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Poor Reliability and High Error Rates
What do you like best about the product?
Nothing. Their original promise of hard to get data being made easy to retrieve was not true.
What do you dislike about the product?
I found the documentation lacking in clear example use cases, which made setting up difficult. Despite using Bright Data to collect e-commerce data, I feel it fails in making the process easier. The scraping browser API, while promising in theory, does not perform well in practice. Over time, the product's performance has degraded significantly, leading to a high error rate. I am also frustrated by being charged for results that I did not receive back.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
n/a
Good product overall
What do you like best about the product?
Fast proxy
Low prices
Exceptional Support
Low prices
Exceptional Support
What do you dislike about the product?
Some things do not work as expected but support can help with that
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Web scraping and google proxy provider.
Reliable proxies and great experience with Bright Data
What do you like best about the product?
I’ve been using Bright Data’s data center and ISP proxies for a large-scale data collection, and they’ve been working very well. The ISP proxies are very reliable and easy to integrate into my workflow.
The platform itself is very intuitive, and the resources provided made it easy to learn and get started quickly.
In addition, their customer service has been really excellent, always quick to respond and very helpful whenever I had questions.
Overall, it's definitely worth recommending.
The platform itself is very intuitive, and the resources provided made it easy to learn and get started quickly.
In addition, their customer service has been really excellent, always quick to respond and very helpful whenever I had questions.
Overall, it's definitely worth recommending.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don’t have any negative feedback to give.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
A large-scale web data collection.
Essential Tool with Perfect Data and Stellar Service
What do you like best about the product?
I appreciate Bright Data’s ability to seamlessly scrape LinkedIn data, which is notoriously challenging to collect. Their data scraping capabilities are perfect for my research needs. Setting up their services was straightforward, integrating easily with our AWS infrastructure. I also value the approachable and supportive customer service. Additionally, the frequency at which they scrape data fits my requirements perfectly.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Bright Data simplifies scraping LinkedIn data, supports our research, and provides timely data collection, enhancing my nonprofit's operations.
Quick and smooth
What do you like best about the product?
Simplicity of use and effective support.
Thanks again to Jack Yurkanin for his professionalism and prompt assistance.
Thanks again to Jack Yurkanin for his professionalism and prompt assistance.
What do you dislike about the product?
In the user guides, I would like to see more templates with detailed examples.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The scraping of the Google SERP.
Bright Data Delivers Beyond Expectations
What do you like best about the product?
There are countless great things about Bright Data. Namely, the proxies are simple to use and integrate seamlessly into Python code. In addition, Bright Data provides extensive documentation for setting up and using each of their proxy offerings. The BrightAI chat is incredibly helpful with answering technical questions.
What do you dislike about the product?
Everything is seamless and easy to use, leaving nothing to dislike.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our research team has developed a tool that mimics end users to automate queries of ISP interfaces and extract advertised broadband availability, speed tiers, and pricing data at street-address granularity. To avoid originating all queries from a single non-residential IP address, we leverage a pool of IPs provided by Bright Initiative—the non-profit branch of Bright Data that supports academic and nonprofit projects with free access to data scraping tools. However, the initial version of this tool lacked robustness and extensibility: it frequently broke when ISPs updated their websites and required significant manual effort to integrate new ISPs.
To address these limitations, we built an ML-based data collection platform that queries ISP web interfaces using residential street addresses and extracts data on service availability, quality, and pricing. Bright Data’s pro-bono credits have been instrumental in this effort, enabling us to incorporate new ISPs into the framework and test the system at scale by running large volumes of address queries. BQT+ has already been applied in several policy evaluation studies, including an independent assessment of broadband availability, quality, and affordability in areas targeted by the $42.45 billion BEAD program.
Bright Data’s proxy infrastructure—especially its Web Unlocker—has been critical to scaling up data collection. Without it, we could not reliably run queries at scale on ISP websites protected by CAPTCHAs, many of which present captcha challenges that the Web Unlocker helps circumvent.
To address these limitations, we built an ML-based data collection platform that queries ISP web interfaces using residential street addresses and extracts data on service availability, quality, and pricing. Bright Data’s pro-bono credits have been instrumental in this effort, enabling us to incorporate new ISPs into the framework and test the system at scale by running large volumes of address queries. BQT+ has already been applied in several policy evaluation studies, including an independent assessment of broadband availability, quality, and affordability in areas targeted by the $42.45 billion BEAD program.
Bright Data’s proxy infrastructure—especially its Web Unlocker—has been critical to scaling up data collection. Without it, we could not reliably run queries at scale on ISP websites protected by CAPTCHAs, many of which present captcha challenges that the Web Unlocker helps circumvent.
good and stable product, good service
What do you like best about the product?
They give you a bunch of solutions, countries and all kind of proxies you can choose from and configure your solution accordingly. Also, they have a good service that will help yo configure investigate and solve issues that you ran into
What do you dislike about the product?
although they did gave me a good service eventually, it took them almost a day to answer my question and go live on zoom with me. Not sure whose fault that was, but my production was influenced by the proxy issue i had and waiting a day to get a response was not that nice (once they wrote me back - we immediately took care of it with professionally and kindly)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Im using scraping data as part of my solution, and im using bright data proxy service
A Real Contributor
What do you like best about the product?
I truly appreciate the user-friendly interface and platform. It's incredibly easy to work with, and the team consistently introduces new features and innovations to meet evolving needs and enhance the user experience.
The customer service is excellent. The account managers are not only helpful and polite but are also committed to quickly and effectively solving any issues that arise. The datasets themselves are rich and fascinating, offering a great deal of value.
The customer service is excellent. The account managers are not only helpful and polite but are also committed to quickly and effectively solving any issues that arise. The datasets themselves are rich and fascinating, offering a great deal of value.
What do you dislike about the product?
My main frustrations are with the platform's session management. The timeout period for a session is quite short, which can be inconvenient. Additionally, logging into the platform using a code doesn't always work smoothly or reliably.
Like with any web-based platform, occasional bugs appear in datasets and their exports, as well as in the purchasing process. However, these issues are usually resolved by simply updating the browser session.
Like with any web-based platform, occasional bugs appear in datasets and their exports, as well as in the purchasing process. However, these issues are usually resolved by simply updating the browser session.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Bright Data provides rich and relevant data that is essential for my daily work, where I verify data I collect on individuals and companies for research, focuses on ecosystem development, and I use the data to study trends and changes.
An excellent way to obtain data for research
What do you like best about the product?
I used one of their prepared datasets through their academic collaboration program (Bright Initiative).
It was easy to find the dataset in their catalog, understand its format, figure out how to query for the right cut of the data that I needed, and finally to download it.
Overall, it's an excellent way to obtain publicly available data, without having to worry about crawling, formatting, etc.
It was easy to find the dataset in their catalog, understand its format, figure out how to query for the right cut of the data that I needed, and finally to download it.
Overall, it's an excellent way to obtain publicly available data, without having to worry about crawling, formatting, etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing really major, but it's important to realize that it's better to download a larger dataset than several smaller ones, as the pricing isn't entirely linear.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use data for my research, and it is difficult to collect these data by myself.
We use BD in our thetruestory.news aggregator to extract content from some crucial media outlets
What do you like best about the product?
It works well and it is easy to start using it
What do you dislike about the product?
Some features were too complicated to understand if they were present or not.
The company's staff was very helpful, so maybe it was my fault
The company's staff was very helpful, so maybe it was my fault
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were able to parse some important news outlets that were otherwise not accessible
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