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<h1>Brave Engines<a class="headerlink" href="#brave-engines" title="Link to this heading"></a></h1>
<p>Brave offers two different engines for SearXNG:</p>
<ol class="arabic simple">
<li><p>The standard engine (<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">brave</span></code>) uses the web interface.</p></li>
<li><p>The API engine (<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">braveapi</span></code>) uses the official REST API.</p></li>
</ol>
<section id="module-searx.engines.brave">
<span id="brave-standard-engine"></span><span id="brave-engine"></span><h2>Brave Standard Engine<a class="headerlink" href="#module-searx.engines.brave" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
<p>Brave supports the categories listed in <a class="reference internal" href="#searx.engines.brave.brave_category" title="searx.engines.brave.brave_category"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">brave_category</span></code></a> (General,
news, videos, images). The support of <a class="reference internal" href="#searx.engines.brave.paging" title="searx.engines.brave.paging"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">paging</span></code></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="#searx.engines.brave.time_range_support" title="searx.engines.brave.time_range_support"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span> <span class="pre">range</span></code></a> is limited (see remarks).</p>
<p>Configured <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">brave</span></code> engines:</p>
<div class="highlight-yaml notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">brave</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">engine</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">brave</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">...</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">brave_category</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">search</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">time_range_support</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">true</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">paging</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">true</span>
<span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">brave.images</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">engine</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">brave</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">...</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">brave_category</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">images</span>
<span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">brave.videos</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">engine</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">brave</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">...</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">brave_category</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">videos</span>
<span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">brave.news</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">engine</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">brave</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">...</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">brave_category</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">news</span>
<span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">brave.goggles</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">time_range_support</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">true</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">paging</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">true</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">...</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">brave_category</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">goggles</span>
</pre></div>
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<section id="brave-regions">
<span id="id1"></span><h3>Brave regions<a class="headerlink" href="#brave-regions" title="Link to this heading"></a></h3>
<p>Brave uses two-digit tags for the regions like <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ca</span></code> while SearXNG deals with
locales. To get a mapping, all <em>officiat de-facto</em> languages of the Brave
region are mapped to regions in SearXNG (see <a class="reference external" href="https://babel.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/languages.html#babel.languages.get_official_languages" title="(in Babel v2.2)"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">babel</span></code></a>):</p>
<div class="highlight-python notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="s2">&quot;regions&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="p">{</span>
<span class="o">..</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;en-CA&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;ca&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;fr-CA&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;ca&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="o">..</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>The language (aka region) support of Braves index is limited to very basic
languages. The search results for languages like Chinese or Arabic are of
low quality.</p>
</div>
</section>
<section id="brave-goggles">
<span id="brave-googles"></span><h3>Brave Goggles<a class="headerlink" href="#brave-goggles" title="Link to this heading"></a></h3>
<p>Goggles allow you to choose, alter, or extend the ranking of Brave Search
results (<a class="reference external" href="https://brave.com/static-assets/files/goggles.pdf">Goggles Whitepaper</a>). Goggles are openly developed by the community
of Brave Search users.</p>
<p>Select from the <a class="reference external" href="https://search.brave.com/goggles/discover">list of Goggles</a> people have published, or create your own
(<a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/brave/goggles-quickstart">Goggles Quickstart</a>).</p>
</section>
<section id="brave-languages">
<span id="id2"></span><h3>Brave languages<a class="headerlink" href="#brave-languages" title="Link to this heading"></a></h3>
<p>Braves language support is limited to the UI (menus, area local notations,
etc). Braves index only seems to support a locale, but it does not seem to
support any languages in its index. The choice of available languages is very
small (and its not clear to me where the difference in UI is when switching
from en-us to en-ca or en-gb).</p>
<p>In the <a class="reference internal" href="../enginelib.html#searx.enginelib.traits.EngineTraits" title="searx.enginelib.traits.EngineTraits"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">EngineTraits</span> <span class="pre">object</span></code></a> the
UI languages are stored in a custom field named <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ui_lang</span></code>:</p>
