brave_web_search
brave_web_searchSearch the web for general information, news, videos, discussions, and local businesses. Returns comprehensive results with titles, descriptions, URLs, and optional filters for country, language, freshness, and safe search.
Instructions
Performs web searches using the Brave Search API and returns comprehensive search results with rich metadata.
When to use:
- General web searches for information, facts, or current topics
- Location-based queries (restaurants, businesses, points of interest)
- News searches for recent events or breaking stories
- Finding videos, discussions, or FAQ content
- Research requiring diverse result types (web pages, images, reviews, etc.)
Returns a JSON list of web results with title, description, and URL.
When the "results_filter" parameter is empty, JSON results may also contain FAQ, Discussions, News, and Video results.Input Schema
TableJSON Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| query | Yes | Search query (max 400 chars, 50 words) | |
| country | No | Search query country, where the results come from. The country string is limited to 2 character country codes of supported countries. | US |
| search_lang | No | Search language preference. The 2 or more character language code for which the search results are provided. | en |
| ui_lang | No | The language of the UI. The 2 or more character language code for which the search results are provided. | en-US |
| count | No | Number of results (1-20, default 10). Applies only to web search results (i.e., has no effect on locations, news, videos, etc.) | |
| offset | No | Pagination offset (max 9, default 0) | |
| safesearch | No | Filters search results for adult content. The following values are supported: 'off' - No filtering. 'moderate' - Filters explicit content (e.g., images and videos), but allows adult domains in search results. 'strict' - Drops all adult content from search results. The default value is 'moderate'. | moderate |
| freshness | No | Filters search results by when they were discovered. The following values are supported: 'pd' - Discovered within the last 24 hours. 'pw' - Discovered within the last 7 days. 'pm' - Discovered within the last 31 days. 'py' - Discovered within the last 365 days. 'YYYY-MM-DDtoYYYY-MM-DD' - Timeframe is also supported by specifying the date range e.g. 2022-04-01to2022-07-30. | |
| text_decorations | No | Whether display strings (e.g. result snippets) should include decoration markers (e.g. highlighting characters). | |
| spellcheck | No | Whether to spellcheck the provided query. | |
| result_filter | No | Result filter (default ['web', 'query']) | |
| goggles | No | Goggles act as a custom re-ranking on top of Brave's search index. The parameter supports both a url where the Goggle is hosted or the definition of the Goggle. For more details, refer to the Goggles repository (i.e., https://github.com/brave/goggles-quickstart). | |
| units | No | The measurement units. If not provided, units are derived from search country. | |
| extra_snippets | No | A snippet is an excerpt from a page you get as a result of the query, and extra_snippets allow you to get up to 5 additional, alternative excerpts. Only available under Free AI, Base AI, Pro AI, Base Data, Pro Data and Custom plans. | |
| summary | No | This parameter enables summary key generation in web search results. This is required for summarizer to be enabled. |