Introduction to Bright Data's Web Unlocker API

See how Bright Data’s Web Unlocker API simplifies data collection with intelligent proxy management, avoiding blocks while delivering clean HTML/JSON responses

Web Unlocker API is part of our unlocker scraping suite and is designed to help you focus on your data collection while we take care of the full proxy and unblocking infrastructure for you.

You send a single API request with the target website and we’ll return to you a clean HTML/JSON back. It’s that simple!

Behind the scenes, our Web Unlocker’s intelligent algorithm seamlessly manages the dynamic process of finding the optimal proxy network, customizing headers, fingerprinting, CAPTCHAs, and more.

Best for

• Scraping data from any website without getting blocked

• Emulating real-user web behavior to “unlock” websites that use sophisticated detection methods

• Teams that don’t have a scalable proxy & unblocking infrastructure in-house

• Paying only for successful requests

Web Unlocker API is not made for use on browsers or 3rd party tools like Adspower, Puppeteer, Playwright, or Multilogin (MLA). If you need a solution that interacts with a browser and uses tools like this, check out our Scraping Browser solution, or review our other web data products that can give you complete data sets.

If you are looking for an unlocking solution specifically for search engines, check out our SERP API

Did you know?

On Web Unlocker and SERP API, you only pay for successful requests to your target domain—ensuring you get maximum value for every API interaction!