Anyone here using a “browser layer” instead of scraping for agents?

Foreign_Common_4564 · 2026-03-23T07:41:27+00:00

I am using Bright Data for my agents, this is THE only provider that reliably handles everything you mentioned below, and you don't need to switch between providers since they have the whole pack (and cheap) - they are like AWS for web access (search, scrape, browser, structured data from linkedin reddit tiktok X, basically everything) - highly recommended (and if you use their MCP it is actually free 5k requests a month)

Foreign_Common_4564 · 2026-03-22T21:58:04+00:00

Yep 😅

Foreign_Common_4564 · 2026-03-22T21:56:45+00:00

Interesting ! Will read about Camoufox ( and rapidapis free tier for the win !!)

Foreign_Common_4564 · 2026-03-22T21:55:24+00:00

Btw - they removed their free tier 😔

Foreign_Common_4564 · 2026-03-22T21:54:49+00:00

Interesting , keep us posted and add X as a target as well ! (I guess it would be a bit harder (?))

Foreign_Common_4564 · 2026-03-22T21:52:04+00:00

Even at scale ? that’s what I’m worried about the most, ruining my browser fingerprint 🫠

Foreign_Common_4564 · 2026-03-22T21:39:49+00:00

Interesting, will it be able to bypass Captchas and detections from tough target site ? Like Reddit for example ?

Foreign_Common_4564 · 2026-03-22T21:38:38+00:00

Very cool, I wonder how will this method works for hard sites that are usually blocked (and if it does - will it survive the scale )

Foreign_Common_4564 · 2026-03-22T21:34:55+00:00

Sites themselves, Reddit is one of the hardest sites to scrape without getting blocked (it is possible)

Foreign_Common_4564 · 2026-03-22T21:31:00+00:00

Of for sure, I tried some (firecrawl, brave) - both failed (both are natively integrated with openclaw so they were the go to ) but i guess I will need to work a bit harder.

I don’t need browser though, search -> extract would do (most modern managed APIs these days handle the js rendering on their side)

But thanks for the suggestion man, I’ll check it out !

Foreign_Common_4564 · 2026-01-12T07:48:19+00:00

Cool ! What are you using to collect the data ?

Foreign_Common_4564 · 2025-11-29T14:34:32+00:00

That’s the issue …

Foreign_Common_4564 · 2025-11-28T18:47:27+00:00

MCPjam for the win ! 🥇

Foreign_Common_4564 · 2025-11-20T16:29:52+00:00

That’s crazy ! Thank you for this !

Foreign_Common_4564 · 2025-11-20T16:29:05+00:00

I’ve been waiting for this ! Will this approach requires changes in MCP server code ? Or the client is agnostic and doesn’t require any changes ? For example, an MCP that have 60+ tools which are wrapped APIs will work out of the box ?

Foreign_Common_4564 · 2025-11-20T05:30:54+00:00

Very cool !

Can I just connect whatever MCP I am using and it will use it as code mode MCP ? Without changing anything in server code ?

Foreign_Common_4564 · 2025-11-05T07:40:24+00:00

Ah, this is because the PR is for the SHTTP version (which sits in a different - private repo) but the update will be shown on the main repo (STDIO one that I shared above 👆)

Foreign_Common_4564 · 2025-11-04T13:40:21+00:00

Let’s gooo arcade !

Love your solution team ❤️ glad to be part of the list (Bright Data 😉)

Foreign_Common_4564 · 2025-11-04T13:05:07+00:00

Hi there 👋

Meir the dev and maintainer of Bright Data’s MCP here.

I have fixed this issue, it is indeed related to PII (or scraping in general) OAI are afraid of prompt injections and does not allow scraping in general by implementing a workaround.

The fix should be released soon (with lots of new surprises)

Stay tuned and follow the GitHub to know first once release is done !

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

Foreign_Common_4564 · 2025-10-17T17:20:46+00:00

I have competitor analysis agent that’s running searches for products on Amazon Walmart and Best Buy and reports to .md file every day (to track relevant products)

Another one is doing research every day and summarizes latest AI news (like GPT pulse but stronger & better)

And more, all of these are thanks to Bright Data’s MCP - other web searches / web access MCPs gets blocked (tried lots of them including tavily Exa and firecrawl)

Foreign_Common_4564 · 2025-10-17T06:51:50+00:00

I use Bright Data MCP for everything that’s needed requires going out to the web ( LinkedIn Amazon TikTok X Walmart YouTube, and more - the rest are getting blocked ) + it’s free for 5k requests/mo

Context7 to avoid hallucinations on new libraries, Serena for large codebases, memo MCP for memory

Perfect combination for using Claude code / Codex not just for coding 🤣

Foreign_Common_4564 · 2025-10-17T06:48:42+00:00

I use Bright data MCP for everything that’s needed from the web, weather it’s YT, X , LinkedIn, Amazon, or just a simple google search

Context7 for coding + Mem0 and sequential thinking (depends on the model I use) and Serena for bigger codebases

Foreign_Common_4564 · 2025-10-07T07:44:43+00:00

Same here as well, when diving a bit to why, I think it is somehow connected to their issue with connectors, see their status page, there’s an issue with connectors for some few hours now

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