Bright Data Reviews: 4.6/5 — Highly Rated

If found it easy to request scrapers. I expected some back-and-forth to get exactly the data I need, but the developers got it right the first time. The developers also respond to issue very quickly. Tickets I've submitted have generally been resolved in less than 24 hours.

It can be difficult to predict the cost of a given number of inputs to the scraper, because different inputs lead to different numbers of page loads. There may not be any way for Brightdata to change this.

I'm researching the costs and benefits of sponsored content on social media. Through Brightdata, I've been able to collect a large volume of social media data to analyze.

I have used the platform for one research project so far, but am planning to collaborate with Bright Data again in the future. In my opinion their platform is quite intuitive and easy to use, also because they conduct an onboarding session including a video tutorial. The data was provided in a way that was easy to implement and integrate into my research workflow. Their staff was super responsive via mail and we also had multiple zoom calls to discuss any issues. Further, they actively promote our colloboration which increases the exposure of my own research: https://brightinitiative.com/partners-stories/insead-felix

So far there is nothing that I disliked about Bright Data. It is true that some technical knowledge is helpful to make the most use of the resources that they provide. Lastly, I can only speak to the quality of the Bright Initiative; I did not use any commercial services.

I was working together with the Bright Initiative of Bright Data. Specifically, they supported me with a research project investigating the behavior of social media users. For this I need to gather vast amounts of data from multiple social media platforms. Bright Data supported me by granting me access to thei Dataset Marketplace which allowed me to filter through the Instagram data to create a comprehensive set of data relevant for my study. In addition to the pro bono provision of data, Bright Data also convinced me with excellent technical support.

The Population Project attempts to list the full name and date of birth of all humans alive. We're constantly looking for online resources, querying Google in various languages and from multiple locations. We found about Bright Data as we were looking for a provider of proxies. We got lucky enough to be handpicked as a non-profit partner and joined the Bright Data Initiative program as a result. We now have access to the full spectrum of Bright Data's services, a privilege on which it's difficult to pin a dollar value. The breadth of the product range is mindboggling. What I like best about Bright Data is the ease of interaction with both the service and the technical teams. All of our questions or requests are quickly accommodated. I wish all our IT providers were as kind and diligent!

It took me a bit of time to get acclimated with the dashboard interface and the permission system. But we're all good now!

We query search engines thousands of times a day. Bright Data helps us emulate the experience of running searches from multiple countries or platforms.

I like the different form of integration for technical tools, so we can build a toolchain that can easily integrate with the network. We are building tools in the big and still loosely defined area of platform responsibility, and we need to simulate user behavior. With BrightData, our IP address is considered residential and we don't qualify as a bot, so we can investigate personalization and localization algorithms with less difficulty.

If I don't like something about brightdata, it's because I haven't read the documentation well enough to understand what's going on.

Because platforms behave differently for users with different languages and source IP addresses, brightdata's global network allows me to easily compare how the same app would behave differently for the same content.

Bottom line is that the product worked great. Collecting the publicly available data that I needed manually was impractical, so Bright Data's help was critical.

Nothing really. The product suited my needs perfectly.

I needed information on real estate listings over 200 markets. With their web tool, I was able to get this information over all 200 listings. I was able to use this information in an academic study.

Service quality, support is awesome, fast responses and always resolving the issues. Couldn't find other providers of similar products to have this complete list of services.

Maybe the lack of benefits for long lasting clients?

The essential of our business is to get the data correctly. Their services help us to do so.

It is the best in my work life,and very useful for me, I would like share it with my friends

No, I like it so much, ease of use,It help me so much

I can use it to access foreign network fastly and get quick response.

The porfolio of services covers all our research requirements. The stability and speed of the solution has not been compromised even once since we'd started using it on a daily basis more that a year ago . We've had a few questions when designing a very specific solution which were all immediately awnsered by the tech team. The integration with the remaining components was very quick due to very flxible configuations. The reach of the data analysis that we have obtained from the tools is unprecedented.

We've not enountred any shortcomings with regards to the product, commnication or service therefore there is nothing that we could recommend to improve.

Bright Data solves our fundanmental issue of accessing large numbers of websites in search for disinformation. We need to be able to scan as many various media sources as possible therefore we cannot technicaly negotiate indivdually the terms of accessing data for each source. WIthout Bright Data our scrappers are often not let in, blocked or severly slowed down after several requests. Bright Data allows us to bypass those restriction and increase our ability for data collection by orders of magnitude.

Bright data proxies are very effective in preventing blocking. The integration of the bright data tool in our pipeline is very easy. We use it on a daily basis, with thousands of requests, without any problem. The Bright Data dedicated support is also always on hand to help.