<div class="highlight-python notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="s2">&quot;custom&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="p">{</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;ui_lang&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="p">{</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;ca&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;ca&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;de-DE&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;de-de&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;en-CA&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;en-ca&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;en-GB&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;en-gb&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;en-US&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;en-us&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;es&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;es&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;fr-CA&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;fr-ca&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;fr-FR&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;fr-fr&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;ja-JP&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;ja-jp&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;pt-BR&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;pt-br&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;sq-AL&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;sq-al&quot;</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
<span class="p">},</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</section>
<section id="implementations">
<h3>Implementations<a class="headerlink" href="#implementations" title="Link to this heading"></a></h3>
</section>
<dl class="py data">
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="searx.engines.brave.brave_category">
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">searx.engines.brave.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">brave_category</span></span><span class="property"><span class="p"><span class="pre">:</span></span><span class="w"> </span><a class="reference external" href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#typing.Literal" title="(in Python v3.14)"><span class="pre">Literal</span></a><span class="p"><span class="pre">[</span></span><span class="s"><span class="pre">'search'</span></span><span class="p"><span class="pre">,</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s"><span class="pre">'videos'</span></span><span class="p"><span class="pre">,</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s"><span class="pre">'images'</span></span><span class="p"><span class="pre">,</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s"><span class="pre">'news'</span></span><span class="p"><span class="pre">,</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s"><span class="pre">'goggles'</span></span><span class="p"><span class="pre">]</span></span></span><span class="property"><span class="w"> </span><span class="p"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="pre">'search'</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#searx.engines.brave.brave_category" title="Link to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Brave supports common web-search, videos, images, news, and goggles search.</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">search</span></code>: Common WEB search</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">videos</span></code>: search for videos</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">images</span></code>: search for images</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">news</span></code>: search for news</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">goggles</span></code>: Common WEB search with custom rules, requires a <a class="reference internal" href="#searx.engines.brave.Goggles" title="searx.engines.brave.Goggles"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Goggles</span></code></a> URL.</p></li>
</ul>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py data">
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="searx.engines.brave.Goggles">
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">searx.engines.brave.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">Goggles</span></span><span class="property"><span class="p"><span class="pre">:</span></span><span class="w"> </span><a class="reference external" href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str" title="(in Python v3.14)"><span class="pre">str</span></a></span><span class="property"><span class="w"> </span><span class="p"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="pre">''</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#searx.engines.brave.Goggles" title="Link to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>This should be a URL ending in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">.goggle</span></code></p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py data">
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="searx.engines.brave.brave_spellcheck">
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">searx.engines.brave.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">brave_spellcheck</span></span><span class="property"><span class="w"> </span><span class="p"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="pre">False</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#searx.engines.brave.brave_spellcheck" title="Link to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Brave supports some kind of spell checking. When activated, Brave tries to
fix typos, e.g. it searches for <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">food</span></code> when the user queries for <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fooh</span></code>. In
the UI of Brave the user gets warned about this, since we can not warn the user
in SearXNG, the spellchecking is disabled by default.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py data">
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="searx.engines.brave.paging">
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">searx.engines.brave.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">paging</span></span><span class="property"><span class="w"> </span><span class="p"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="pre">False</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#searx.engines.brave.paging" title="Link to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Brave only supports paging in <a class="reference internal" href="#searx.engines.brave.brave_category" title="searx.engines.brave.brave_category"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">brave_category</span></code></a> <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">search</span></code> (UI
category All) and in the goggles category.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py data">
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="searx.engines.brave.max_page">
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">searx.engines.brave.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">max_page</span></span><span class="property"><span class="w"> </span><span class="p"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="pre">10</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#searx.engines.brave.max_page" title="Link to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Tested 9 pages maximum (<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">&amp;offset=8</span></code>), to be save max is set to 10. Trying
