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News Search

by Brave Search in Search & web

x402 APIFailing, checked 1 h ago

News search over Brave's independent index. Returns recent articles with title, URL, source, and age. Use it for current events, where web search can surface older pages. Pass q, and optionally count, country, and freshness.

GET
https://search.agent.s.brave.app/res/v1/news/search
Price
$0.005
per call in USDC
Uptime
71.9%
last 30 days
Response time
655 ms
747 ms slowest 5%
Last check
Failed
1 h ago, next in 23 h

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Latest check failed 1 h ago: Expected HTTP 402, got 404

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How to call it

GET https://search.agent.s.brave.app/res/v1/news/search

Each call costs $0.005 in USDC on Base, paid with the request over x402.

Run a free test callOne unpaid request, the way an agent sends it. You see the payment challenge it gets back. Nothing is charged.

Example request

From the listing.

GET https://search.agent.s.brave.app/res/v1/news/search?freshness=pm&q=brave+browser

Parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
countintegerNo Default: 20.
countrystringNoCountry code such as US, or ALL
freshnessstringNopd, pw, pm, py, or a range like 2026-01-01to2026-06-30
offsetintegerNoPages of count results to skip
qstringYesSearch query
safesearchstringNo One of: off, moderate, strict. Default: "strict".
search_langstringNoLanguage code such as en

Example response

The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.

{
  "query": {
    "original": "brave browser"
  },
  "results": [
    {
      "age": "4 weeks ago",
      "page_age": "2026-08-28T18:50:00",
      "title": "Brave's browser one-ups Chrome with its new support for email aliases | TechCrunch",
      "type": "news_result",
      "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/28/braves-browser-one-ups-chrome-with-its-new-support-for-email-aliases/"
    }
  ],
  "type": "news"
}

Call it from code

The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.005.

curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://search.agent.s.brave.app/res/v1/news/search?freshness=pm&q=brave+browser'

# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - 'https://search.agent.s.brave.app/res/v1/news/search?freshness=pm&q=brave+browser' \
  | grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decode
JavaScript: pay and call
// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

// Pays at most $0.005 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.005" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.005 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsearch.agent.s.brave.app%2Fres%2Fv1%2Fnews%2Fsearch
const res = await pay("https://search.agent.s.brave.app/res/v1/news/search?freshness=pm&q=brave+browser");
console.log(res.status, await res.text());
Python: pay and call
# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client

# Pays at most $0.005 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.005"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))

with x402_requests(client) as session:
    res = session.get("https://search.agent.s.brave.app/res/v1/news/search?freshness=pm&q=brave+browser")
    print(res.status_code, res.text)

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