platform renders JavaScript and returns the fully loaded page or the exact structured fields you asked for. Infinite scroll, lazy-loaded content, and SPAs are not a special case you have to script around.
How does this reduce token spend? +
Two ways. First, a far higher first-try success rate means fewer failed requests and fewer retries for your agent to reason through. Second, we return structured JSON instead of raw HTML, so a page that cost roughly 50K tokens collapses to around 2K. Fewer retries, far less context bloat.
Can it feed a RAG pipeline or vector database? +
Yes. Structured JSON drops straight into a chunking and embedding pipeline. Because every record is typed and timestamped, your retrieval layer stays fresh and traceable instead of stale and unverifiable, which is what protects the accuracy of what your agent retrieves.
Can I control how fresh the data is? +
Yes. Freshness is a first-class control. Re-crawl on demand, and every record is timestamped at the moment of fetch, so you can enforce a freshness SLA, for example no data older than 72 hours, rather than hope a cache is current.
Can it handle high-concurrency collection at scale? +
Yes. Unlimited concurrency with auto-scaling across 400M+ residential IPs in 195 countries. Whether you need a thousand pages or a hundred million, the platform scales without you provisioning proxies or tuning rate limits.
What about compliance for our enterprise buyers? +
Court-tested, not just certified. Certs your competitors will eventually get; a won lawsuit they cannot. Bright Data holds ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, and CSA STAR Level 1, with GDPR and CCPA, plus court-tested legal standing (Meta v. Bright Data, 2024). Build on us and you inherit a compliance story you can hand to your own enterprise buyers.
How hard is the integration? +
Light. Call the API on your target URL, or run
npx @brightdata/mcp to give an agent the live web directly. No proxies to manage, no anti-bot systems to maintain, and you can keep your existing scrapers for the easy sites and route only the hard ones to us.Can I test it on my own hardest sites? +
Yes. Start with 5,000 free requests on the full stack, no card and no expiry. Run it against the specific sources that give your pipeline the most trouble and compare the success rate yourself.
You build the logic. We handle the web data.
When the fetch fails, your agent doesn't. Test Bright Data on your hardest sources with 5,000 free requests. No card. No expiry.