Brave Search Scraper
Spider read search.brave.com in 470 ms without a browser and returned 336 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Local POIs Parameters" and "Local Descriptions Parameters".
Use the `id` values to fetch detailed POI information from the Local Search API endpoints. The `ids` query parameter accepts up to 20 location IDs:`curl "https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/local/pois?ids=1520066f3f39496780c5931d9f7b26a6&ids=d00b153c719a427ea515f9eacf4853a2" \To fetch AI-generated descriptions for locations:`curl "https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/local/descriptions?ids=1520066f3f39496780c5931d9f7b26a6&ids=d00b153c719a427ea515f9eacf4853a2" \### Local POIs ParametersThe Local POIs endpoint (`/local/pois`) supports the following parameters:Location IDs from the web search response (max 20)Search language preference (ISO 639-1, default: `en`)UI language for response (e.g., `en-US`)Measurement units: `metric` or `imperial`### Local Descriptions ParametersThe Local Descriptions endpoint (`/local/descriptions`) accepts only the `ids` parameter (same format as above, max 20).For complete API documentation, see the Local POIs API Reference and Local Descriptions API Reference.Note that the `id` fields of POIs are ephemeral and will expire after approximately 8 hours. Do not store them for later use.Rich Search API responses provide accurate, real-time informationabout the intent of the query. This data is sourced from 3rd-partyAPI providers and includes verticals such as sports, stocks, andA request must be made to the web search endpoint with the query parameter `enable_rich_callback=1`.An example cURL request for the query `weather in munich` is given below.`curl "https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search?q=weather+in+munich&enable_rich_callback=1" \The Web Search API response contains a `rich` field if the query is expected to return rich results. An example of the `rich` field is given below."callback_key": "86d06abffc884e9ea281a40f62e0a5a6"The same call, in code.
The capture above came back as markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on search.brave.com.
import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";
const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://search.brave.com/search?q=web+scraping+tools");
// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();
console.log(data);
await spider.close();import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";
const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
stealth: 2,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://search.brave.com/search?q=web+scraping+tools");
await page.content();
const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
const results = [];
document.querySelectorAll("#results .snippet").forEach((el, i) => {
const title = el.querySelector(".snippet-title")?.textContent?.trim();
const url = el.querySelector(".snippet-url")?.textContent?.trim();
const description = el.querySelector(".snippet-description")?.textContent?.trim();
if (title) results.push({ position: i + 1, title, url, description });
});
const summary = document.querySelector(".ai-summary")?.textContent?.trim();
return JSON.stringify({ summary, total: results.length, results: results.slice(0, 10) });
})()`);
console.log(JSON.parse(data));
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Fields you can pull.
Spider names these from the page. The capture above came back as markdown; the same
call with return_format: "json" returns them as keys.
What search.brave.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000173 to fetch. Pricing is $1 per GB of pre-transformation bandwidth plus $0.001 per CPU minute, so a page like this one lands at a fraction of a cent. Failed requests are billed at $0.
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