How to Integrate Bright Data With Strands Agents

Strands Agents is an open-source Python library that provides a unified toolkit for developing autonomous AI agents. It bridges the gap between large language models and practical applications by offering ready-to-use tools for file operations, system execution, API interactions, mathematical operations, and more.

Steps to Get Started

1. Prerequisites

   • Bright Data API Key
   • Python 3.10+
2. Installation

   Set up the strands-agents-tools package by either using the quick pip install or the full development installation with virtual environment and pre-commit hooks.

   Quick Install

   pip install strands-agents-tools
   

3. Set the environment variable

   Set your Bright Data API key and unlocker zone as an environment variables:

   export BRIGHT_DATA_API_KEY="your_api_key_here"
   export BRIGHT_DATA_ZONE="your_unlocker_zone_here"
   

4. Bright Data Usage Examples

   Using bright data tools within an agent

   Sample Code

   from strands import Agent
   from strands.models.litellm import LiteLLMModel
   import strands_tools.bright_data as bright_data
   import os
   from dotenv import load_dotenv
   
   
   load_dotenv()
   
   
   def main():
   load_dotenv()
   print("🔍 Testing Bright Data Tool with OpenAI GPT-4o via LiteLLM")
   print("=" * 50)
   
   # Configure OpenAI model via LiteLLM
   openai_model = LiteLLMModel(
       client_args={
           "api_key": os.getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY"), 
       },
       model_id="openai/gpt-4o",
   )
   
   # Create agent with LiteLLM model and bright_data tool
   agent = Agent(
       model=openai_model,
       tools=[bright_data],
       system_prompt="you are a helpful Web Search assistant, whenever user asks you to search the web you will use avilable tools, always set zone name to 'unlocker'"
   )
   
   # Test the bright_data tool with a relevant query
   print("Testing web scraping...")
   result = agent("Please scrape the content from https://example.com and return it as markdown")
   print(f'\n\nScraping Result:\n{result}')
   
   print("\n" + "=" * 50)
   print("Testing web search...")
   result2 = agent("Please search Google for 'Python programming tutorials")
   print(f'\n\nSearch Result:\n{result2}')
   
   
   if __name__ == "__main__":
   main()