How to connect Brightdata to Claude Cowork

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Introduction

Cowork is Anthropic's AI agent for knowledge work. Think of it as Claude Code for everything else. It works autonomously with your computer, local files, and applications to accomplish complex tasks.

This guide walks you through the easiest and most secure way to connect your Brightdata account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to download all product listings from this ecommerce site, check crawl status for your recent job, perform Google SERP search for latest news, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Connecting Brightdata to Claude Cowork

1. Open Customize

In Claude Desktop, click Customize in the left sidebar, then select Connectors and click the + icon at the top.

Claude Desktop connectors screen with Add custom connector selected

2. Add the Composio MCP server

Click Add custom connector and paste in the Composio MCP server URL:

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https://connect.composio.dev/mcp
Add custom connector dialog with Composio MCP server URL

3. Authorize in your browser

Click Connect. You'll be redirected to a browser window where you can authorize Composio to continue.

Composio authorization screen for Claude Cowork

4. Connect your Brightdata account

Back in Cowork, ask the agent to connect to Brightdata or give it any Brightdata-related task.

For example, ask Cowork to:

  • "Download all product listings from this ecommerce site"
  • "Check crawl status for your recent job"
  • "Perform Google SERP search for latest news"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

That's it. Composio's tools are now available in Cowork, and your Brightdata account is ready to use.

What is Claude Cowork?

Claude Cowork is Anthropic's agent for general knowledge work. It can use your computer, files, and connected applications to complete longer-running tasks across your work tools.

With Composio Connect, Cowork can securely access apps like Brightdata through MCP without you sharing account credentials directly with the agent.

What is the Brightdata MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Brightdata MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Brightdata account. It provides structured and secure access to Brightdata’s web data platform, so your agent can trigger site crawls, run SERP searches, filter and download datasets, and manage proxy endpoints on your behalf.

  • Automated site crawling and extraction: Start large-scale crawl jobs across multiple web pages or entire domains, letting your agent collect structured data from the internet with just a prompt.
  • Access to pre-made marketplace scrapers: Browse and select from Brightdata’s collection of pre-built scrapers for popular websites, making it easy to gather structured data without building your own scrapers from scratch.
  • Filtered dataset generation and download: Apply custom filters to datasets, check crawl job status, and retrieve the exact data you need by downloading processed results once ready.
  • Powerful SERP and web unlocker tools: Perform real-time SERP searches across various engines and leverage web unlocker zones to bypass anti-bot protections and scrape challenging websites.
  • Proxy zone and location management: List available proxy zones, cities, and countries to configure how and where your data collection jobs run, optimizing for speed and success.

Supported Tools & Triggers

Tools
Trigger Site CrawlTool to trigger a site crawl job to extract content across multiple pages or entire domains.
Browse Available ScrapersTool to list all available pre-made scrapers (datasets) from bright data's marketplace.
Filter DatasetTool to apply custom filter criteria to a marketplace dataset (beta).
Get Available CitiesTool to get available static network cities for a given country.
Get Available CountriesTool to list available countries and their iso 3166-1 alpha-2 codes.
Download Scraped DataTool to retrieve the scraped data from a completed crawl job by snapshot id.
Check Crawl StatusTool to check the processing status of a crawl job using snapshot id.
List Unlocker ZonesTool to list your configured web unlocker zones and proxy endpoints.
SERP SearchTool to perform serp (search engine results page) searches across different search engines.
Web UnlockerTool to bypass bot detection, captcha, and other anti-scraping measures to extract content from websites.

Available tools and triggers

After setup, the supported Brightdata tools and triggers listed on this page are available to Cowork through Composio Connect.

You can now ask Cowork to handle Brightdata workflows in natural language, from quick summaries and drafting tasks to more complex multi-step work across connected apps.

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FAQ

What are the differences in Tool Router MCP and Brightdata MCP?

With a standalone Brightdata MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Brightdata tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Brightdata and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Can I use Tool Router MCP with Claude Cowork?

Yes, you can. Claude Cowork fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Brightdata tools.

Can I manage the permissions and scopes for Brightdata while using Tool Router?

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Brightdata scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

How safe is my data with Composio Tool Router?

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Brightdata data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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