Brave Search

tools

• brave_image_search

  Performs an image search using the Brave Search API. Helpful when you need pictures of people, places, things, graphic-design ideas, or art inspiration. Counts of up to 100 are supported.

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• brave_llm_context

  Retrieves pre-extracted, relevance-ranked web content using Brave's LLM Context API, optimized for AI agents, LLM grounding, and RAG pipelines. Unlike a traditional web search that returns links and short descriptions, this tool returns the actual substance of matching pages — text chunks, tables, code blocks, and structured data — so the model can reason over it directly. When relaying results in markdown-supporting environments, cite source URLs from the `sources` map.

  in ▸ count query country freshness spellcheck search_lang enable_local context_threshold_mode enable_source_metadata maximum_number_of_urls maximum_number_of_tokens maximum_number_of_snippets maximum_number_of_tokens_per_url maximum_number_of_snippets_per_url

• brave_local_search

  Brave Local Search API returns enriched information (address, phone, hours, rating) for location-search results. Access requires the Brave Search API Pro plan; currently US-only. Two-step flow: first call `brave_web_search` with `result_filter=locations` to obtain `locations.results[].id`, then pass them here. NOTE: This tool takes location IDs from a prior web-search response; if you have a free-text query, call `brave_web_search` first.

  in ▸ ids units ui_lang search_lang

• brave_news_search

  Searches for news articles using Brave's News Search API. Use it when you need current news, breaking updates, or articles about specific topics.

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• brave_place_search

  Searches Brave's Place Search API. A single call may populate any combination of `results` (POIs), `cities`, `addresses`, `streets`, and `location` (the resolved search area), depending on the query shape. Use for POIs near coordinates or a named area, browsing general POIs (omit `query`, supply coords or `location`), disambiguating bare city names, resolving specific addresses, or looking up streets. Anchor via `latitude`+`longitude` or `location`; with neither, `query` is required.

  in ▸ count query units geoloc radius country ui_lang latitude location longitude safesearch spellcheck search_lang

• brave_summarizer

  Retrieves AI-generated summaries of web search results. Two-step flow: first call `brave_web_search` with `summary=true` to obtain `summarizer.key`, then pass it here. Pro AI tier required.

  in ▸ key entity_info

• brave_video_search

  Searches for videos using Brave's Video Search API. Returns structured video results with metadata.

  in ▸ q count offset country ui_lang freshness safesearch spellcheck search_lang

• brave_web_search

  Performs web searches using the Brave Search API and returns comprehensive search results with rich metadata. To chain into local-POI enrichment, pass `result_filter=locations` and feed the resulting `locations.results[].id` values into `brave_local_search`. To chain into the AI summarizer, pass `summary=true` and feed the returned `summarizer.key` into `brave_summarizer`.

  in ▸ q count units offset country summary ui_lang freshness goggles_id safesearch spellcheck search_lang result_filter extra_snippets text_decorations