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Join the Real-Time AI Agents Challenge powered by n8n and Bright Data: $5,000 in prizes across FIVE winners!

Jess Lee on August 13, 2025

We're thrilled to partner with n8n and Bright Data to bring the community a brand new challenge! Running through August 31, the Real-Time AI Agent...

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Peter Kim Frank The DEV Team • Aug 13 '25

Huge fan and regular personal user of both n8n + Bright Data. Really excited to see what folks build.

Nikoloz Turazashvili (@axrisi) • Aug 13 '25

Another opportunity to learn new technology. Don't miss out guys :)

Aditya • Aug 16 '25

I'm also participating this time. I'm planning to make something wow.

Evan Dickinson • Aug 18 '25

This is actually amazing. I know exactly what I’m going to build with this. A leads gen engine but also so much more. It actually fits nicely with my hustle project currently

Phil Rentier Digital • Aug 17 '25 • Edited

Using n8n this :

You get a json file, including the html body tag

Then you can parse it to get easily Google Results

Easy with Brightdata + n8n

Phil | inforeole

Evan Dickinson • Aug 18 '25

If I’m not mistaken you’d need to actual html to get the links. Usually links are in anchor tags (). I don’t actually know any dedicated html parsers in js(like bs4 in python) so that’d be something to figure out.

William Carlson • Sep 11 '25

Wait, who won!? I missed the post.

Jess Lee The DEV Team • Sep 11 '25

The winners were just announced here:

Congrats to the Winners of the Real-Time AI Agents Challenge powered by n8n and Bright Data!

Jess Lee for The DEV Team ・ Sep 11

#devchallenge #ai #n8nbrightdatachallenge #machinelearning

Nikoloz Turazashvili (@axrisi) • Sep 1 '25

I couldn't participate this time unfortunately. was busy working on my project. got funded by VC, news coming soon :)

Wish luck to all participants! Checking all projects now. you guys have built some crazy projects! Love it!

Ashley Childress • Aug 15 '25 • Edited

There's a broken link at the top for [official challenge page](dev.to/challenges/n8nbrightdata-20...). 🫠 Is this supposed to be the same as [rules, guidelines, and FAQ page](dev.to/challenges/brightdata-n8n-2...)?

The broken n8nbrightdata-2025-08-13 is also in the prefill template. 😉

Jess Lee The DEV Team • Aug 15 '25

Thanks, fixed!

Arslan Sarwar • Aug 13 '25

Hi,

I'm based in Pakistan. I'm eligible to participate in this hackathon according to the official Dev rules. I'm unable to access Bright Data Website without VPN. Can you help me with this?

Thanks,
Muhammad Arslan

Aditya • Aug 16 '25

Is there an issue while accessing it through vpn? If not, use vpn

Jackson Kasi • Aug 26 '25 • Edited

Is anyone able to assist with the Bright Data N8N Node for the web unlocker?
I don't get any response for the zone selection.
There is no result from the API

Access and extract data from a specific URL - Zone

Meir • Aug 26 '25

Hi there,

Meir from Bright Data here 👋

Can you please make sure that :

you have a valid bright data api key
the zone web_unlocker1 actually exists in your account (if not, you should create it)
since it is Amazon.in you might want to change the country accordingly, this might be a problem.

If you are still facing any issues after validating the above, please do let me know, I would love to help you solve it !

Jackson Kasi • Aug 27 '25

Thank you for the clarification; I will check it out. Thanks again!

Phil Rentier Digital • Sep 1 '25

Hi, Check this : n8n.io/workflows/8053-create-data-...

You will see how to use it and get responses :-)

Jackson Kasi • Sep 1 '25

Thank you!

Sebastian Van Rooyen • Aug 15 '25

@jess I'm just confirming if this needs to be the Bright Data node or can it use the Bright Data MCP Server as well?

Jess Lee The DEV Team • Aug 15 '25

@sebastiandevelops confirmed that this need to be the Bright Data Verified Node, and not the Bright Data MCP Server.

Abhi • Aug 17 '25

What's the difference between verified node and mcp server?