to do more wont return any result and you will most likely be flagged as a bot.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py data">
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="searx.engines.brave.time_range_support">
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">searx.engines.brave.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">time_range_support</span></span><span class="property"><span class="w"> </span><span class="p"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="pre">False</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#searx.engines.brave.time_range_support" title="Link to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Brave only supports time-range in <a class="reference internal" href="#searx.engines.brave.brave_category" title="searx.engines.brave.brave_category"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">brave_category</span></code></a> <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">search</span></code> (UI
category All) and in the goggles category.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py function">
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="searx.engines.brave.fetch_traits">
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">searx.engines.brave.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">fetch_traits</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">engine_traits</span></span><span class="p"><span class="pre">:</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n"><a class="reference internal" href="../enginelib.html#searx.enginelib.traits.EngineTraits" title="searx.enginelib.traits.EngineTraits"><span class="pre">EngineTraits</span></a></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="reference internal" href="../../../_modules/searx/engines/brave.html#fetch_traits"><span class="viewcode-link"><span class="pre">[source]</span></span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#searx.engines.brave.fetch_traits" title="Link to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Fetch <a class="reference internal" href="#brave-languages"><span class="std std-ref">languages</span></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="#brave-regions"><span class="std std-ref">regions</span></a> from Brave.</p>
</dd></dl>
</section>
<section id="module-searx.engines.braveapi">
<span id="brave-api-engine"></span><span id="braveapi-engine"></span><h2>Brave API Engine<a class="headerlink" href="#module-searx.engines.braveapi" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
<p>Engine to search using the Brave (WEB) Search API.</p>
<section id="configuration">
<h3>Configuration<a class="headerlink" href="#configuration" title="Link to this heading"></a></h3>
<p>The engine has the following mandatory setting:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#searx.engines.braveapi.api_key" title="searx.engines.braveapi.api_key"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">api_key</span></code></a></p></li>
</ul>
<p>Optional settings are:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#searx.engines.braveapi.results_per_page" title="searx.engines.braveapi.results_per_page"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">results_per_page</span></code></a></p></li>
</ul>
<div class="highlight-yaml notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">braveapi</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">engine</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">braveapi</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">api_key</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&#39;YOUR-API-KEY&#39;</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># required</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">results_per_page</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">20</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># optional</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>The API supports paging and time filters.</p>
</section>
<dl class="py data">
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="searx.engines.braveapi.api_key">
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">searx.engines.braveapi.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">api_key</span></span><span class="property"><span class="p"><span class="pre">:</span></span><span class="w"> </span><a class="reference external" href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str" title="(in Python v3.14)"><span class="pre">str</span></a></span><span class="property"><span class="w"> </span><span class="p"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="pre">''</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#searx.engines.braveapi.api_key" title="Link to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>API key for Brave Search API (required).</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py data">
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="searx.engines.braveapi.results_per_page">
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">searx.engines.braveapi.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">results_per_page</span></span><span class="property"><span class="p"><span class="pre">:</span></span><span class="w"> </span><a class="reference external" href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#int" title="(in Python v3.14)"><span class="pre">int</span></a></span><span class="property"><span class="w"> </span><span class="p"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="pre">20</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#searx.engines.braveapi.results_per_page" title="Link to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Maximum number of results per page (default 20).</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py data">
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="searx.engines.braveapi.base_url">
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">searx.engines.braveapi.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">base_url</span></span><span class="property"><span class="w"> </span><span class="p"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="pre">'https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search'</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#searx.engines.braveapi.base_url" title="Link to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Base URL for the Brave Search API.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py data">
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="searx.engines.braveapi.time_range_map">
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">searx.engines.braveapi.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">time_range_map</span></span><span class="property"><span class="w"> </span><span class="p"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="pre">{'day':</span> <span class="pre">'past_day',</span> <span class="pre">'month':</span> <span class="pre">'past_month',</span> <span class="pre">'week':</span> <span class="pre">'past_week',</span> <span class="pre">'year':</span> <span class="pre">'past_year'}</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#searx.engines.braveapi.time_range_map" title="Link to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Mapping of SearXNG time ranges to Brave API time ranges.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py function">
