Updating BrightData
- Updating project.toml
- Fix linting issues (related to the repo configs)s
- Rename package from brightdata -> arcade-brightdata ( also will be
used by PyPI)
- Added to toolkits.txt so it can be deployed
Extra:
- Arcade new templates did not have the extra line at the end, so it has
been added.
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Co-authored-by: Francisco Liberal <francisco@arcade.dev>
# Add Bright Data Web Scraping and Data Extraction Toolkit
## Overview
This PR introduces a comprehensive Bright Data toolkit that provides web
scraping, search, and structured data extraction capabilities through
the Bright Data API.
## Features Added
### Core Tools
1. **`scrape_as_markdown`** - Scrapes any webpage and returns clean
Markdown content
2. **`get_screenshot`** - Captures screenshots of webpages and saves
them locally
3. **`search_engine`** - Advanced search functionality across Google,
Bing, and Yandex with customizable parameters
4. **`web_data_feed`** - Extracts structured data from major platforms
(LinkedIn, Amazon, Instagram, Facebook, X, YouTube, Zillow, Booking.com,
etc.)
### Supporting Infrastructure
- **`BrightDataClient`**
- Error handling
- URL encoding utilities and request optimization
## Technical Details
### Search Engine Capabilities
- Multi-engine support (Google, Bing, Yandex)
- Advanced parameters: language, country, search type (images, shopping,
news)
- Device targeting (mobile, iOS, Android, iPad)
- Pagination and result count control
- Location-based searches
### Structured Data Sources
Supports 13+ data sources including:
- **E-commerce**: Amazon products and reviews
- **Professional**: LinkedIn profiles and companies, ZoomInfo
- **Social Media**: Instagram, Facebook, X (Twitter) content
- **Real Estate**: Zillow property listings
- **Travel**: Booking.com hotel listings
- **Video**: YouTube videos and metadata
## Testing & Validation
- [x] Deployed and tested on personal account
- [x] Tested via ngrok as well
- [x] Verified all tool functions work as expected
- [x] Validated against multiple data sources and search engines
- [x] Confirmed error handling and edge cases
## Security & Best Practices
- Requires proper API key and zone configuration via secrets
## Dependencies
- `requests` - HTTP client
- `arcade_tdk` - Arcade toolkit framework
- Standard library modules: `json`, `time`, `typing`, `urllib.parse`
## Notes
- All tools require `BRIGHTDATA_API_KEY` secret
- Search and scraping tools also require `BRIGHTDATA_ZONE` secret
- Follows Arcade AI toolkit patterns and conventions
- Comprehensive docstrings with examples provided
This toolkit significantly expands Arcade AI's web data capabilities,
enabling users to scrape, search, and extract structured data from
across the web through a single, unified interface.
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Authored-by: meirk-brd
No Oauth, uses Oauth1 and needs a Token and a Api key as secrets.
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Co-authored-by: Francisco Liberal <francisco@arcade.dev>
Co-authored-by: Renato Byrro <rmbyrro@gmail.com>
# Release Candidate 2
## This PR:
- [x] No more confusing 307 redirect logs when using `/mcp` instead of
`/mcp/` (requested by @shubcodes)
- [x] Fix bug in `arcade configure` for Python < 3.12 (reported by
@evantahler
- [x] Fix bug where tools with unsatisfied secret requirements could
still be executed (reported by @evantahler, @shubcodes)
- [x] Auth providers can now be imported via `from
arcade_mcp_server.auth import Reddit` (requested by @shubcodes)
- [x] Add complete E2E oauth flow for tool calls with informational
errors about how to log into arcade and where to go to authorize
(requested by @evantahler, @shubcodes)
- [x] Add OAuth tool in `arcade new`'s generated server (requested by
@shubcodes)
- [x] Standardize on defaulting to running servers on port 8000
- [x] Improve credentials.yaml reading logic
- [x] CLI user friendliness (requested by @Spartee)
- [x] Remove `arcade serve` CLI command
- [x] Fix race condition in `arcade logout`
- [x] Update docs for desired developer onboarding flow
## Next PRs:
- Get `arcade deploy` working for MCP servers. (Command is hidden for
now)
- Rename all occurrences of `toolkit` to `server`/`tools` and rename all
occurrences of `worker` to `server`
Versions:
* arcade-mcp\==1.0.0rc1
* arcade-mcp-server\==1.0.0rc1
* arcade-core\==2.5.0rc1
* arcade-tdk\==2.6.0rc1
* arcade-serve\==2.2.0rc1
### Summary
Adds first-class MCP support across Arcade, introduces a new MCP server
and CLI, unifies the project under the arcade-mcp name, overhauls
templates/scaffolding, and improves developer tooling, secrets
management, and examples.