Peter Kim Frank The DEV Team • Aug 18 '25

The Verified Node is used in the broader automation/workflow, whereas the MCP is specifically leveraged as a "Tool" by the agent itself. You'll still use the Verified Node to pass data forward to be used by the agent.

Abhi • Aug 19 '25 • Edited

@peter So, is it mandatory for the AI agent to use the verified node as a tool? Or the verified node can be used independently? Like scrape a website using brightdata node -> extract data using selectors -> send it to the agent for some AI task

Nadine • Aug 19 '25

This can be done using Brightdata’s node on n8n. You create a scraper on Brightdata, then extract the data on n8n. I find you have to build your scraper independently, if you are building a custom scraper

Nikoloz Turazashvili (@axrisi) • Aug 14 '25

If anyone wondering about Claiming credits, this should help:

Abhi • Aug 21 '25 • Edited

If I need to use the scraping browser API, how do I call the custom browser API using the verified node? I currently don't see a way to do it using verified node.

is there a discord/slack channel to ask questions?

For this, I'll have to use code node though internally it uses brightdata scraping browser api. Is this valid for submission?
For the serp API too, I'll have to use the HTTP request node, the brightdata verified node itself recommends the same. Is this valid for submission?
How to use custom web scrapers built using the verified node in n8n?

I have created an issue for the same - github.com/n8nhackers/n8n-nodes-br...

Abhi • Aug 21 '25

@jess Anyway to contact the hackathon organizer via discord/slack/email?

Jess Lee The DEV Team • Aug 26 '25

@better-boy you can try the n8n discord: discord.gg/n8n

Emmanuella Batubo • Aug 13 '25

The promo code has reached the maximum number of activations

Noah Kalson • Aug 14 '25

Give it a try now, you should be good to go.

Bheta maranatha • Aug 14 '25

I'm in🔥

Suvrajeet Banerjee • Aug 27 '25

Agents building! 🤖

Arya Koste • Aug 30 '25

@jess Can anyone increase the promo code number of activations. It's showing promo code has reached the maximum number of activations.

Arya Koste • Aug 30 '25

The promo code has reached the maximum number of activations

Juansecu • Aug 14 '25

@jess I've seen these challenges for a while, and I want to participate in this one. Is there any required format for the post containing my entry details?

Jess Lee The DEV Team • Aug 14 '25

@juansecu yes, please follow the submission template above.

Juansecu • Aug 23 '25

Thank you so much! Didn't notice it at first, tbh 😂!

Mohit Agnihotri • Aug 14 '25

Promo code issue has been resolved.
Thanks to Noah.

Himanshi Tolani • Aug 29 '25

@peter @jess My brother and I would both like to participate in the contest individually with different automations. Will being siblings impact our candidacy, or will we both still qualify as separate participants?

Peter Kim Frank The DEV Team • Aug 30 '25

You’ll be fine. You can each submit under your own DEV account.

Yalda Khoshpey • Aug 19 '25

interesting🤩

abdlrhman-abdlrahim • Aug 19 '25

i want link of meet that will be at augest 19 12 pm

Ale • Aug 21 '25

Great opportunity 👌

Eminence Technology • Aug 25 '25

This sounds amazing! Excited to see how creative the community gets with real-time AI workflows using n8n and Bright Data. Definitely bookmarking this challenge and looking forward to the livestream!

Denis Kisina • Aug 25 '25

I am very interested in serving as a judge for this competition. Could you please provide information about the application process and requirements?

Veríssimo Cassange • Aug 17 '25

Great initiative! Looking forward to learning n8n through this challenge.

Kresimir Pendic • Aug 14 '25

Good luck to everyone - this sounds like very much fun hackaton - love to see ideas people have

abdlrhman-abdlrahim • Aug 17 '25 • Edited

i was created my account and ready it's nice thing do challenge on new technologies thanks

EDDISON HAYDEN LEWIS • Aug 16 '25

Interesting

Parag Nandy Roy • Aug 14 '25

Love this combo..

Einar César • Aug 14 '25

Awesome! Starting right now!

Benjamin E M • Aug 15 '25

Here is to the Artificial Intelligence that users legally host and own, themselves. Corporations' AI makes no logic. Who agrees? Either way, best of luck, and God bless all.