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  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"Bright Data: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/bright-data/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/bright-data/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/bright-data.md",
  "title": "Bright Data: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "Bright Data is on the social monitoring map. We record 17 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated Oct. 11, 2026.",
  "period": "Jan. 6, 2023 to Oct. 11, 2026",
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    "summary": "Web Scraper API and prebuilt datasets for LinkedIn profiles, companies, jobs and posts (posts dataset ~132M records). An agent calls the scraper API by dataset_id or buys a snapshot; MCP server wraps the platform.",
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      },
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      "on": "2026-06-11",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Grok Scraper available again after blocking by Grok",
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      "on": "2026-06-01",
      "date_precision": "month",
      "title": "Free tier: 5,000 free credits every month, shared pool across Web Unlocker, SERP, Web Scraper API, Scraper Studio, MCP",
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      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/bright-data/#event-5",
      "on": "2025-11-13",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "LinkedIn restricted public access to Position, Experience and Education fields",
      "summary": "Platform change: those three fields now return cached data; fill rate fell from 50-64% to about 2%. Other fields still scraped live.",
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        "name": "The social monitoring map",
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        "url": "https://docs.brightdata.com/products/scrapers/linkedin/introduction"
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      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/bright-data/#event-6",
      "on": "2025-10-01",
      "date_precision": "month",
      "title": "New social scrapers: Facebook profiles, Reddit profiles, Reddit posts by subreddit",
      "summary": "Week ending 2025-10-31 release notes; also YouTube Podcasts and Explore-page scrapers.",
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        "url": "https://docs.brightdata.com/release-notes.md"
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    },
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      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/bright-data/#event-7",
      "on": "2025-08-12",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Bright Data debuts free tier of The Web MCP (5,000 requests/month)",
      "summary": "Free Web MCP for agents with unblocking; 3-month private beta with 15,000 developers per trade press.",
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        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-bright-data"
      },
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        "name": "SiliconANGLE",
        "url": "https://siliconangle.com/2025/08/12/bright-data-debuts-free-tier-web-mcp-support-real-time-ai-interaction-web/"
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    },
    {
      "id": "event-8",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/bright-data/#event-8",
      "on": "2025-08-07",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "current_company.industry unsupported",
      "summary": "Docs: the current_company.industry field has been unsupported since 2025-08-07.",
      "kind": "Deprecation",
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        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-bright-data"
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        "name": "Bright Data docs",
        "url": "https://docs.brightdata.com/products/scrapers/linkedin/introduction"
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    },
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      "id": "event-9",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/bright-data/#event-9",
      "on": "2025-07-01",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "X Corp. v. Bright Data docket terminated",
      "summary": "CourtListener shows dateTerminated 2025-07-01; reason (settlement, dismissal) not found in opened sources.",
      "kind": "Ruling",
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        "name": "The social monitoring map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-bright-data"
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      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/bright-data/#event-10",
      "on": "2025-04-15",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "brightdata-mcp GitHub repository created",
      "summary": "Open-source Bright Data MCP server repo created; latest release v4.1.0 on 2026-10-20.",
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        "name": "The social monitoring map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-bright-data"
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        "name": "GitHub API",
        "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/brightdata/brightdata-mcp"
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      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/bright-data/#event-11",
      "on": "2025-04-15",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "brightdata/brightdata-mcp repository created",
      "summary": "First public Bright Data MCP server (GitHub). 2,686 stars on 2026-10-23; MIT licence.",
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      "from": {
        "name": "The social monitoring map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-bright-data"
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        "url": "https://github.com/brightdata/brightdata-mcp"
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      "id": "event-12",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/bright-data/#event-12",
      "on": "2024-11-26",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "X Corp. allowed to amend: trespass to chattels, DMCA, CFAA, CDAFA added",
      "summary": "Server-impairment allegations cured the damages gap; scraping claims preempted by copyright stayed dismissed.",
      "kind": "Ruling",
      "from": {
        "name": "The social monitoring map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-bright-data"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Technology & Marketing Law Blog",
        "url": "https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2025/01/catching-up-on-the-heavyweight-scraping-battle-between-x-and-bright-data-guest-blog-post.htm"
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    },
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      "id": "event-13",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/bright-data/#event-13",
      "on": "2024-05-09",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Judge Alsup dismisses X Corp. claims against Bright Data (leave to amend)",
      "summary": "Access claims failed for lack of damages; claims over selling user posts preempted by Copyright Act.",
      "kind": "Ruling",
      "from": {
        "name": "The social monitoring map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-bright-data"
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        "name": "Technology & Marketing Law Blog",
        "url": "https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2024/05/elon-musks-gifts-to-web-scrapers-guest-blog-post.htm"
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    },
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      "id": "event-14",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/bright-data/#event-14",
      "on": "2024-02-26",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Meta drops its case against Bright Data",
      "summary": "Meta moved to withdraw; docket terminated 2024-02-26.",
      "kind": "Ruling",
      "from": {
        "name": "The social monitoring map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-bright-data"
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        "name": "CTech",
        "url": "https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/h1zshv53p"
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    },
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      "id": "event-15",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/bright-data/#event-15",
      "on": "2024-01-23",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Court grants Bright Data summary judgment on Meta's contract claim",
      "summary": "Judge Chen: Meta's terms did not bar logged-out scraping of public data; CAPTCHA bypass differs from password-protected access.",
      "kind": "Ruling",
      "from": {
        "name": "The social monitoring map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-bright-data"
      },
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        "name": "TechCrunch",
        "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/24/court-rules-in-favor-of-a-web-scraper-bright-data-which-meta-had-used-and-then-sued"
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    },
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      "id": "event-16",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/bright-data/#event-16",
      "on": "2023-07-26",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "X Corp. v. Bright Data filed (N.D. Cal. 3:23-cv-03698)",
      "summary": "X Corp. sued Bright Data over scraping X data and selling it.",
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        "name": "The social monitoring map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-bright-data"
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        "name": "CourtListener",
        "url": "https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67637345/x-corp-v-bright-data-ltd/"
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    },
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      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/bright-data/#event-17",
      "on": "2023-01-06",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Meta Platforms v. Bright Data filed (N.D. Cal. 3:23-cv-00077)",
      "summary": "Meta sued over scraping Facebook and Instagram public data.",
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        "name": "The social monitoring map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-bright-data"
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