No real downsides have been met for now.

We need to crawl millions of web pages about scientific publications, in order to map the scientific research conducted worldwide, with details about the authors and their affiliations. These pieces of information should be entirely public, but can be blocked with anti-bot systems. Bright Data Web Unlocker is very efficient to secure access to this information.

Easy to use and whenever I have a concern their support is really fast and comprehensive to answer

If you use to a specific way of using their proxy, they will always answer to you with the curl request even if you provide another way to use it (axios / fetch)

It's helping us in making sure that we are getting the data as expected

What they stand for. Their stance on giving "pro-bono access to leading data technology and expertise to drive positive change", is admirable. Their product is also great. I haven't come across a better product in the data space.

It's still early, but their data marketplace has not got a lot of grocery based e-commerce sites (only 1 which is Walmart US).

Collecting a large dataset in a structured format, that would otherwise be very time consuming to do so.

Tools to build a software and build the product review.

There nothing that I have not like in Bright Data.

Bright Data's network offers businesses access to millions of genuine residential and mobile IPs from all around the world. This unique P2P network allows companies to perform traffic throughput on these IPs for business purposes, making it easier than ever to perform research and gather competitive intelligence

It's features and everything which brings the great features to build software and product review.

Till now I have noticed nothing that is not good for us to build the software and product review.

It's a reliable option for web scraping, data collection, and other web-related tasks that require high-quality proxies.

I love the most about. Connectivity. They understand us.

There is nothing to dislike. Should improve reaching to potential user.

I could able to extract data from various websites which helped me to research.

The sheer ability to just add the website which you want to get scraped without paying a a bit expensive buck makes it very helpful for comptetitor assessment. Really game changing stuff.

There is nothing as such that I dislike but if it can bemade a little cheaper it will really help in becoming a one and only solution for scraping websites. Would be game changing.

Bright Data is helping understand finding the competetive landscape for our company. We were able to extract out features from our competitors websites without ever manually going to check their websites which made the life really easy.

Bright data is most simple thing to use and it is easy to use for everyone I have never seen this crazy product like this everyone should try this out at one time

Their is no any dislike thing like that in this

It is very good for data extraction and I am struggling a lot with various applications for data extraction bright data have its simple steps is beneficial for me

they offer different pricing for various data collection proxy services. And the price are reasonable. The internal dashboard is easy to track the recent usage. If I want lower granularity of usage I could even request support to provide corresponding logs in case the unblocker fails to scrape what I want. Their support is responsive in answering my question. All my questions in recent weeks were solved perfectly by either fixing in their end or suggestion of other data products. Moreover, the pool of IP is sufficient for me to do large scraping. I could do ~ 1M page scraping in same domain without getting blocked after using residential proxy.

documentation is a bit limited when I want to integrated with selenium during web scraping. However, seldom the case we really need selenium. for python request based proxy their proxy products did a good job.

some website are very easy to get blocked. bright data proxy perfectly solve the issue and the response time is very fast.

I found the service and support outstanding. Daniel, my primary contact, is always helpful and patient. As a Doctoral Researcher at Cardiff University Business School, and a seasoned financial services data analytics executive, I pride myself in staying at the forefront of alternative data sources and tools. Bright Data delivers on these, with a robust data set and easy-to-use platform for filtering and managing the assets through to delivery.

Additional filtering capabilities are always desirable, as well as the ability to do some pre-processing before taking delivery of the asset.

Access to a high quality, comprehensive dataset of staff publicly available profile information, for large scale data analysis and machine learning.

The Bright Initiative is an excellent program, and its services are crucial to our data-driven strategies for our industry. Web data collection through Bright Data has proven quick, reliable, and scalable. They are GDPR-compliant, so we haven't had to worry about legal backlash. Submitting requests for managed data collectors is intuitive and easy, and the people we have worked with are knowledgeable, friendly, and professional. Bright Data have made our data collection needs effortless.

Bright Data's IDE help and documentation are limited for those looking to develop their own data collectors for the cost-effective solution of paying per page load for small projects where a managed collector is not worth the price. The templates are only helpful for those specific sites, so it can be difficult to tailor to custom datasets.

Bright Data has allowed us to automate, scale, and integrate data collection effortlessly with our business intelligence tools and pre-existing data infrastructure. Web data collection has enabled data-driven strategies which were previously not viable due to a lack of consistent and timely data.

The datasets are very well structured, making information retrieval very easy. The dataset is a fantastic and quick alternative if one needs public data at scale.

