Bright Data, the provider of data extraction tools and services, has expanded its line-up with a new product – Scraping Browser. It aims to simplify data collection from websites with interactive elements.
In a nutshell, Scraping Browser provides access to a fleet of cloud web browsers. Bright Data advertises three main benefits in choosing the tool over in-house browser farms:
- The browsers are hosted on Bright Data’s servers, giving developers the ability to scale up or down as needed without maintaining their own infrastructure.
- You can start browser sessions through an API and control them over the CDP protocol using industry-standard Puppeteer and Playwright libraries. All the interaction features are available, such as scrolling or selecting elements.
- The browsers run in headfull mode and integrate Bright Data’s Web Unlocker technology. This ensures a high success rate without needing to manually manage proxies and browser fingerprinting.
Scraping Browser’s pricing model is based on traffic and runtime. The pay-as-you-go option costs $20/GB + $0.1 for every hour of use, dropping to $15/GB with the more expensive plans.
With this new release, Bright Data targets clients that use multi-step scraping workflows but aren’t ready to migrate to its cloud IDE. The provider’s other API, Web Unlocker, integrates as a proxy server; it lacks interaction features, which had created a gap compared to competing web scraping APIs.
Scraping Browser is available for purchase today.
