Cherry Studio MCP Tutorial: Add Bright Data for Web Search and Scraping

Bright Data’s Model Context Protocol server extends the open-source Cherry Studio desktop AI client with country-specific web search, access to anti-bot-protected pages, and structured data from pre-built web scrapers. The guide explains how to add the hosted Streamable HTTP server through JSON configuration and browser authorization or API-key headers, or alternatively run the open-source local package through Node.js, while emphasizing that a Connected server must also be manually enabled for each assistant or agent. Recommended configuration includes enabling only needed tools, keeping scraper runs subject to approval, using a tool-capable model, disabling Cherry Studio’s built-in browser when all web requests should use Bright Data, and setting long-running timeouts for content-gate interactions. Suggested system-prompt rules require models to verify prices, dates, and other figures from scraped source pages rather than search snippets, cite every claim, validate article dates for time-limited news requests, and treat webpage instructions as untrusted data. Demonstrations cover cross-country product price comparison, 24-hour news summaries, and documentation notes, while noting that additional verification improves accuracy but increases tool usage, cost, and response time. The guide also outlines agent-specific permissions, optional skills and CLI use, troubleshooting for authorization and transport errors, and spending controls through Bright Data usage limits and a monthly free tier for new MCP users.

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