Streamed and file delivery

Configure streamed delivery to receive large snapshot results in real-time batches, or file delivery to retrieve raw page files alongside your scraped data.

This guide shows you how to use two advanced delivery features for scrapers: streamed delivery for large snapshots and file delivery to retrieve raw page files with your data.

Prerequisites:

• A Bright Data account with an active scraper
• Delivery method set to Storage or Webhook (both features require this)

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Streamed delivery

When a snapshot is large, streamed delivery lets you receive results immediately as they’re collected, in batches, rather than waiting for the full snapshot to complete.

Enable streamed delivery

Control panel

1. Open your scraper’s Delivery settings tab.
2. Toggle Stream results on.
3. Enter how many data lines each batch should contain.

Web Scraper API parameter

Add &stream_max_lines=1000 to your Web Scraper API (WSAPI) request:

curl "https://api.brightdata.com/datasets/v3/trigger?dataset_id=<DATASET_ID>&stream_max_lines=1000" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer API_KEY"

Limits

Setting	Value
Minimum batch size	10 lines
Maximum batch size	100,000 lines

Streamed delivery requires a Storage or Webhook delivery method. It is not compatible with API download.

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File delivery

File delivery lets you retrieve raw page files (HTML snapshots, WARC archives, or screenshots) alongside your scraped data.

How to enable file delivery

Add &download_fields= to your WSAPI request with one or more of the available file types:

curl "https://api.brightdata.com/datasets/v3/trigger?dataset_id=<DATASET_ID>&download_fields=html" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer API_KEY"

To request multiple file types, pass them as a comma-separated list:

curl "https://api.brightdata.com/datasets/v3/trigger?dataset_id=<DATASET_ID>&download_fields=html,screenshot" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer API_KEY"

Available file types

Type	Availability	Description
html	Always available	Raw HTML of the scraped page
warc	Not always available	Full WARC archive including request and response
screenshot	Not always available	Screenshot of the page at time of scraping

File delivery works only when the delivery method is set to Storage or Webhook.

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Related

Delivery options

Configure your storage destination and output format

API reference

Full API parameters for triggering and managing snapshots