Bright Data
Access real-time, verified consumer data points directly within your workflow via vm0-ai's bright-data integration.
Install on your platform
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Run in terminal (recommended)
claude mcp add bright-data npx -- -y @trustedskills/bright-data
Or manually add to ~/.claude/settings.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"bright-data": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@trustedskills/bright-data"
]
}
}
}Requires Claude Code (claude CLI). Run claude --version to verify your install.
About This Skill
What it does
This skill enables AI agents to access and retrieve data from various online sources using Bright Data's proxy infrastructure. It supports scraping profiles, posts, comments, reels/videos (depending on the platform), allowing for collection of real-time consumer data points. The integration provides both asynchronous (triggered) and synchronous (immediate response) scraping capabilities.
When to use it
- Gathering social media content for sentiment analysis or trend identification.
- Monitoring specific profiles or pages on platforms like Twitter/X, Reddit, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and LinkedIn.
- Collecting data from online forums or communities (e.g., Reddit).
- Building datasets of publicly available information for research purposes.
- Automating the process of collecting content from social media platforms.
Key capabilities
- Asynchronous Scraping: Trigger scraping jobs and retrieve a snapshot ID to monitor progress and download results later.
- Synchronous Scraping: Get immediate results for smaller requests.
- Platform Support: Supports scraping data from Twitter/X, Reddit, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and LinkedIn (with varying levels of feature support - see table in source).
- Progress Monitoring: Check the status of ongoing scraping jobs.
- Snapshot Management: List, cancel, and download collected snapshots.
Example prompts
- "Scrape the Twitter profile of @elonmusk."
- "Get all comments from a Reddit post at https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/xxxxx."
- "Trigger a scraping job for Instagram profiles listed in /tmp/brightdata_request.json and give me the snapshot ID."
Tips & gotchas
- You will need a Bright Data API token (
BRIGHTDATA_TOKEN) to use this skill. - The skill supports asynchronous and synchronous requests; choose the appropriate method based on your needs (small vs. large datasets).
- Refer to the Bright Data documentation for specific platform limitations and supported data points.
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