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

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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 / 9 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

SQLZOO mentions (20)

• Practicing SQL

  Https://sqlzoo.net/ is one of my faves. Source: almost 5 years ago

• I’d like to learn SQL

  Sql Zoo https://sqlzoo.net is great. Starts with really basic queries and gradually moves to more advanced queries and joins. There are tests for each section to help internalize it. Source: almost 5 years ago

• Student unsure of taking on an internship

  Check out sites like https://sqlzoo.net and try out the basics of SQL. And if that grabs your attention head over to youtube or udemy and take some courses. Source: almost 5 years ago

• Resources for a beginner?

  Sqlbolt.com and sqlzoo.net are both fun, fast, and free. Source: almost 5 years ago

• I have made the decision to finally learn SQL. I don't have much knowledge about the language. I have downloaded Microsoft SSMS 2018 and that's about it.

  What is a good tutorial that can explain everything to me from the start that you have used yourself?There are lots of great tutorials out there, some mentioned already in this post. https://sqlzoo.net was what I started with years ago. If you'd like to start from the beginning, avoiding lectures and instead focusing on exercises, I would suggest https://sixweeksql.com since it targets MS SQL specifically and will... Source: almost 5 years ago