Integration · Web search and research
AI agents for Brave Search
Search the web, news and images with Brave's independent search index.
- Actions
- 3
- Read
- 3
- Write
- 0
Actions
What your agents can do in Brave Search
3 actions. Each one is a tool your agents can call and a step your workflows can run.
Read 3
Look things up. Nothing changes.
Search the web
Searches the web with Brave and returns web results (title, address, description, age), plus news, discussions, FAQ and an infobox when Brave has them.
Search news
Searches recent news with Brave and returns articles with title, address, description, source and age.
Search images
Searches images with Brave and returns each image's title, the page it is on, its source, a thumbnail and the original image address with its size.
Write 0
Create, change or send.
This tool only reads, so nothing in it changes.
Read only
Every action here only reads, so an agent can look things up in Brave Search but cannot change anything there.
Connection
How it connects
Connect it once in the console, then give it to the agents and workflows that need it.
Paste an API key from your Brave Search account.
What you enter
- API key
Kept safe
- Credentials are stored encrypted with your organization's own keys.
- They are opened only by the process that makes the call, at the moment it runs, and never go into a prompt or the browser.
- Calls go only to the tool's own servers.
Ideas
Ideas to start with
Starting points made only from the actions above. Mix them with any other tool your agents can use.
- 01
Ask about your Brave Search data
Ask a question in plain words. The agent can search the web, search news or search images in Brave Search, then answers with what it found.
- 02
Share what it finds in Slack
Give one agent Brave Search and Slack: it can search the web in Brave Search and post a summary to a Slack channel in the same run.
- 03
Run it as a workflow step
Add "Search the web" to a workflow, and it runs in Brave Search the same way every time, with or without an agent.
Works well with
More Web search and research tools
- Exa3 actionsSearch the web with Exa's AI search engine, read the text of any page, and get cited answers to questions, for research by agents and workflows.
- Tavily3 actionsSearch the web with Tavily's search engine built for AI agents, pull clean content out of web pages, and list the pages of a site.
- Firecrawl5 actionsTurn any web page into clean Markdown, search the web, list a site's pages, and crawl small sites, with Firecrawl.
- Wikipedia10 actionsLook things up on Wikipedia, no key needed: search articles, get an article's summary or its full text as plain text, find it in other languages, see its edit history and how many people read it.
- Google Maps9 actionsFind places and businesses (search by text or nearby, autocomplete, full place details with hours, phone, website and ratings), turn addresses into coordinates and back, plan routes with travel time and distance.
- Apify4 actionsRun Apify Actors (ready-made scrapers and automations for Google Maps, Instagram, Amazon, any website …) and read the data they collect.
FAQ
Brave Search and MyDeepAgents
Can MyDeepAgents connect to Brave Search?
Yes. The Brave Search connector has 3 actions, all of which only read. Your agents can call them as tools, and your workflows can run them as steps.
How do I connect Brave Search?
Paste an API key from your Brave Search account. You'll need: API key. Credentials are stored encrypted with your organization's own keys and are opened only at the moment of a call.
Can an agent change data in Brave Search without asking?
No. Every Brave Search action only reads, so an agent can look things up there but cannot change anything.
Can I use Brave Search in workflows as well as agents?
Yes. Every Brave Search action also works as a step in a workflow, and the same connection serves your agents and your workflows.
Early access
Put Brave Search to work
Connect it in a few minutes, give an agent the actions it needs, and decide which changes wait for a person.