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How to use Bright Data with Cursor

You want Bright Data inside Cursor so it can research a company and its competitors, build a structured prospect list, compare products across online retailers, and monitor search results for a topic — without you copy-pasting between tabs. Here is the whole setup, once.

Create your Bright Data gateway

The gateway is the thing Cursor connects to, and it is where you decide which Bright Data tools an agent may use. You create it once and every client reuses it.

Create an Arcade account

Sign up and open the dashboard. The free tier is enough to follow this through.
Create an MCP Gateway and select your Bright Data tools

In the dashboard, create a gateway and pick the Bright Data tools you want to expose. The gateway is what your client connects to, and it is where tool access is decided.
Copy your gateway URL

Every client below needs it.
```
https://api.arcade.dev/mcp/<YOUR-GATEWAY-SLUG>
```

Create a Bright Data gateway Opens the gateway builder in your Arcade dashboard.

Connect the gateway to Cursor

Heads up

Cursor does not refresh MCP OAuth tokens automatically. For a persistent connection, set Authorization to “Arcade Headers” on the gateway in the dashboard.

Open MCP settings

Command Palette (⌘⇧P / Ctrl+Shift+P) → Open MCP Settings, then click “New MCP Server”.

Add the gateway to mcpServers

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-arcade": {
      "url": "https://api.arcade.dev/mcp/<YOUR-GATEWAY-SLUG>"
    }
  }
}

Try it out

Ask Cursor to use one of your Bright Data tools.

Full Cursor guide in the docs steps verified 2026-08-13

Try these Bright Data prompts

Cursor can now act on your Bright Data account. Click a prompt to copy it.

Treat scraped pages as untrusted input. Use tool permissions with Contextual Access policies so an agent can search and read web content without gaining access to other tools or taking unrelated actions.

How to use Bright Data with Cursor

Create your Bright Data gateway

Create an Arcade account

Create an MCP Gateway and select your Bright Data tools

Copy your gateway URL

Connect the gateway to Cursor

Open MCP settings

Add the gateway to mcpServers

Try it out

Try these Bright Data prompts

Ready to actually ship your agent?