Brave API endpoint
Use Crawlora's Search Brave news results API to extract supported public Brave data as structured JSON. This page includes request parameters, cURL examples, response schema, error behavior, credit cost, and a Playground link for testing before integration.
/brave/newsReturns normalized Brave news search results for a query string. Locale defaults to country=us and lang=en-us. Results are fetched from public Brave Search news HTML and return 503 when Brave serves a challenge page or unusable HTML. Developers commonly use this endpoint for data enrichment, monitoring, research dashboards, internal automation, and AI-agent workflows that need repeatable structured public web data. Authentication uses the documented Crawlora headers, and usage is metered with the credit cost shown on this page.
Request parameters are generated from the active endpoint catalog. Required values must be sent before Crawlora can call the upstream public web data source.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| q | string | Yes | Search query | openai | |
| offset | integer | No | 0 | Zero-based Brave result page; defaults to 0 Minimum: 0. | 0 |
| count | integer | No | 10 | Results to return; defaults to 10, clamped to 1..50 Minimum: 1. Maximum: 50. | 10 |
| country | string | No | us | Brave result country; defaults to us Allowed values: all, ar, at, au, be, br, ca, ch, cl, cn, de, dk, es, fi, fr, gb, gr, hk, id, in, it, jp, kr, mx, my, nl, no, nz, ph, pl, pt, ru, sa, se, sg, tr, tw, us, za | us |
| lang | string | No | en-us | Brave UI language; defaults to en-us Allowed values: de-de, en-ca, en-gb, en-in, en-us, fi-fi, fr-ca, fr-fr, ja-jp, pt-br, sq-al, sw-ke, zh-tw | en-us |
| time_range | string | No | Preset time filter: any, day, week, month, year, or custom Allowed values: any, day, week, month, year, custom | ||
| date_from | string | No | Custom start date in YYYY-MM-DD; requires date_to | 2026-03-01 | |
| date_to | string | No | Custom end date in YYYY-MM-DD; requires date_from | 2026-03-30 | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/brave/news?q=openai&offset=0&count=10&country=us&lang=en-us&time_range=any&date_from=2026-03-01&date_to=2026-03-30" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Send your scraping API key in the x-api-key header. Use the console API Keys page to rotate or select the active key.
Endpoint usage is metered in credits. The plan prices, included credits, limits, and overage rates below match the active backend billing configuration.
| Plan | Price | Included credits | Daily cap | Rate limit | Overage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 2,000 | 500 daily credits | 5/min | No overage |
| Starter | $9/mo | 20,000 | 5,000 daily credits | 15/min | $0.75/1,000 overage credits when enabled |
| Growth | $29/mo | 100,000 | 25,000 daily credits | 45/min | $0.45/1,000 overage credits when enabled |
| Pro | $79/mo | 400,000 | No daily cap | 120/min | $0.30/1,000 overage credits |
| Business | $199/mo | 1,200,000 | No daily cap | 300/min | $0.20/1,000 overage credits |
| Enterprise | $499/mo | 5,000,000 | No daily cap | 1,000/min | $0.12/1,000 overage credits |
This endpoint is executed through Crawlora's managed scraping infrastructure.
- Challenge pages, bot blocks, malformed Brave bootstrap data, and parser drift return `503`. - Empty first-page parser output is only treated as no results when Brave includes an explicit no-results marker. Example response: ```json { "code": 200, "msg": "OK", "data": { "results": [ { "position": 1, "title": "OpenAI announces update", "url": "https://example.com/openai-news", "description": "OpenAI announced an update.", "source": "Example News", "hostname": "example.com", "thumbnail": "https://imgs.search.brave.com/example-thumb.jpg", "age": "2 hours ago" } ], "pagination": { "offset": 0, "next_offset": 1 } } } ```
Crawlora does not silently return bad data when the upstream page cannot be used.
| Status | Common failure case |
|---|---|
| 400 | Invalid input or missing required parameter |
| 429 | Plan or endpoint rate limit exceeded |
| 500 | Internal execution error |
| 502 | Upstream platform failed, returned unusable HTML, or served a challenge page that could not be resolved |
When possible, Crawlora returns structured error context so your integration can retry, back off, or inspect the request.
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | Missing or invalid query | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 404 | No results found | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 429 | Rate limit exceeded | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 500 | Internal server error | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 503 | Brave upstream request failed | #/definitions/app.Response |
{
"code": 200,
"msg": "OK",
"data": {
"results": [
{
"position": 1,
"title": "OpenAI announces update",
"url": "https://example.com/openai-news",
"description": "OpenAI announced an update.",
"source": "Example News",
"hostname": "example.com",
"thumbnail": "https://imgs.search.brave.com/example-thumb.jpg",
"age": "2 hours ago"
}
],
"pagination": {
"offset": 0,
"next_offset": 1
}
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/brave.newsResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| code | integer | No | 200 | |||
| data | brave.NewsResponse | No | ||||
| data.pagination | brave.SearchPagination | No | ||||
| data.pagination.next_offset | integer | No | 1 | |||
| data.pagination.offset | integer | No | 0 | |||
| data.pagination.previous_offset | integer | No | 0 | |||
| data.results | array | No | ||||
| data.results[].age | string | No | 2 hours ago | |||
| data.results[].description | string | No | OpenAI announced an update. | |||
| data.results[].favicon | string | No | https://imgs.search.brave.com/example.ico | |||
| data.results[].hostname | string | No | www.example.com | |||
| data.results[].path | string | No | technology > ai | |||
| data.results[].position | integer | No | 1 | |||
| data.results[].source | string | No | Reuters | |||
| data.results[].thumbnail | string | No | https://imgs.search.brave.com/example-thumb.jpg | |||
| data.results[].title | string | No | OpenAI announces update | |||
| data.results[].url | string | No | https://example.com/openai-news | |||
| msg | string | No | OK |
Use environment variables for secrets and keep Crawlora API keys server-side.
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/brave/news?q=openai&offset=0&count=10&country=us&lang=en-us&time_range=any&date_from=2026-03-01&date_to=2026-03-30" \
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