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

Hypeddit 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 / 26 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 / 4 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 / 4 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

Hypeddit mentions (8)

• The lost joy of music piracy

  Add a download gate to the mix, remove the optional payment (I promise you nobody's gonna do that) and you're basically describing https://hypeddit.com/. Instead of paying to download music, the users "pays" by following you across social media / streaming services. Granted it's mostly used for copyright-violating edits, but some musicians use it for original tracks too. It's how basically any electronic music... - Source: Hacker News / 24 days ago

• If you had 3 days to learn how to dj what would be the most important skills to learn?

  Set list. Make sure you have enough music to begin with. You are gonna want to try and get/buy .wavs or .aiff file types. MP3s are okay if they are good quality but don't rip your tunes off youtube/spotify with one of the converter sites, they sound like ass on a decent set of speakers. Look at sites like https://hypeddit.com they are free and you just need to link a SoundCloud account. Source: almost 3 years ago

• My first post here. Here are some websites where you can download free music as a DJ.

  Https://hypeddit.com/ - A lot of good bootlegs/remixes and packs. Source: over 3 years ago

• For an artist releasing a new song, what’s the best way to get it to DJ’s?

  If you mean non-professionally, just you personally trying to get a tune out there...SoundCloud with "free download" in the upload name so people can find it...you can either A) the in the Permissions enable direct download and B) in the Metadata include a "Buy Link", where the Title of the button is "FREE DOWNLOAD" and the link takes people off to hypeddit.com to actually download it. I'm unsure the in's and... Source: almost 4 years ago

• Where the remixes at?

  Try Hypeddit I have found a lot of good remixes and bootlegs on there.. Source: about 4 years ago