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Brave Search API endpoints.

Search each vertical, open a place, route between two points, or read a league table.

GETWeb Search5 credits
GETNews Search5 credits
GETVideo Search5 credits
GETImage Search5 credits
GETSimilar Images5 credits
GETSuggestions1 credit
GETAI Answer5 credits
GETPlace Search8 credits
GETPlace Suggestions1 credit
GETPlace Details5 credits
GETPlace Description1 credit
GETDirections1 credit
GETTransit Directions1 credit
GETLeague Standings1 credit
GETLeague Games1 credit
GETTeam Games1 credit
GETGame Details1 credit
GETPopular Goggles1 credit
GETGoggle Search1 credit
GETGoggle Details1 credit

Brave Search live demo.

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Web Search
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Live Brave Search data · 5 free runs per operation each day

Web Search

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Brave Search API questions.

Yes. The live demo above needs no account or API key. You can run each operation up to five times per day and inspect the same response shape your integration receives.

Each page returns 20 ranked results with the news, videos, discussions, FAQ, places, infobox, and AI answer Brave shows beside them, plus related queries. Send pagination.next_cursor for the next page; Brave serves six pages per query.

A web search that triggers an AI answer returns ai_answer.conversation_id. Send it to the AI answer endpoint for the answer in markdown, its cited sources, and follow-up questions.

Web, news, video, and image search take one of 38 countries. Web, news, and video search also take one of eight result languages, which move results mostly outside the US.

Place search returns up to 100 businesses, addresses, and areas within about 8 km of a point. Place details add contact details, opening hours, rating, photos, and reviews, and a separate endpoint returns the AI-written description.

Standings and league games cover football, basketball, baseball, ice hockey, and American football. Team games skip American football, and game details with events, lineups, and statistics cover football and American football.

Place search costs 8 credits. Web, news, video, and image search, similar images, AI answers, and place details cost 5. Every other endpoint costs 1. Credits are charged when Tapline reaches the target and receives a valid response about the requested resource. This includes responses showing that the resource is private, restricted, unavailable, or does not exist. Requests that fail because Tapline is blocked by the target, times out, or encounters an internal error cost 0 credits. New accounts include 100 free credits.

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