What problem does it solve?
This Skill helps you retrieve web data reliably from websites and search surfaces without hand-coding every scraping path, especially when pages are blocked, structured, or spread across many sources.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Web unlocking: Fetch generic pages as HTML, markdown, or screenshots when direct access is needed.
- Platform scraping: Extract structured data from supported platforms like Amazon, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest, Perplexity, ChatGPT, and DigiKey.
- Search and discovery: Use SERP search or AI-driven discovery to find links, entities, and relevant pages from natural-language intent.
- Bulk and historical data: Query datasets for snapshot-based, large-scale retrieval when live scraping is unnecessary.
- Use case: A developer can monitor a competitor’s listings, gather social posts by profile, or find relevant news and product pages from search intent in a Node.js app.
Quick Start
Use the brightdata-sdk-js skill to install @brightdata/sdk and scrape a target URL or run a platform-specific search for the data you need.