brave_web_search
brave_web_searchSearch the web for facts, news, locations, videos, and discussions; return linked results with metadata for research, citations, and current-topic answers.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.) | |
| query | Yes | Search query (max 400 chars, 50 words) | |
| units | No | The measurement units. If not provided, units are derived from search country. | |
| offset | No | Pagination offset (max 9, default 0) | |
| country | No | Search query country, where the results come from. The country string is limited to 2 character country codes of supported countries. | US |
| 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. Multiple goggle URLs and/or definitions can be provided in an array. For more details, refer to the Goggles repository (i.e., https://github.com/brave/goggles-quickstart). | |
| summary | No | This parameter enables summary key generation in web search results. This is required for summarizer to be enabled. | |
| ui_lang | No | The language of the UI. The 2 or more character language code for which the search results are provided. | en-US |
| 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. | |
| 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 |
| spellcheck | No | Whether to spellcheck the provided query. | |
| search_lang | No | Search language preference. The 2 or more character language code for which the search results are provided. | en |
| result_filter | No | Result filter (default ['web', 'query']) | |
| 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. | |
| text_decorations | No | Whether display strings (e.g. result snippets) should include decoration markers (e.g. highlighting characters). |