How to connect Brightdata MCP with VS Code

Connect VS Code to Brightdata MCP. Download all product listings from this ecommerce site, check crawl status for your recent job, and more using natural language, with authentication handled for you.

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Brightdata is a leading web data platform offering advanced scraping, SERP APIs, and anti-bot tools. It lets you collect public web data at scale, bypassing blocks and friction.

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How to connect Brightdata MCP with VS Code

VS Code is the most popular code editor out there. With its recent AI makeover, it can do more than just help you write code. You can connect your applications to it and let LLMs automate many of the mundane tasks in your workflow.

In this guide, I will explain how to connect Brightdata with VS Code in the most secure and robust way possible via Composio.

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Why use Composio?

Composio provides:

  • Access to 1,500+ managed apps from a single MCP endpoint. This makes it convenient for agents to run cross-app workflows.
  • Programmatic tool calling. Allows LLMs to write its code in a remote workbench to handle complex tool chaining. Reduces to-and-fro with LLMs for frequent tool calling.
  • Large tool response handling outside the LLM context. This minimizes context bloat from large tool responses.
  • Dynamic just-in-time access to thousands of tools across hundreds of apps. Composio loads the tools your agent needs, so LLMs are not overwhelmed by tools they do not need.

Integrate Brightdata MCP with VS Code

1. Install with one click

Click the button below to add Composio to VS Code. You will be prompted to authorize. This requires VS Code 1.99+ with GitHub Copilot.

+Install in VS Code

2. Or add manually

Open or create .vscode/mcp.json in your project root and add the following configuration:

bash
{
  "servers": {
    "composio": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://connect.composio.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

3. Authorize

Click the install button to authorize VS Code to connect to Composio. VS Code will detect OAuth and prompt you to sign in.

VS Code MCP server install screen for Composio

A browser window will open to authorize.

Composio authorization browser window

4. Authenticate Brightdata and start working

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

For example, ask it 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 to Brightdata.

That is it. Composio tools are now available in VS Code, and your Brightdata account is ready to use.

Way Forward

Now that Brightdata is connected, extend your setup by connecting the other apps you already use every day, so your agent can run true cross-app workflows end to end.

  • Connect Calendar to turn threads into scheduled meetings automatically.
  • Connect Slack or Teams to post summaries, approvals, and alerts where your team works.
  • Connect Notion, Linear, Jira, or Asana to convert requests into tickets, tasks, and docs.
  • Connect Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive to fetch, file, and share attachments without manual steps.
  • Connect HubSpot or Salesforce to log customer context, update records, and draft follow-ups.

Start with one workflow you do repeatedly, then keep adding apps as you find new handoffs. With everything behind a single MCP endpoint, your agent can coordinate multiple tools safely and reliably in one conversation.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Brightdata action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Start Site Crawl

Start an asynchronous dataset or site crawl.

Create Safe Zone

Create a durable SERP API or Scraping Browser zone using a fixed safe plan.

List Marketplace Datasets

List pre-built datasets in Bright Data's marketplace for structured scraping.

Filter Dataset

Create a billable filtered marketplace-dataset snapshot.

Get Customer Balance

Get current and pending Bright Data account balances.

Get Dataset Metadata

Retrieve field definitions for a Bright Data marketplace dataset.

Get Deep Lookup Results

Retrieve enriched records plus available progress, cost, and provider metadata for a completed Deep Lookup request.

Get Deep Lookup Status

Check a Deep Lookup request's status, progress, cost, and provider metadata.

List Available Cities

List static-network cities available for a country and proxy pool type.

List Available Countries

List country codes available for each static proxy zone type.

Get SERP Results

Retrieve JSON or raw results for an asynchronous BRIGHTDATA_SERP_SEARCH request.

Download Snapshot Results

Download a completed dataset snapshot.

Check Snapshot Status

Check whether a dataset snapshot is running, ready, or failed before downloading it.

Get Web Archive Search

Get a Web Archive search's status and its matching-file, dump-size-in-bytes, and dump-cost-in-USD estimates.

Get Zone Bandwidth

Get uploaded, downloaded, and total byte usage for one zone and date range.

Get Zone Cost

Get invoice-aligned billed cost and bandwidth for one zone and date range.

List Scraper Studio Scrapers

List account-owned Scraper Studio scrapers and discover collector IDs.

List Unlocker Zones

List configured Web Unlocker zones and their types for protected-URL scraping.

Scrape Data Synchronously

Scrape up to 20 input objects synchronously.

Search Web Archive

Search Bright Data's Web Archive and estimate matching files, dump size in bytes, and dump cost in USD.

Search SERP

Submit an asynchronous SERP search and return its response_id.

Start Deep Lookup

Start an asynchronous Deep Lookup research request and return its request_id.

Scrape Protected URL

Scrape a public URL through Web Unlocker when ordinary requests are blocked or require JavaScript rendering.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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.

Yes, you can. VS Code 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.

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.

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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