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title: "Brave / Search the web"
description: "Brave Search tool brave-search-res-web-search on looot: input fields, $0.005 per call, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python."
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Returns web results from Brave's independent index, with optional news, videos, FAQ, discussions and infobox blocks. Send q; country, search_lang, freshness, count and result_filter refine it. Charged per request.

- **Tool id:** `brave-search-res-web-search`
- **Provider:** [Brave Search](/providers/brave-search)
- **Job:** [Search the web and get ranked results](/reference/jobs/web-search) (`web.search`)
- **Price:** $0.005 per call. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

## Inputs

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `count` | integer | no | Number of results (web up to 20). |
| `country` | string | no | Two-letter country code, e.g. US, FR. |
| `freshness` | string | no | pd (day), pw (week), pm (month), py (year) or YYYY-MM-DDtoYYYY-MM-DD. |
| `offset` | integer | no | Page offset (0-9). |
| `q` | string | yes | Search query (max 400 characters, 50 words). |
| `result_filter` | string | no | Comma list of result types: web, news, videos, faq, discussions, infobox, locations, summarizer. |
| `safesearch` | string | no | off, moderate or strict. |
| `search_lang` | string | no | Language of results, e.g. en, fr. |
| `summary` | boolean | no | true to get a summarizer key for /res/v1/summarizer/search (Pro plans). |

## Output

Shape of the run's `result`, checked against 20 real answers:

```txt
{ faq: { type, results: { url, title, answer, meta_url: { ... }, question }[] }, web: { type, results: { qa: { ... }, age, faq: { ... }, url, type, title, video: { ... }, article: { ... }, cluster: { ... }[], is_live, profile: { ... }, subtype, language, location: { ... }, meta_url: { ... }, page_age, software: { ... }, thumbnail: { ... }, description, cluster_type, deep_results: { ... }, organization: { ... }, creative_work: { ... }, extra_snippets: string[], is_source_both, family_friendly, is_source_local }[], family_friendly }, type, mixed: { top: unknown[], main: { all, type, index }[], s... ...
```

The shape is cut here. Signed in, `looot inspect brave-search-res-web-search` prints all of it.

## Run it

Every call needs your API token in `LOOOT_TOKEN`; [Sign in](/get-started/sign-in#use-the-token-in-scripts-and-agents) shows how to get one. Each run also needs a new idempotency key, so a retry never pays twice. With `wait: 30` the answer comes back inline when the run ends within 30 seconds. Otherwise you get the running run back: poll `GET /v1/runs/<runId>`.

Example input with placeholder values:

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```bash curl
curl -X POST "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOOOT_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{"endpointId":"brave-search-res-web-search","input":{"q":"<q>"},"wait":30}'
```

```js JavaScript
const response = await fetch("https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.LOOOT_TOKEN}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    endpointId: "brave-search-res-web-search",
    input: {
      q: "<q>",
    },
    wait: 30,
  }),
});
const run = await response.json();
console.log(run.status, run.result);
```

```python Python
import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['LOOOT_TOKEN']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "endpointId": "brave-search-res-web-search",
        "input": {
            "q": "<q>",
        },
        "wait": 30,
    },
    timeout=90,
)
run = response.json()
print(run["status"], run.get("result"))
```

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To let looot pick among every provider of this job instead, send `job:web.search` as `endpointId`; see [the job page](/reference/jobs/web-search).