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An AI teammate for Bright Data.

Connect Bright Data and your Cicada agent works in it for you: 10 Bright Data actions, from looking things up to making changes. Ask from iMessage, WhatsApp, Slack or the app, and keep it read-only if you only want it to look.

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300 free credits. No card. Read-only if you want.

Things to ask about Bright Data
  • What broke in Bright Data overnight, and is it new?
  • Open a Bright Data issue for this bug with the steps from the Slack thread.
  • Summarise this week's Bright Data activity for the standup.
  • Tell me when something in Bright Data needs my attention.
Text it, Slack it, or type it in the app. Swap in your own details.
What Cicada can do in Bright Data

10 Bright Data actions, picked for what you ask.

About Bright Data: Bright Data provides the world's #1 web data platform with Web Unlocker for bypassing anti-bot systems, SERP API for search engine data, and pre-made scrapers for popular websites. Collect any web data at scale.

Reads

6 in all · always allowed
  • Download Scraped Data
    Retrieve the scraped data from a completed crawl job by snapshot id.
  • Browse Available Scrapers
    List all available pre-made scrapers (datasets) from Bright Data's marketplace.
  • Check Crawl Status
    Check the processing status of a crawl job using snapshot id.
  • List Unlocker Zones
    List your configured web unlocker zones and proxy endpoints.
  • Get Available Cities
    Get available static network cities for a given country. use when you need to configure static…
  • Get Available Countries
    List available countries and their iso 3166-1 alpha-2 codes.

Changes

4 in all · off when Bright Data is read-only
  • SERP Search
    Perform serp (search engine results page) searches across different search engines.
  • Web Unlocker
    Bypass bot detection, captcha, and other anti-scraping measures to extract content from websites.
  • Trigger Site Crawl
    Trigger a site crawl job to extract content across multiple pages or entire domains.
  • Filter Dataset
    Apply custom filter criteria to a marketplace dataset (beta).

Showing 10 of 10. Your agent can use every one of them; you don't pick them, you ask for the outcome.

How it works

Connected in a minute. In your control after that.

  1. Connect Bright Data

    Open Connections, find Bright Data and paste an API key from your Bright Data account settings. Cicada checks it works before saving it.

  2. Choose what it may do

    Full, Ask first or Read-only, for the whole workspace. Share Bright Data with the team, or keep it under each person's own login.

  3. Ask from anywhere

    Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, message it in Slack or the app, or put a Bright Data job on a schedule: every morning, every Friday.

Works with your other tools

Bright Data, together with the rest of your stack.

Ask for an outcome that spans apps and your agent pulls from each one, cross-checks them and sends back one answer.

Questions

Bright Data and Cicada, answered.

Does Cicada integrate with Bright Data?

Yes. Bright Data is one of the 888 apps with a page here, and it connects with an API key. Once it's connected, every agent in your workspace can use it from any channel you talk to them on.

How do I connect Bright Data?

Open Connections, find Bright Data and paste an API key from your Bright Data account settings. Cicada checks it works before saving it.

What can Cicada do in Bright Data?

10 actions: 6 that read from Bright Data and 4 that change things in it, for example download scraped data, browse available scrapers, check crawl status. It picks the right ones for what you ask and chains them with your other apps.

Can I stop Cicada changing things in Bright Data?

Yes. In Connections, set Bright Data to Read-only and no agent in your workspace can create, change or delete anything in it; it can still read. Ask first lets it act but makes it check with you before each change.

Can I ask about Bright Data from my phone?

Yes. Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, or message it in Slack or the app. It answers in the same thread, and it can run Bright Data jobs on a schedule, like every morning at 8.

Is my Bright Data data safe?

Your Bright Data login or key is stored on the server and never appears in a conversation. Disconnecting removes it. Every action an agent takes is in your activity log, and your data isn't used to train models.

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