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Summary

Searches Brave’s news index for a required query and returns the API response body. Optionally scope results by country and language, set the result count and offset, and apply freshness, safe search, spellcheck, extra snippets, or Goggles ranking.

Inputs

  • Query (required) — Search term or phrase, up to 400 characters and 50 words; it cannot be empty.
  • Count — Requested number of news results, from 1 to 50; defaults to 20 and fewer may be returned.
  • Additional Parameters: Country — Country to scope results to, chosen from the supported country codes; defaults to US.
  • Additional Parameters: Search Language — Language of the search query, chosen from the supported language codes; defaults to English (en).
  • Additional Parameters: User Interface Language — Preferred language and region for the response, chosen from the supported locale codes; defaults to en-US.
  • Additional Parameters: Offset — Number of result sets to skip, from 0 to 9; defaults to 0. Combine with Count to paginate.
  • Additional Parameters: Spellcheck — Whether to enable query spellcheck; defaults to true.
  • Additional Parameters: Safe Search — Content filtering level: off, moderate, or strict; defaults to moderate.
  • Additional Parameters: Freshness — Limit results to all time, the past 24 hours, 7 days, month, or year; defaults to all time.
  • Additional Parameters: Extra Snippets — Whether to request up to five alternative excerpts per result; defaults to false and is available only on specified Brave subscription plans.
  • Additional Parameters: Goggles — One or more Goggle URLs for custom reranking of Brave’s search index.

Output shape

A list of n8n items, each containing the corresponding Brave API response body in its json field.

Runs one news search for each incoming item. If Continue On Fail is enabled, a failed item is returned with its original input JSON and error; otherwise the node throws an error.

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