Bright Data Agent Skills — Setup Guide¶
Source: brightdata/skills GitHub: brightdata/skills Skills: 22 skills · 26.9K total installs Category: Web Scraping & Research First Seen: catalogued August 15, 2026 evening sweep Quality Tier: 🟢 Production (official org — Bright Data, the web data platform vendor)
Bright Data's official agent skills cover the full web-data lifecycle: scraping, search, SEO audits, competitive intelligence, brand listening, price comparison, data feeds, and a scraping browser debugger — the operational layer for agent-driven web research. Carried in the sweep queue for weeks; drafted now on publisher-page verification of 26.9K installs across 22 skills.
Installation¶
npx skills add brightdata/skills
Prerequisites¶
| Requirement | Details |
|---|---|
| Node.js + npx | For the skill installer |
| Bright Data account | API credentials for most skills |
| Bright Data proxies | For scrape and browser skills at scale |
What It Provides¶
| Skill | Installs | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| scrape | 10.7K | Structured web scraping |
| search | 7.3K | Web search via Bright Data |
| brightdata-cli | 1.9K | CLI interaction |
| seo-audit | 1.7K | SEO auditing |
| bright-data-best-practices | 1.7K | Platform best practices |
| bright-data-mcp | 956 | MCP server integration |
| agent-onboarding | 518 | Agent onboarding workflow |
| scraper-builder | 276 | Build custom scrapers |
| data-feeds | 267 | Feed-based data collection |
| competitive-intel | 226 | Competitive intelligence gathering |
| design-mirror | 222 | Mirror site designs |
| brd-browser-debug | 189 | Scraping browser debugging |
| brightdata-sdk | 160 | SDK usage |
| price-comparison | 139 | Price comparison scraping |
| scraper-studio | 121 | Scraper Studio workflows |
| brightdata-proxy | 105 | Proxy configuration |
| discover-api | 93 | Discovery API |
| live-research | 90 | Live research workflows |
| brand-listening | 89 | Brand mentions monitoring |
| brightdata-sdk-js / python-sdk-best-practices | 87 / 47 | SDK guidance |
| rag-pipeline | 82 | RAG data pipelines |
Quick Start¶
- Install:
npx skills add brightdata/skills - Start with
scrapeandsearch— the highest-install pair - Ask: "scrape this site and run a competitive intelligence pass on the pricing table"
CorpusIQ Use Cases¶
| Use Case | How |
|---|---|
| Research sweeps | scrape + search as a resilient fallback when primary search backends degrade |
| Competitive research | competitive-intel and price-comparison for market analysis |
| SEO work | seo-audit pairs with our Ahrefs and Search Console connectors |
| Brand monitoring | brand-listening for CorpusIQ mentions across the web |
Limitations / Verification¶
- Publisher-page install counts verified; individual skill audit pages were not fetched for this multi-skill suite
- Most skills require a paid Bright Data account with proxy allocation
- Scraping must respect robots.txt and site terms — the skills do not override that
npx skills add brightdata/skills # verify install works
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