brave-search-python-client 0.2.4

🦁 Brave Search Python Client supporting Web, Image, News and Video search.

🦁 Brave Search Python Client

Overview

Brave Search Python Client supporting Web, Image, News and Video search.

Setup

Installation is as simple as:

uv add brave_search_python_client

If you still prefer pip over uv:

pip install brave_search_python_client

Highlights

• Modern async Python client for Web, Image, Video and News search powered by Brave Search
• Various Examples:
  • Streamlit web application deployed on Streamlit Community Cloud
  • Jupyter notebook
  • Simple Python script
• Thorough validation of both requests and responses (powered by Pydantic)
• Complete reference documenation on Read the Docs
• 100% test coverage including unit and E2E tests (reported on Codecov)
• Matrix tested with Python 3.11, 3.12 and 3.13 to ensure compatibility (powered by Nox)
• 100% compliant with modern linting and formatting standards (powered by Ruff)
• 100% up-to-date dependencies (monitored by Renovate)
• A-grade code quality in security, maintainability, and reliability with 0 technical debt and 0 codesmell (verified by SonarQube)
• 1-liner for installation and execution of command line interface (CLI) via uv(x) or Docker
• Setup for developing inside a devcontainer included (supports VSCode and GitHub Codespaces)
• Later: MCP server to connect Brave Search with Claude Desktop and other MCP clients

Usage Examples

Streamlit App

Try it out! - Show the code

Minimal Python Script:

import asyncio
import json
import os

from dotenv import load_dotenv

from brave_search_python_client import (
    BraveSearch,
    CountryCode,
    ImagesSearchRequest,
    LanguageCode,
    NewsSearchRequest,
    VideosSearchRequest,
    WebSearchRequest,
)

# Load .env file and get Brave Search API key from environment
load_dotenv()
api_key = os.getenv("BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY")
if not api_key:
    raise Exception("BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY not found in environment")


async def search():
    """Run various searches using the Brave Search Python Client (see https://brave-search-python-client.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference_index.html)"""

    # Initialize the Brave Search Python client, using the API key from the environment
    bs = BraveSearch()

    # Perform a web search
    response = await bs.web(WebSearchRequest(q="jupyter"))

    # Print results as JSON
    print("# Web search")
    print("## JSON response")
    print(json.dumps(response.model_dump(), indent=2))

    # Iterate over web hits and render links in markdown
    print("## Iterate and render")
    for result in response.web.results if response.web else []:
        print(f"[{result.title}]({result.url})")

    # Advanced search with parameters
    response = await bs.web(
        WebSearchRequest(
            q="python programming",
            country=CountryCode.DE,
            search_lang=LanguageCode.DE,
        )
    )
    print("# Advanced search results")
    for result in response.web.results if response.web else []:
        print(f"[{result.title}]({result.url})")

    # Search and render images
    print("# Images")
    response = await bs.images(ImagesSearchRequest(q="cute cats"))
    for image in response.results if response.results else []:
        print(f"![{image.source}]({image.url})")

    # Search and render videos
    print("# Videos")
    response = await bs.videos(VideosSearchRequest(q="singularity is close"))
    for video in response.results if response.results else []:
        print(f"![{video.title}]({video.url})")

    # Search and render news
    print("# News")
    response = await bs.news(NewsSearchRequest(q="AI"))
    for item in response.results if response.results else []:
        print(f"![{item.title}]({item.url})")


# Run the async search function
# Alternatively use await search() from an async function
asyncio.run(search())

Show script code - Read the reference documentation

Jupyter Notebook

Show notebook code

Command Line Interface (CLI)

Run with uvx

Create .env file with API key:

./setup--dot-env YOUR_BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY

Show available commands:

uvx brave-search-python-client --help

Search the web for "hello world":

uvx brave-search-python-client web "hello world"

Show options for web search

uvx brave-search-python-client web --help

Search images:

uvx brave-search-python-client images "hello world"

Show options for image search

uvx brave-search-python-client images --help

Search videos:

uvx brave-search-python-client videos "hello world"

Show options for videos search

uvx brave-search-python-client videos --help

Search news:

uvx brave-search-python-client news "hello world"

Show options for news search

uvx brave-search-python-client news --help

Run with Docker

Note: Replace YOUR_BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY with your API key in the following examples.

Show available commands:

docker run helmuthva/brave-search-python-client --help

Search the web:

docker run --env BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY=YOUR_BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY helmuthva/brave-search-python-client web "hello world"

Show options for web search

docker run helmuthva/brave-search-python-client web --help

Search images:

docker run --env BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY=YOUR_BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY helmuthva/brave-search-python-client images "hello world"

Show options for image search

docker run helmuthva/brave-search-python-client images --help

Search videos:

docker run --env BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY=YOUR_BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY helmuthva/brave-search-python-client videos "hello world"

Show options for video search

docker run helmuthva/brave-search-python-client videos --help

Search news:

docker run --env BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY=YOUR_BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY helmuthva/brave-search-python-client news "hello world"

Show options for news search

docker run helmuthva/brave-search-python-client news --help

Extra: MCP Server

TK (To come)

Contributing

Please read our Contributing Guidelines for how to setup your development environment, and guidance for making pull requests.

Resources

• API
• MCP Specification and SDKs

Star History