How to integrate Brightdata MCP with Hermes

Hermes is a 24/7 autonomous agent that lives on your computer or server — it remembers what it learns and evolves as your usage grows. This guide explains the easiest and most robust way to connect your Brightdata account to Hermes. You can do this through either Composio Connect CLI or Composio Connect MCP. For personal use we recommend the CLI, but you won't go wrong with MCP either.

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Brightdata is a leading web data platform offering advanced scraping, SERP APIs, and anti-bot tools. It lets you collect public web data at scale, bypassing blocks and friction.

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Introduction

Hermes is a 24/7 autonomous agent that lives on your computer or server — it remembers what it learns and evolves as your usage grows.

This guide explains the easiest and most robust way to connect your Brightdata account to Hermes. You can do this through either Composio Connect CLI or Composio Connect MCP. For personal use we recommend the CLI, but you won't go wrong with MCP either.

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What is Composio Connect?

Composio Connect is a consumer offering that lets anyone plug 1,000+ applications directly into their agent harness — including Hermes. It can:

  • Search and load tools from relevant toolkits on-demand, reducing context usage.
  • Chain multiple tools to accomplish complex workflows via a remote workbench, without excessive back-and-forth with the LLM.
  • Manage app authentication end-to-end with zero manual overhead.

Integrating Brightdata with Hermes

Using Composio Connect CLI

1. Install the Composio CLI

Run the install script directly, or paste https://composio.dev/hermes into your Hermes chat box to have it installed for you.

bash
curl -fsSL https://composio.dev/install | bash
Hermes authenticating with Composio

2. Authenticate

Once the CLI is installed, ask Hermes to authenticate with Composio.

3. Connect to Brightdata

Ask your agent to connect to Brightdata, or simply request any Brightdata-related task. Hermes will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

4. Done. You're all set with a new Brightdata connection.


Using Composio Connect MCP

1. Get your MCP URL and API Key

Go to dashboard.composio.dev and copy your Connect MCP URL and API key.

Copy MCP URL and API key from Composio dashboard

2. Open the Hermes config file

bash
nano ~/.hermes/config.yaml

3. Add the Composio Connect MCP server

bash
mcp_servers:
  composio:
    url: "https://connect.composio.dev/mcp"
    headers:
      x-consumer-api-key: "YOUR_COMPOSIO_API_KEY"
    connect_timeout: 60
    timeout: 180

Save with Ctrl + O, Enter, then exit with Ctrl + X.

4. Restart your Hermes agent

Once restarted, ask your agent to connect to Brightdata or request any Brightdata-related task. It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

5. Done!

What is the Brightdata MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Brightdata MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Brightdata account. It provides structured and secure access to Brightdata’s web data platform, so your agent can trigger site crawls, run SERP searches, filter and download datasets, and manage proxy endpoints on your behalf.

  • Automated site crawling and extraction: Start large-scale crawl jobs across multiple web pages or entire domains, letting your agent collect structured data from the internet with just a prompt.
  • Access to pre-made marketplace scrapers: Browse and select from Brightdata’s collection of pre-built scrapers for popular websites, making it easy to gather structured data without building your own scrapers from scratch.
  • Filtered dataset generation and download: Apply custom filters to datasets, check crawl job status, and retrieve the exact data you need by downloading processed results once ready.
  • Powerful SERP and web unlocker tools: Perform real-time SERP searches across various engines and leverage web unlocker zones to bypass anti-bot protections and scrape challenging websites.
  • Proxy zone and location management: List available proxy zones, cities, and countries to configure how and where your data collection jobs run, optimizing for speed and success.

Way Forward

With Brightdata connected, Hermes can now act on your behalf whenever it detects a relevant task or you ask it to.

From here, you can extend Hermes further:

  • Connect more apps: Calendar, Slack, Notion, Linear, and hundreds of others are available through the same Composio Connect setup. Each new integration compounds what Hermes can do for you.
  • Build workflows across tools: Once multiple apps are connected, Hermes can chain actions together — turn an email into a calendar invite, a Slack message into a Linear ticket, or a meeting note into a follow-up draft.
  • Let it learn your patterns: The more you use Hermes, the better it gets at anticipating how you'd handle recurring tasks. Give it feedback on drafts and decisions, and it will adapt.

If you run into trouble or want to share what you've built, join the community or check out the Docs for deeper configuration options.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Brightdata action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Trigger Site Crawl

Tool to trigger an asynchronous site crawl job to extract content across multiple pages or entire domains.

Browse Available Scrapers

Tool to list all available pre-made scrapers (datasets) from Bright Data's marketplace.

Filter Dataset

Tool to apply custom filter criteria to a marketplace dataset (BETA).

Get Available Cities

Tool to get available static network cities for a given country.

Get Available Countries

Tool to list available countries and their ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes.

Download Scraped Data

Tool to retrieve the scraped data from a completed crawl job by snapshot ID.

Check Crawl Status

Tool to check the processing status of a crawl job using snapshot ID.

List Unlocker Zones

Tool to list your configured Web Unlocker zones and proxy endpoints.

SERP Search

Tool to perform SERP (Search Engine Results Page) searches across different search engines using Bright Data's SERP Scrape API.

Web Unlocker

Tool to bypass bot detection, captcha, and other anti-scraping measures to extract content from websites.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Brightdata MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Brightdata tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Brightdata and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. Hermes fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Brightdata tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Brightdata scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Brightdata data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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