### Highlights
- **MCP Server & Core**
- New MCP server with stdio and HTTP/SSE transports, session management,
resumability, and lifecycle handling.
- FastAPI-like `MCPApp` for building servers with lazy init; integrated
worker+MCP HTTP app option.
- Middleware system (logging and error handling), robust exception
hierarchy, and Pydantic-based settings.
- Async-safe managers for tools, resources, and prompts backed by
registries and locks.
- Developer-facing, transport-agnostic runtime context interfaces (logs,
tools, prompts, resources, sampling, UI, notifications).
- Conversion from Arcade ToolDefinition to MCP tool schema; OpenAI JSON
tool schema converter.
- Parser supports `@app.tool`/`@app.tool(...)` decorators.
- **CLI**
- New `mcp` command to run MCP servers with stdio or HTTP/SSE.
- New `secret` command to set/list/unset tool secrets (supports .env
input, preserves original casing for lookups).
- `new` command refactored; option to create a full toolkit package with
scaffolding.
- `chat` command removed.
- `serve.py` imports updated to `arcade_serve.fastapi.telemetry`;
version retrieval now uses `arcade-mcp`.
- `show.py` refactor to use new local catalog utilities.
- `display_tool_details` improved: adds “Default” column and handles
nested properties.
- **Configuration & Discovery**
- New `configure.py` to set up Claude Desktop, Cursor, and VS Code to
connect to local or Arcade Cloud MCP servers.
- Discovery utilities to find/install toolkits, build `ToolCatalog`s,
analyze files for tools, load kits from directories (pyproject parsing),
and build minimal toolkits.
- Better handling of provider API key resolution and evaluation suite
loading.
- **Templates & Scaffolding**
- Reorganized template structure (minimal vs full); moved
`.pre-commit-config.yaml`, `.ruff.toml`, license, Makefile, README,
tests, and tools layout to correct paths.
- Minimal template adds `.env.example` for runtime secret injection.
- Template pyproject updated for MCP servers; includes sample server
with greeting and secret-reveal tools.
- Authorization flow in templates simplified.
- **Repo-wide Renaming & Examples**
- Migrates references from `arcade-ai` to `arcade-mcp` across READMEs,
scripts, and package metadata.
- Examples updated (LangChain/LangGraph/AI SDK/TypeScript) and package
name changed to `arcade-mcp-sdk`.
- **Evals & Core Utilities**
- Evals now use OpenAI tooling format (`OpenAIToolList`, `to_openai`);
`tool_eval` takes `provider_api_key`.
- Core utilities: fixed `does_function_return_value` by dedenting before
parse; version bump to `2.5.0rc1` and dependency cleanup.
- **Tooling & CI**
- `setup-uv-env` action splits toolkit vs contrib dependency
installation.
- Pre-commit: excludes `libs/arcade-mcp-server/mkdocs.yml` and
`libs/tests/` from YAML and Ruff hooks; Ruff per-file ignores (e.g.,
C901 in `libs/**/*.py`, TRY400 in server docs paths).
- Makefile updates for uv env setup, quality checks, tests, builds, and
new `shell` target.
- Added Makefile to MCP server library to streamline dev workflow.
- **Cleanup**
- Removed `claude.json` config.
- Simplified stdio entrypoint; removed unused imports (`arcade_gmail`,
`arcade_search`).
### Breaking Changes
- **CLI**: `chat` command removed; use `mcp`, `secret`, and updated
`new`.
- **Naming**: All users should update references from `arcade-ai` to
`arcade-mcp`.
- **Templates**: File paths moved; downstream scripts referencing old
template locations may need updates.
