Bright Data Reviews

1. Sam Mitchell

   · Owner at KittenProperties · over 2 years ago
   Mixed feelings

   We used their DC proxies and Residential proxies. Resi proxies were having quite low success rate. We had to use resi solution from other proxy providers. Unblocker didn't work well either also it was way too expensive.

   🏁 Competitors: Decodo, NetNut.io

   👍 Pros:    Cheap dc proxies

   👎 Cons:    Quite expensive|Residential proxies are worse than competitiors

CodeCrafters Reviews

Bright Data mentions (45)

• Precursor

  Happy to offer a counter of some great products for anti-bot defeat: https://brightdata.com/ https://www.zenrows.com/ https://www.capsolver.com/ https://scrapfly.io/ hundreds of millions of residential ips, human browser fingerprints, custom browser binaries, auto solve of turnstyle, recaptcha v3, kasada, datadome, AWS WAF, etc if they come up. - Source: Hacker News / 14 days ago

• Best Web Scraping Tools in 2026: A Hands-On Comparison of the Top 10

  The best web scraping tools 2026 leaderboard hasn't changed; the gap has narrowed. Bright Data remains the safest bet for any team that wants to spend time on the data, not on the scraping. The 660-scraper library, 400M-IP network, pay-per-success pricing and unlimited concurrency are still uncontested at the high end. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• The Economics of Web Scraping: How Consultancies Price Data Extraction and Manage Scope Creep

  Infrastructure Pass-Through (OpEx) Data extraction at scale is infrastructure-heavy. Bypassing modern Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) requires high-quality residential proxies, CAPTCHA solvers, and substantial browser-automation compute resources. Services like Bright Data charge significantly by the gigabyte for premium residential IPs. These variable infrastructure costs must be passed directly to the client,... - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• LinkedIn Scraping Is Dead: 5 Legal, ToS-Safe Alternatives That Actually Work in 2026

  Bright Data has successfully defended web scraping in U.S. Courts and offers LinkedIn datasets pre-collected and ready to download. LinkedIn profile data on their dataset marketplace runs around $250 per 100,000 records. The freshness caveat is real: bulk datasets are snapshots, not real-time. If you need current job titles on a rolling basis, you're better with an enrichment API than a one-time dataset pull.... - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• Building a Live AI Market Research Terminal: How Bright Data and Convex Replace Polling With Real-Time Everything

  Bright Data built an open-source demo that solves this. It's called the Signal Terminal, a financial research tool built around that problem. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

CodeCrafters mentions (9)

• Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?

  I had a lot of with Code Crafters. It's a paid platform, but they give you a basic walk through of different technologies, with full test suites. For example, you implement some basic Redis. It doesn't spoon feed you what to do, but breaks it down into manageable chunks. https://codecrafters.io/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Learning Go the Hard Way

  To make this happen, I'm starting with the Shell Challenge at CodeCrafters.io. - Source: dev.to / 7 months ago

• Build your own shell : Codecrafters Edition

  Have you ever thought of building your own shell — or anything you use in your daily tasks? It could be an IDE, a simple database, or even a text editor. In this blog, I’ll walk you through the exciting journey of building a shell using the Codecrafters platform. I’ll share why the experience is amazing and why you should absolutely give it a try! - Source: dev.to / about 1 year ago

• Long weekends and short updates

  This is where today's quick tip comes into play. Do you know Codecrafters.io? If you don't, let's remedy that now! It's a platform that monthly proposes building projects of different complexity, guiding you step by step in studying and developing. Some of the latest projects include reproducing your own version of Git, Redis, BitTorrent, or your Interpreter. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• Stop Re-Implementing Code: Use Extract Method in Rust

  I recently started learning Rust using the awesome CodeCrafters website. - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago