The Web Unlocker is an automated website-unlocking system built on Bright Data's residential proxy network. It includes CAPTCHA solving, automatic retries, and fingerprint management — and you only pay for successful requests.
About
Web Unlocker is designed for high-scale web data collection that requires extracting data from hard-to-scrape pages through a single API. It optimizes each request's journey automatically, handling blocks, bans, and CAPTCHAs behind the scenes.
Best For
- High-scale web data collection via an API
- Extracting data from hard-to-scrape, heavily protected pages
Key Benefits
- Avoid blocks, bans, and CAPTCHAs automatically
- 99.99% success rate — pay only for successful requests
- Automatic retries and fingerprint management
- Easily integrated into any third-party crawler software
- Structured data delivered in JSON or HTML
- 99.9% network uptime with 24/7 support
Designed for Any Use Case
- Web scraping: Scrape any public website at a 99.99% success rate, paying only for successful requests, with easy API integration in any language.
Web Unlocker vs. the Scraping Browser
Both products share Bright Data's unblocking engine. Choose the Web Unlocker when you want a simple request/response API for hard-to-reach pages; choose the Scraping Browser when you need full browser automation (Playwright, Puppeteer, or Selenium) for JavaScript-heavy, interactive sites.
Conclusion
Web Unlocker is the simplest way to get past anti-bot defenses without managing proxies or CAPTCHA solvers yourself — a single API call in, structured data out, billed only on success.
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