Brave Search

Headless web search and content extraction using Brave Search. No browser required. This skill exists to provide a reliable, reusable web lookup tool that behaves consistently across agents and projects, even though Codex can search when explicitly enabled; it standardizes the search/extract workflow so it is portable and predictable.

Setup

Run once before first use:

bash

cd /home/vnkbr/.codex/skills/brave-search
npm ci

Needs env: BRAVE_API_KEY. If missing, ./search.js exits with a missing key error.

Alt install: if this repo is mirrored elsewhere, cd <that>/skills/brave-search before npm ci.

Search

bash

./search.js "query"                    # Basic search (5 results)
./search.js "query" -n 10              # More results
./search.js "query" --content          # Include page content as markdown
./search.js "query" -n 3 --content     # Combined

Extract Page Content

bash

./content.js https://example.com/article

Fetches a URL and extracts readable content as markdown.

Output Format

code

--- Result 1 ---
Title: Page Title
Link: https://example.com/page
Snippet: Description from search results
Content: (if --content flag used)
  Markdown content extracted from the page...

--- Result 2 ---
...

How to run

bash

./search.js "steipete" -n 1

Success looks like: a --- Result 1 --- block with a non-empty Title/Link.