Scraping Unleashed: Bright Data's New Tool for Web Scraping and Data Collection

Bright Data is introducing a new product called the scraping browser.

Bright Data offers a range of products including proxies, data sets, and Bright insights.

The scraping browser allows users to perform various actions and interact with websites for data collection.

🔍 Bright Data's Scraping Browser makes web scraping easier by providing a browser infrastructure with built-in features like proxy management and unblocking, eliminating the need for customers to set up and maintain their own infrastructure.

🌐 The scraping browser is compatible with popular browser automation frameworks like Puppeteer and Playwright, making it easy for users to integrate and use. It supports any scale and allows users to navigate, scroll, and click on web pages with ease.

👥 The scraping browser opens up new data sources for customers by bypassing blockings on certain websites, making previously challenging or resource-consuming scraping tasks possible.

🔍 The scraping browser is a powerful tool for web scraping that allows users to control the browser and access more features compared to pre-built collectors.

🧩 The scraping browser can handle different types of captchas, including new ones that may be unknown, and provides CDP events to show the process of solving them.

💻 Using the scraping browser eliminates the need for multiple servers, reduces cloud expenses, and simplifies the setup process for web scraping tasks.

The video demonstrates how to scrape data from Amazon using a scraping browser.

A remote browser connected to a service is used, which may be slower than direct requests.

The demonstration also shows a cloudflare capture solver that automatically solves captchas.

🌐 The scraping browser allows users to remotely monitor and visualize browser activity.

🔒 The scraping browser has built-in capture event detection and solving capabilities.

💰 Scraping browser and web unlocker have different pricing models based on usage.

🔍 Bright Data's Scraping Browser can be used with Puppeteer and Playwright to extract information from web pages.

💻 The scraping browser supports various operating systems and can bypass Cloudflare protection.

🌐 It is possible to scrape public web data from sites like LinkedIn and Twitter, but not private information behind login walls.

🔒 Data collected via scripting browsers is not stored by the company.

🔄 The company constantly adapts to changes on websites and offers support for new blocking mechanisms.

🌐 Different products are available for different use cases, including the scraping browser.