What do you like best about the product?

I've found Bright Data to be a very valuable asset for data collection. The platform's robust, easy-to-use web scraping capabilities and extensive proxy network have significantly enhanced my ability to gather data. I've been particularly impressed with the reliability and speed of data collection, especially for large-scale projects. The customer support team is very responsive and has been helpful in resolving issues promptly. The flexible architecture allows for seamless implementation into existing frameworks and settings, minimizing the need for extensive reconfigurations.

What do you dislike about the product?

For those unfamiliar with web scraping, there is a learning period. The documentation helped me get started, though some advanced features took time to understand fully. However, support team is very helpful.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Retrieving public available dara on a large scale.

What do you like best about the product?

It's valuable to leverage multiple vantage points. However, it's crucial to approach this thoughtfully and ethically.

What do you dislike about the product?

you can only send traffic via port 80/443

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

we can measure a bunch of networks

What do you like best about the product?

The platform provides access to a wide range of comprehensive datasets, making it easy to process and prepare them for use. This has been incredibly helpful! The wide range of data and tools available on the platform ensures that there's always a solution to my needs, making it a reliable source of data.

In addition, the customer support team is very responsive and willing to help with any issues or questions that arise.

What do you dislike about the product?

Initially, I had some difficulty understanding how to set the filter options effectively. However, after receiving an explanation, it became much more straightforward to use.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I work in an interdisciplinary research environment where I need to bring together multiple datasets from different sources. Bright Data greatly simplifies my access to these datasets and makes it easy to extract the relevant data. The datasets provided are well organised, which helps me save time and focus on analysis rather than data wrangling. This efficiency has greatly benefited my work.

What do you like best about the product?

As a university chair at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), we rely on Bright Data’s LinkedIn dataset to advance our research on entrepreneurship rankings, specifically assessing the impact of German academic institutions. Using this dataset, we match founder profiles with startups and universities to analyze key factors such as prior experience, gender distribution, cultural diversity, and geographic spread.

The quality and depth of the LinkedIn data have been critical in providing accurate, up-to-date insights into the entrepreneurial landscape. Thanks to Bright Data, we’ve been able to offer a data-driven perspective on important trends like female leadership and the geographic distribution of entrepreneurial activity linked to academia.

Bright Data’s platform is reliable, easy to integrate, and offers the comprehensive, real-time data we need to ensure our research stays relevant. We highly recommend it for any institution looking to perform rigorous, data-backed analysis.

A special thank you to the Bright Initiative for their generous support of our project. Your contributions have been invaluable in helping us drive impactful academic research.

What do you dislike about the product?

While we wish access could extend beyond just public LinkedIn data, this is a limitation beyond Bright Data's control. That said, the platform is reliable, user-friendly, and provides comprehensive real-time data that keeps our research relevant and impactful.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Matching startups to academic instituions while providing details about founder profiles

What do you like best about the product?

Bright Data's products scratch an evident itch: collecting social media platforms' data has been made very hard in practice, despite legislation that makes it mandatory in many geographies.

Many platforms don't have APIs, third party Python libraries are usually not available, reliable or scalable. This left the research community trying to access social media data at scale with the need to reinvent the wheel for every new social media-related project. Bright Data has proven a fantastic answer to this issue.

What do you dislike about the product?

So far, nothing ! Being able to access posts that are behind log-in walls would be appreciated but I understand it might not be legally possible.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Bright Data's products scratch an evident itch: collecting social media platforms' data has been made very hard in practice, despite legislation that makes it mandatory in many geographies.

Many platforms don't have APIs, third party Python libraries are usually not available, reliable or scalable. This left the research community trying to access social media data at scale with the need to reinvent the wheel for every new social media-related project. Bright Data has proven a fantastic answer to this issue.