The data is pretty neat. None that I can think of.

We are researchers from Indian School of Business (ISB) and we got access to Bright Data’s LinkedIn dataset. It contains web information from millions of public LinkedIn profiles, which makes it a rich source for conducting management research. The datasets are very well structured, making information retrieval very easy. Each profile has unique identifiers, which enables filtering/ linking of subsets and getting a comprehensive screenshot for each individual and firm. The dataset is a fantastic and quick alternative if one needs public data at scale. Additionally, I had a wonderful experience working with their account manager, Daniel Piaskowski and their backend development team. They considered our feedback and incorporated a new filter in the dataset, which helped us filter records more precisely. They have been highly responsive and timely with their data delivery. The data has contributed hugely to our research.

I work with Bright as part of the Bright Initiative, a university partnership program. Based on my experience, I highly recommend Bright to anyone looking to perform web scraping. Since using Bright, I've never had to worry about IP bans, captcha challenges, or webmasters reporting my university for 'malware' access to their sites. Bright's proxy is dependable, fast, and simple to configure. Their support team is responsive and knowledgeable, making it easy to resolve any issues that may arise.

They upgraded their documentation page making it harder to find the sample code than before. Hopefully, they will fix this soon.

Reliable, fast and always available access to web pages.

The support team of BrightData is very responsive and professional throughout my entire project. They listened to our needs and were available to answer any questions we had. The quality of the data collected was great and we were able to use it to generate insights for our business. I would recommend BrightData to anyone looking for reliable and high-quality data scraping services.

The cost per page is a little bit pricey

I am using Bright Data to collect product description data from Amazon.com for my research project.

The very stable proxy solution works great on any workload

Nothing, everything works as expected, no surprises)

We need a stable and scalable proxy solution for data crawling

I am using data from the Bright initiative for several of my research projects. The ease of data retrieval and the support provided by the organization is excellent. The quality of data is also great and highly valuable for researchers.

Right now, I do not see any downside to the Bright Data

Bright Data is helping researchers with high-quality data that enables them to study several questions and provide insights that can help businesses and society

I've been using their service since April 2021 and paid for 30 residential dedicated proxies from Canada. There were some interruptions sometimes, but overall I would recommend them.

I experienced quite some interruptions with their residential IP zone, but we decided to stick to what actually works - ISPs and datacenter.

Providing access to the Canadian IP network.

We started using Bright Data around 6 months ago and it gave us a growth leap for our business. You can easily handle with services Bright Data provides even with a minimum knowledge of IT. Moreover, once you start your journey with Bright Data they immediately provide you with a manager who will assist you anytime and anywhere. Our manager Pedro Silva is one of the best managers we've ever met. He is very polite and at the same time is very professional which gives more than 5 stars. He assists us very fast in case of any troubles and provides us quick solutions for any problems. And finally, we would like to mention that Bright Data doesn't use aggressive marketing where usually companies send hundreds of trash emails every month. They will send you only important emails.

We couldn't find any disadvantages of Bright Data

Bright Data helps us to easily learn the market

I absolutely love Bright Data's online data collection services! The platform is easy to use and the team is always quick to help with any questions or issues that come up. The data I've collected through Bright Data has been accurate and high-quality, making it a valuable asset to my research. I highly recommend Bright Data to anyone in need of reliable and efficient data collection.

When it comes to my experience with Bright Data, I have nothing but positive things to say. The platform is user-friendly and the team is helpful and responsive. The data I've collected through Bright Data has been accurate and of high quality, making it a valuable asset to my research. Overall, I have had a great experience using Bright Data's online data collection services and have not encountered any issues or negative aspects.

I recently started using Bright Data for my research and have been extremely impressed with the platform and the team. The process of collecting data online can be time-consuming and overwhelming, but Bright Data has made it so much easier for me. The platform is user-friendly and the team is always quick to help with any questions or issues that come up. The data I've collected through Bright Data has been accurate and high-quality, and has been a valuable asset to my research. Overall, I am extremely satisfied with my experience using Bright Data and highly recommend it to anyone in need of reliable and efficient online data collection.

High-quality proxies, great support, self-service, quick & easy

A bit expensive, but definitely worth the quality

Residential proxies for social media accounts

1)Ease of use 2) variety of integration 3) readymade libraries 4) readymade data sets 5) flexibility to write you own code

cost wise, I am preety much dis satisfied,

This helps me gather public data in a blink of an eye. accuracy is something I love about Bright data.

Best support from Mr. Diwakar, friendly behavior and urgent solutions to problems. Bright data is a good proxy and also has affordable price points

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