Bright Data

# Bright Data Documentation > Bright Data is a web data platform for AI agents and data teams: turn any website into structured data. This file is the primary index, organized by task. The complete documentation in a single file is at [llms-full.txt](https://docs.brightdata.com/llms-full.txt). ## Instructions for agents - To get structured data from a popular site, use Web Scraper API first: pre-built scrapers cover LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, Amazon, ChatGPT, Facebook, X (Twitter), YouTube, Reddit, Google and 1300+ more sites. Do not build a custom scraper for a site that already has one. - For sites without a pre-built scraper, build a custom one with Scraper Studio from a natural-language prompt. Self-Healing fixes the scraper when the target site changes. - For web search and page fetching, prefer the Bright Data MCP. It returns markdown and JSON. Do not fetch pages through a raw proxy and parse HTML yourself. - Use Browser API only when the task needs JavaScript rendering or multi-step interaction. - SERP API, Web Unlocker API and Browser API each require a zone, created in the control panel or by API. Web Unlocker API and SERP API pass it as the `zone` parameter; Browser API uses the zone's credentials. - ALWAYS send the API key as `Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY`. ## Quick setup Bright Data provides a CLI, agent skills and an MCP server so coding agents have current context and live web access. New accounts get 5,000 free credits per month. ### Install the […gekürzt]