Brave Search

Web search and content extraction using the official Brave Search API. No browser required.

Setup

Requires a Brave Search API account with a free subscription. A credit card is required to create the free subscription (you won't be charged).

1. •Create an account at https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/register
2. •Create a "Free AI" subscription (2,000 queries/month free)
3. •Create an API key
4. •Add to your agenix secrets (secrets/env-vars.age):
   bash

   export BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY="your-api-key-here"
   

5. •Dependencies are pre-installed via Nix (no manual npm install needed)

Search

{baseDir}/search.js "query"                         # Basic search (5 results)
{baseDir}/search.js "query" -n 10                   # More results (max 20)
{baseDir}/search.js "query" --content               # Include page content as markdown
{baseDir}/search.js "query" --freshness pw          # Results from last week
{baseDir}/search.js "query" --freshness 2024-01-01to2024-06-30  # Date range
{baseDir}/search.js "query" --country DE            # Results from Germany
{baseDir}/search.js "query" -n 3 --content          # Combined options

Options

• •-n <num> - Number of results (default: 5, max: 20)
• •--content - Fetch and include page content as markdown
• •--country <code> - Two-letter country code (default: US)
• •--freshness <period> - Filter by time:
  • •pd - Past day (24 hours)
  • •pw - Past week
  • •pm - Past month
  • •py - Past year
  • •YYYY-MM-DDtoYYYY-MM-DD - Custom date range

Extract page content

{baseDir}/content.js https://example.com/article

Fetches a URL and extracts readable content as markdown.

Output format

--- Result 1 ---
Title: Page Title
Link: https://example.com/page
Age: 2 days ago
Snippet: Description from search results
Content: (if --content flag used)
  Markdown content extracted from the page...

--- Result 2 ---
...

--- Rate Limit Info ---
Requests remaining: 1999/2000
Plan quota remaining: 1999/2000
Resets at: 2/6/2026, 12:00:00 AM

Rate Limits (Free Plan)

• •2,000 queries/month included free
• •1 query/second rate limit
• •Rate limit info shown after each search
• •Paid plans available at https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/plans

When to use

• •Searching for documentation or API references
• •Looking up facts or current information
• •Fetching content from specific URLs
• •Any task requiring web search without interactive browsing