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Brave Search

Web search and content extraction via Brave Search API. Use for searching documentation, facts, or any web content. Lightweight, no browser required.

Introduction

# Brave Search

Headless web search and content extraction using Brave Search. No browser required.

## Setup

Run once before first use:

```bash cd ~/Projects/agent-scripts/skills/brave-search npm ci ```

Needs env: `BRAVE_API_KEY`.

## Search

```bash ./search.js "query" # Basic search (5 results) ./search.js "query" -n 10 # More results ./search.js "query" --content # Include page content as markdown ./search.js "query" -n 3 --content # Combined ```

## Extract Page Content

```bash ./content.js https://example.com/article ```

Fetches a URL and extracts readable content as markdown.

## Output Format

``` --- Result 1 --- Title: Page Title Link: https://example.com/page Snippet: Description from search results Content: (if --content flag used) Markdown content extracted from the page...

--- Result 2 --- ... ```

## When to Use

- Searching for documentation or API references - Looking up facts or current information - Fetching content from specific URLs - Any task requiring web search without interactive browsing

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