### Getting Started
- Run an MCP server:
- `arcade mcp --stdio --toolkits your_toolkit`
- `arcade mcp --http --toolkits your_toolkit`
- Manage secrets:
- `arcade secret set your_toolkit KEY=value`
- `arcade secret list your_toolkit`
- `arcade secret unset your_toolkit KEY`
- Configure clients:
- `arcade configure` to set up Claude Desktop, Cursor, and VS Code for
local/Arcade Cloud MCP.
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Co-authored-by: Sam Partee <sam@arcade-ai.com>
Co-authored-by: Shub <125150494+shubcodes@users.noreply.github.com>
# [PROD-215](https://app.clickup.com/t/9014390315/PROD-215) 🎫
## Changes
- Removed some try catch blocks from Zendesk tools so the default Httpx
error adaptor can deal with them.
Co-authored-by: Francisco Liberal <francisco@arcade.dev>
As of today, Arcade's toolkits are moving to closed-source.
Toolkit source code remains available upon request for our paying
customers. The history of this repository contains the toolkits as of
their most recent publication under their previous license terms.
## Before
### Tool: ``GoogleNews.SearchNewsStories``
```python
@tool(requires_secrets=["SERP_API_KEY"])
async def search_news_stories(
context: ToolContext,
keywords: Annotated[
str,
"Keywords to search for news articles. E.g. 'Apple launches new iPhone'.",
],
country_code: Annotated[
CountryCode | None,
"2-character country code to search for news articles. "
"E.g. 'us' (United States). "
f"Defaults to '{DEFAULT_GOOGLE_NEWS_COUNTRY}'.",
] = None,
language_code: Annotated[
LanguageCode,
"2-character language code to search for news articles. E.g. 'en' (English). "
f"Defaults to '{DEFAULT_GOOGLE_NEWS_LANGUAGE}'.",
] = DEFAULT_GOOGLE_NEWS_LANGUAGE,
limit: Annotated[
int | None,
"Maximum number of news articles to return. Defaults to None "
"(returns all results found by the API).",
] = None,
) -> Annotated[dict[str, Any]]:
"""Search for news articles related to a given query."""
...
```
### Tool Definition: ``GoogleNews.SearchNewsStories``
```
{
"name": "SearchNewsStories",
"fully_qualified_name": "GoogleNews.SearchNewsStories",
"description": "Search for news articles related to a given query.",
"toolkit": {
"name": "GoogleNews",
"description": "Arcade.dev LLM tools for getting new via Google News",
"version": "2.0.0"
},
"input": {
"parameters": [
{
"name": "keywords",
"required": true,
"description": "Keywords to search for news articles. E.g. 'Apple launches new iPhone'.",
"value_schema": {
"val_type": "string",
"inner_val_type": null,
"enum": null,
},
"inferrable": true
},
{
"name": "country_code",
"required": false,
"description": "2-character country code to search for news articles. E.g. 'us' (United States). Defaults to 'None'.",
"value_schema": {
"val_type": "string",
"inner_val_type": null,
"enum": null,
},
"inferrable": true
},
{
"name": "language_code",
"required": false,
"description": "2-character language code to search for news articles. E.g. 'en' (English). Defaults to 'en'.",
"value_schema": {
"val_type": "string",
"inner_val_type": null,
"enum": null,
},
"inferrable": true
},
{
"name": "limit",
"required": false,
"description": "Maximum number of news articles to return. Defaults to None (returns all results found by the API).",
"value_schema": {
"val_type": "integer",
"inner_val_type": null,
"enum": null,
},
"inferrable": true
}
]
},
"output": {
"description": "News search results with article details.",
"available_modes": [
"value",
"error"
],
"value_schema": {
"val_type": "json"
}
},
"requirements": {
"authorization": null,
"secrets": [
{
"key": "serp_api_key"
}
],
"metadata": null
},
"deprecation_message": null
},
```
## After
### Enhanced Tool: ``GoogleNews.SearchNewsStories``
```python
"""Type definitions for Google News API responses and parameters."""
from typing_extensions import TypedDict
CountryCode = str
LanguageCode = str
class SearchNewsParams(TypedDict):
"""Input parameters for searching news articles."""
