brave-search
Brave Search API wrapper
Decision gist · record as of 2026-08-14
Yes, with conditions. The package is actively maintained, has low install friction, and fills a clear need for privacy-preserving search integration. However, the license is unclear—verify the actual terms before use in proprietary contexts. The note that it is 'under active development' suggests the API surface may change; pin your version if stability is critical. No known vulnerabilities and reasonable dependency choices make it safe to try.AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying
Before you install
- Requires a Brave API key, passed via BRAVE_API_KEY environment variable or as an argument to the Brave class.
- Low install friction with a pure-Python wheel distribution.
- Active maintenance with recent commits and no known vulnerabilities.
License · maintenance · safety
(unclear) — License status is unclear—no SPDX identifier or raw license text is recorded in the package metadata. Verify the actual license before use in proprietary or restricted contexts.
last release 2024-04-27 (839 days) · last repo commit 2026-05-17 · 90 stars
0 known vulnerabilities (OSV.dev, 2026-08-14) · 88,161 downloads/mo, #13,745 on PyPI
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pip install brave-search
from brave import Brave
brave = Brave()
search_results = brave.search(q="cobalt mining", count=10)
web_results = search_results.web_results- Whether the package is production-ready given the note 'under active development, functionality may change'.
- Actual license terms and compatibility with your use case (license metadata is unclear).
- Performance and rate-limit behavior under typical usage loads.
What it is and what it does
brave-search is a Python client for the Brave Search API, which provides privacy-preserving search results as an alternative to Google Search. The package wraps Brave's REST endpoints and returns structured data for web, news, and video results. It supports both synchronous and asynchronous request patterns, letting you choose based on your application's concurrency model.
Beyond basic search, the package includes convenience methods for extracting and aggregating data from results—downloading PDFs found in results, extracting product prices and review scores, and applying Brave Goggles (custom re-ranking rules) to alter result ordering. Configuration is straightforward: pass your API key as an environment variable or constructor argument, then call search() with your query and optional parameters like result count or country filter.
Use it for
- Build a privacy-focused search application or metasearch tool that queries Brave instead of tracking-heavy alternatives.
- Extract and aggregate product pricing or review data from search results for price comparison or market research.
- Apply custom Goggles to re-rank search results for domain-specific queries (e.g., academic sources, thought leadership).
- Integrate privacy-preserving search into an async Python application without blocking I/O.
- Download and process PDFs discovered in search results for document research or archival workflows.
Worth the install?
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Yes, with conditions.
The package is actively maintained, has low install friction, and fills a clear need for privacy-preserving search integration. However, the license is unclear—verify the actual terms before use in proprietary contexts. The note that it is 'under active development' suggests the API surface may change; pin your version if stability is critical. No known vulnerabilities and reasonable dependency choices make it safe to try.
Install
brave-search on PyPI
Before you install
Low install friction with a pure-Python wheel distribution. Active maintenance with recent commits and no known vulnerabilities. Six runtime dependencies (requests, httpx, tenacity, pydantic, pytest-asyncio, numpy) are all stable, widely-used packages.
Requires a Brave API key, passed via BRAVE_API_KEY environment variable or as an argument to the Brave class.
License in practice
License status is unclear—no SPDX identifier or raw license text is recorded in the package metadata. Verify the actual license before use in proprietary or restricted contexts.
Quickstart
pip install brave-search
from brave import Brave
brave = Brave()
search_results = brave.search(q="cobalt mining", count=10)
web_results = search_results.web_resultsVerify before relying
- Whether the package is production-ready given the note 'under active development, functionality may change'.
- Actual license terms and compatibility with your use case (license metadata is unclear).
- Performance and rate-limit behavior under typical usage loads.
Package facts
| License | Not declared unclear |
| Python support | Supports the current Python release <4.0,>=3.8 |
| Install friction | Low. Pure-Python wheel |
| Runtime dependencies | 6 packagesrequestshttpxtenacitypydanticpytest-asyncionumpy |
| Maintenance | Actively maintained 839 days since the last release |
| Last repo commit | |
| First released | |
| Downloads | 88,161 / month, #13,745 on PyPI 30-day window, as of 2026-08-14 |
| Known vulnerabilities | None known OSV.dev, checked 2026-08-14 |
| Classifiers | Programming Language :: Python :: 3Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9 |
Evidence: brave_search-0.2.0-py3-none-any.whl
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