Web Search
Skill Verified ActiveUSE FOR web search. Returns ranked results with snippets, URLs, thumbnails. Supports freshness filters, SafeSearch, Goggles for custom ranking, pagination. Primary search endpoint.
To provide a powerful and customizable web search capability for AI agents, enabling them to retrieve ranked, relevant information with structured data and advanced filtering options.
Features
- Perform web searches with ranked results
- Return snippets, URLs, and thumbnails
- Support freshness filters (past day, week, month, year)
- Apply SafeSearch levels (off, moderate, strict)
- Enable custom ranking with Goggles
- Handle pagination through results
Use Cases
- Integrating general-purpose web search into AI agent workflows
- Retrieving structured data like products, recipes, and reviews
- Performing targeted searches by filtering results by type, language, or country
- Customizing search result ranking using Brave's Goggles feature
Non-Goals
- Providing AI-generated answers (use the 'answers' skill for this)
- Extracting only pre-compiled LLM context (use the 'llm-context' skill for this)
- Performing image, news, or video specific searches (use dedicated skills for these)
Installation
First, add the marketplace
/plugin marketplace add brave/brave-search-skills/plugin install brave-search-skills@brave-searchQuality Score
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