keywords: str
"""Search query terms to find relevant news articles \
(e.g., 'Apple launches new iPhone')."""
country_code: CountryCode | None
"""Optional 2-letter country code to filter news by region \
(e.g., 'us' for United States, 'uk' for United Kingdom)."""
language_code: LanguageCode | None
"""Optional 2-letter language code to filter news by language \
(e.g., 'en' for English, 'es' for Spanish)."""
limit: int | None
"""Optional maximum number of news articles to return. \
If not specified, returns all results from the API."""
class SourceInfo(TypedDict, total=False):
"""Information about the news source/publication."""
name: str
"""Name of the publication (e.g., 'CNN', 'BBC News', 'The New York Times')."""
icon: str
"""URL to the source's favicon or logo image."""
authors: list[str]
"""List of author names for the article, if available."""
class NewsResult(TypedDict, total=False):
"""Individual news article from the Google News API response."""
position: int
"""Ranking position of this result in the search results."""
title: str
"""Headline or title of the news article."""
link: str
"""Full URL to the original news article."""
source: SourceInfo
"""Information about the publication source."""
date: str
"""Publication date and time (e.g., '2 hours ago', 'Dec 15, 2023')."""
snippet: str
"""Brief excerpt or summary from the article content."""
thumbnail: str
"""URL to a high-resolution thumbnail image for the article."""
thumbnail_small: str
"""URL to a low-resolution thumbnail image for the article."""
story_token: str
"""Token for accessing full coverage of this news story across multiple sources."""
stories: list["NewsResult"]
"""Related news stories from other sources covering the same topic."""
highlight: dict
"""Additional highlighted information about the story."""
class SearchMetadata(TypedDict, total=False):
"""Metadata about the search request and processing."""
id: str
"""Unique identifier for this search request within SerpApi."""
status: str
"""Current processing status ('Processing', 'Success', or 'Error')."""
json_endpoint: str
"""URL to retrieve the JSON results for this search."""
created_at: str
"""Timestamp when the search request was created."""
processed_at: str
"""Timestamp when the search request was processed."""
google_news_url: str
"""Original Google News URL that would return these results."""
total_time_taken: float
"""Total time in seconds taken to process this search."""
class SearchParameters(TypedDict, total=False):
"""Parameters used for the search request."""
engine: str
"""Search engine used (always 'google_news' for this API)."""
q: str
"""Search query string."""
gl: str
"""Country code used for geographic filtering."""
hl: str
"""Language code used for language filtering."""
topic_token: str
"""Token for accessing specific news topics (e.g., 'World', 'Business', 'Technology')."""
publication_token: str
"""Token for accessing news from specific publishers."""
class MenuLink(TypedDict):
"""Navigation link for news categories or topics."""
title: str
"""Display text for the menu item (e.g., 'Technology', 'Sports', 'Business')."""
topic_token: str
"""Token to access this specific topic or category."""
serpapi_link: str
"""SerpApi URL to search within this topic."""
class TopStoriesLink(TypedDict):
"""Link to top stories section."""
topic_token: str
"""Token to access top stories."""
serpapi_link: str
"""SerpApi URL to retrieve top stories."""
class GoogleNewsResponse(TypedDict, total=False):
"""Complete response from the Google News API."""
search_metadata: SearchMetadata
"""Metadata about the search request and processing."""
search_parameters: SearchParameters
"""Parameters that were used for this search."""
news_results: list[NewsResult]
"""List of news articles matching the search criteria."""
menu_links: list[MenuLink]
"""Navigation links to different news categories and topics."""
top_stories_link: TopStoriesLink
"""Link to access top stories."""
title: str
"""Title of the page or topic being displayed."""
class SimplifiedNewsResult(TypedDict):
"""Simplified news article format for tool output."""
title: str
"""Headline of the news article."""
link: str
"""URL to the full article."""
source: str | None
"""Name of the publication source."""
date: str | None
"""When the article was published."""
snippet: str | None
"""Brief excerpt from the article."""
class SearchNewsOutput(TypedDict):
"""Output format for the search_news_stories tool."""
news_results: list[SimplifiedNewsResult]
"""List of news articles in simplified format."""
