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Hosted MCP

1

Get your API token

  1. Go to Bright Data user settings
  2. Copy your API token (it looks like: 2dceb1aa0***************************)
2

Install LlamaIndex MCP Toolkit 

pip install llama-index-tools-mcp
3

Configure your MCP server

import asyncio
from llama_index.tools.mcp import BasicMCPClient

async def main():
    http_client = BasicMCPClient("https://mcp.brightdata.com/mcp?token=<API_TOKEN>")

    # List tools
    tools = await http_client.list_tools()
    print("Tools:", tools)

    # Call a tool
    result = await http_client.call_tool("scrape_as_markdown", {"url":"https://docs.llamaindex.ai/en/stable/examples/tools/mcp/"})
    print("Result:", result)

asyncio.run(main())
4

Test it works

  1. Run your LlamaIndex script with the manual tool calling
  2. You should see the requested URL in markdown
5

Monitor usage

  1. View your API usage at My Zones in your Bright Data dashboard
  2. Your free tier includes 5,000 requests per month