Bright Data - Fetch

One URL in, one page out, as markdown, HTML, or a screenshot. Nothing is parsed for you.

Every request is unblocked: IP rotation, browser fingerprints, cookies, CAPTCHA solving and automatic retries, from a country you choose. JavaScript rendering can be forced with the REST body's render parameter. The CLI has no flag for it, so a CLI fetch cannot force rendering (a -f screenshot is still an image of the rendered page).

The call

CLI. The command is bdata scrape, which runs Web Unlocker.

bdata scrape https://example.com/article

Markdown is the default. A first bdata login tries to create cli_unlocker and, when no default is set, stores it as the zone default, so a fresh login on a normal account needs no --zone. It never overwrites a default you already set. A key from agent registration cannot create zones and its account has no cli_unlocker, so run bdata config set default_zone_unlocker agent_unlocker once. An account set up any other way carries its unlocker zone under another name (agent_unlocker from agent registration, mcp_unlocker from the MCP server, any name at all when a person made it by hand): find it by the entry whose "type" is "unblocker" in bdata zones --json, and pass that name. Override with --zone <name>, or BRIGHTDATA_UNLOCKER_ZONE, or bdata config set default_zone_unlocker <name>.

If bdata is not recognized, the CLI is not installed or npm's global directory is not on PATH; both fixes live in the agent-onboarding skill's Install section.

REST. The same request, for any machine with no CLI.