@tool(requires_secrets=["SERP_API_KEY"])
async def search_news_stories(
context: ToolContext,
keywords: Annotated[
str,
"Keywords to search for news articles. E.g. 'Apple launches new iPhone'.",
],
country_code: Annotated[
CountryCode | None,
"2-character country code to search for news articles. "
"E.g. 'us' (United States). "
f"Defaults to '{DEFAULT_GOOGLE_NEWS_COUNTRY}'.",
] = None,
language_code: Annotated[
LanguageCode,
"2-character language code to search for news articles. E.g. 'en' (English). "
f"Defaults to '{DEFAULT_GOOGLE_NEWS_LANGUAGE}'.",
] = DEFAULT_GOOGLE_NEWS_LANGUAGE,
limit: Annotated[
int | None,
"Maximum number of news articles to return. Defaults to None "
"(returns all results found by the API).",
] = None,
) -> Annotated[SearchNewsOutput, "News search results with article details."]:
"""Search for news articles related to a given query."""
...
```
### Enhanced Tool Definition: ``GoogleNews.SearchNewsStories``
```json
{
"name": "SearchNewsStories",
"fully_qualified_name": "GoogleNews.SearchNewsStories",
"description": "Search for news articles related to a given query.",
"toolkit": {
"name": "GoogleNews",
"description": "Arcade.dev LLM tools for getting new via Google News",
"version": "2.0.0"
},
"input": {
"parameters": [
{
"name": "keywords",
"required": true,
"description": "Keywords to search for news articles. E.g. 'Apple launches new iPhone'.",
"value_schema": {
"val_type": "string",
"inner_val_type": null,
"enum": null,
"properties": null,
"inner_properties": null,
"description": null
},
"inferrable": true
},
{
"name": "country_code",
"required": false,
"description": "2-character country code to search for news articles. E.g. 'us' (United States). Defaults to 'None'.",
"value_schema": {
"val_type": "string",
"inner_val_type": null,
"enum": null,
"properties": null,
"inner_properties": null,
"description": null
},
"inferrable": true
},
{
"name": "language_code",
"required": false,
"description": "2-character language code to search for news articles. E.g. 'en' (English). Defaults to 'en'.",
"value_schema": {
"val_type": "string",
"inner_val_type": null,
"enum": null,
"properties": null,
"inner_properties": null,
"description": null
},
"inferrable": true
},
{
"name": "limit",
"required": false,
"description": "Maximum number of news articles to return. Defaults to None (returns all results found by the API).",
"value_schema": {
"val_type": "integer",
"inner_val_type": null,
"enum": null,
"properties": null,
"inner_properties": null,
"description": null
},
"inferrable": true
}
]
},
"output": {
"description": "News search results with article details.",
"available_modes": [
"value",
"error"
],
"value_schema": {
"val_type": "json",
"inner_val_type": null,
"enum": null,
"properties": {
"news_results": {
"val_type": "array",
"inner_val_type": "json",
"enum": null,
"properties": null,
"inner_properties": {
"title": {
"val_type": "string",
"inner_val_type": null,
"enum": null,
"properties": null,
"inner_properties": null,
"description": "Headline of the news article."
},
"link": {
"val_type": "string",
"inner_val_type": null,
"enum": null,
"properties": null,
"inner_properties": null,
"description": "URL to the full article."
},
"source": {
"val_type": "string",
"inner_val_type": null,
"enum": null,
"properties": null,
"inner_properties": null,
"description": "Name of the publication source."
},
"date": {
"val_type": "string",
"inner_val_type": null,
"enum": null,
"properties": null,
"inner_properties": null,
"description": "When the article was published."
},
"snippet": {
"val_type": "string",
"inner_val_type": null,
"enum": null,
"properties": null,
"inner_properties": null,
"description": "Brief excerpt from the article."
}
},
"description": "List of news articles in simplified format."
}
},
"inner_properties": null,
"description": null
}
},
"requirements": {
"authorization": null,
"secrets": [
{
"key": "serp_api_key"
}
],
"metadata": null
},
"deprecation_message": null
},
```
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Co-authored-by: Eric Gustin <eric@arcade.dev>
