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How to use Bright Data with VS Code

You want Bright Data inside VS Code so it can research competitor pricing, build a qualified company list, monitor market changes, and extract structured product data — without you copy-pasting between tabs. Here is the whole setup, once.

Create your Bright Data gateway

The gateway is the thing VS Code 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.

  1. Create an Arcade account

    Sign up and open the dashboard. The free tier is enough to follow this through.

  2. 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.

  3. 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 VS Code

  1. Add the server

    VS Code 1.107.0 or higher. Command Palette → MCP: Add Server… → choose HTTP, paste your gateway URL, and name it something like mcp-arcade.

  2. Start it and authenticate

    Click Start next to the server in mcp.json or under Extensions → MCP Servers - Installed, then approve the Arcade sign-in and consent screens.

  3. Try it out

    Open the chat pane, switch to Agent mode, and ask it to use one of your Bright Data tools.

Full VS Code guide in the docs steps verified 2026-08-13

Try these Bright Data prompts

VS Code 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.

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