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="searx.engines.braveapi.init">
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">searx.engines.braveapi.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">init</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">_</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="reference internal" href="../../../_modules/searx/engines/braveapi.html#init"><span class="viewcode-link"><span class="pre">[source]</span></span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#searx.engines.braveapi.init" title="Link to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Initialize the engine.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py function">
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="searx.engines.braveapi.request">
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">searx.engines.braveapi.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">request</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">query</span></span><span class="p"><span class="pre">:</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n"><a class="reference external" href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str" title="(in Python v3.14)"><span class="pre">str</span></a></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">params</span></span><span class="p"><span class="pre">:</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n"><a class="reference internal" href="../../../src/searx.search.processors.html#searx.search.processors.online.OnlineParams" title="searx.search.processors.online.OnlineParams"><span class="pre">OnlineParams</span></a></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span> <span class="sig-return"><span class="sig-return-icon">&#x2192;</span> <span class="sig-return-typehint"><a class="reference external" href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/constants.html#None" title="(in Python v3.14)"><span class="pre">None</span></a></span></span><a class="reference internal" href="../../../_modules/searx/engines/braveapi.html#request"><span class="viewcode-link"><span class="pre">[source]</span></span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#searx.engines.braveapi.request" title="Link to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Create the API request.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py function">
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="searx.engines.braveapi.response">
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">searx.engines.braveapi.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">response</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">resp</span></span><span class="p"><span class="pre">:</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n"><a class="reference internal" href="../../extended_types.html#searx.extended_types.SXNG_Response" title="searx.extended_types.SXNG_Response"><span class="pre">SXNG_Response</span></a></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span> <span class="sig-return"><span class="sig-return-icon">&#x2192;</span> <span class="sig-return-typehint"><a class="reference internal" href="../index.html#searx.result_types.EngineResults" title="searx.result_types.EngineResults"><span class="pre">EngineResults</span></a></span></span><a class="reference internal" href="../../../_modules/searx/engines/braveapi.html#response"><span class="viewcode-link"><span class="pre">[source]</span></span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#searx.engines.braveapi.response" title="Link to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Process the API response and return results.</p>
</dd></dl>
<p>The API engine requires an API key from Brave. This can be obtained from the
<a class="reference external" href="https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/">API Dashboard</a>.</p>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#">Brave Engines</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#module-searx.engines.brave">Brave Standard Engine</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#brave-regions">Brave regions</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#brave-goggles">Brave Goggles</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#brave-languages">Brave languages</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#implementations">Implementations</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#searx.engines.brave.brave_category"><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">brave_category</span></code></a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#searx.engines.brave.Goggles"><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Goggles</span></code></a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#searx.engines.brave.brave_spellcheck"><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">brave_spellcheck</span></code></a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#searx.engines.brave.paging"><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">paging</span></code></a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#searx.engines.brave.max_page"><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">max_page</span></code></a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#searx.engines.brave.time_range_support"><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time_range_support</span></code></a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#searx.engines.brave.fetch_traits"><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fetch_traits()</span></code></a></li>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#module-searx.engines.braveapi">Brave API Engine</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#configuration">Configuration</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#searx.engines.braveapi.api_key"><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">api_key</span></code></a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#searx.engines.braveapi.results_per_page"><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">results_per_page</span></code></a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#searx.engines.braveapi.base_url"><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">base_url</span></code></a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#searx.engines.braveapi.time_range_map"><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time_range_map</span></code></a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#searx.engines.braveapi.init"><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">init()</span></code></a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#searx.engines.braveapi.request"><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">request()</span></code></a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#searx.engines.braveapi.response"><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">response()</span></code></a></li>
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