🦁 Brave Search Python Client supporting Web, Image, News and Video search.
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🦁 Brave Search Python Client
[!TIP] 📚 Online documentation - 📖 PDF Manual
[!NOTE] 🧠 This project was scaffolded using the template oe-python-template with copier.
Brave Search Python Client supporting Web, Image, News and Video search.
Scaffolding
This Copier template enables you to quickly generate (scaffold) a Python package with fully functioning build and test automation:
- Projects generated from this template can be easily updated to benefit from improvements and new features of the template.
- During project generation, you can flexibly configure naming of the Python distribution, import package, main author, GitHub repository, organization, and many other aspects to match your specific requirements (see copier.yml for all available options).
Development Infrastructure
Projects generated with this template come with a comprehensive development toolchain and quality assurance framework that supports the entire software development lifecycle - from coding and testing to documentation, release management, and compliance auditing. This infrastructure automates routine tasks, enforces code quality standards, and streamlines the path to production:
- Linting with Ruff
- Static type checking with mypy
- Complete set of pre-commit hooks including detect-secrets and pygrep
- Unit and E2E testing with pytest including parallel test execution
- Matrix testing in multiple environments with nox
- Test coverage reported with Codecov and published as release artifact
- CI/CD pipeline automated with GitHub Actions
- CI/CD pipeline can be run locally with act
- Code quality and security checks with SonarQube and GitHub CodeQL
- Dependency monitoring with pip-audit, Renovate, and GitHub Dependabot
- Licenses of dependencies extracted with pip-licenses and published as release artifacts in CSV and JSON format for compliance checks
- Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) generated with cyclonedx-python and published as release artifact
- Version and release management with bump-my-version
- Changelog and release notes generated with git-cliff
- Documentation generated with Sphinx including reference documentation and PDF export
- Documentation published to Read The Docs
- Interactive OpenAPI specification with Swagger
- Python package published to PyPI
- Docker images published to Docker.io and GitHub Container Registry with artifact attestations
- One-click development environments with Dev Containers and GitHub Codespaces
- Settings for use with VSCode
- Settings and custom instructions for use with GitHub Copilot
Application Features
Beyond development tooling, projects generated with this template include the code, documentation, and configuration of a fully functioning demo application and service. This reference implementation serves as a starting point for your own business logic with modern patterns and practices already in place:
- Service architecture suitable for use as shared library
- Validation with pydantic
- Command-line interface (CLI) with Typer
- Versioned Web API with FastAPI
- Interactive Jupyter notebook and reactive Marimo notebook
- Simple Web UI with Streamlit
- Configuration to run the CLI and API in a Docker container including setup for Docker Compose
- Documentation including badges, setup instructions, contribution guide and security policy
Explore here for what's generated out of the box.
Generate a new project
To generate, build and release a fully functioning project in a few minutes, follow these 5 steps:
Step 1: Execute the following command to install or update tooling.
# Install Homebrew, uv package manager, copier and further dev tools
curl -LsSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/helmut-hoffer-von-ankershoffen/oe-python-template/HEAD/install.sh | sh
Step 2: Create a repository on GitHub, clone to your local machine, and change into it's directory.
Step 3: Execute the following command to generate a new project based on this template.
# Ensure to stand in your freshly created git repository before executing this command
copier copy --trust gh:helmut-hoffer-von-ankershoffen/oe-python-template .
Step 4: Execute the following commands to push your initial commit to GitHub.
git add .
git commit -m "chore: Initial commit"
git push
Check the Actions tab of your GitHub repository: The CI/CD workflow of your project is already running!
The workflow will fail at the SonarQube step, as this external service is not yet configured for our new repository. We will configure SonarQube and other services in the next step!
Notes:
- Check out this manual on how to set up signed commits
Step 5: Follow the instructions to wire up external services such as CloudCov, SonarQube Cloud, Read The Docs, Docker.io, and Streamlit Community Cloud.
Step 6: Release the first version of your project
make bump
Notes:
- You can remove the above sections - from "Scaffolding" to this notes - post having successfully generated your project.
- The following sections refer to the dummy application and service generated into the
tests
andsrc
folder by this template. Use the documentation and code as inspiration, adapt to your business logic, or remove and start documenting and coding from scratch.
Overview
Adding Brave Search Python Client to your project as a dependency is easy. See below for usage examples.
uv add brave-search-python-client # add dependency to your project
If you don't have uv installed follow these instructions. If you still prefer pip over the modern and fast package manager uv, you can install the library like this:
pip install brave-search-python-client # add dependency to your project
Executing the command line interface (CLI) in an isolated Python environment is just as easy:
uvx brave-search-python-client hello-world # prints "Hello, world! [..]"
uvx brave-search-python-client serve # serves web API
uvx brave-search-python-client serve --port=4711 # serves web API on port 4711
Notes:
- The API is versioned, mounted at
/api/v1
resp./api/v2
- While serving the web API go to http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/v1/hello-world to see the respons of the
hello-world
operation. - Interactive documentation is provided at http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/docs
The CLI provides extensive help:
uvx brave-search-python-client --help # all CLI commands
uvx brave-search-python-client hello-world --help # help for specific command
uvx brave-search-python-client echo --help
uvx brave-search-python-client openapi --help
uvx brave-search-python-client serve --help
Operational Excellence
This project is designed with operational excellence in mind, using modern Python tooling and practices. It includes:
- Various examples demonstrating usage: a. Simple Python script b. Streamlit web application deployed on Streamlit Community Cloud c. Jupyter and Marimo notebook
- Complete reference documentation on Read the Docs
- Transparent test coverage including unit and E2E tests (reported on Codecov)
- Matrix tested with multiple python versions to ensure compatibility (powered by Nox)
- Compliant with modern linting and formatting standards (powered by Ruff)
- Up-to-date dependencies (monitored by Renovate and Dependabot)
- A-grade code quality in security, maintainability, and reliability with low technical debt and codesmell (verified by SonarQube)
- Additional code security checks using CodeQL
- Security Policy
- License compliant with the Open Source Initiative (OSI)
- 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)
Usage Examples
The following examples run from source - clone this repository using
git clone git@github.com:helmut-hoffer-von-ankershoffen/brave-search-python-client.git
.
Minimal Python Script:
"""Example script demonstrating the usage of the service provided by Brave Search Python Client."""
from dotenv import load_dotenv
from rich.console import Console
from brave_search_python_client import Service
console = Console()
load_dotenv()
message = Service.get_hello_world()
console.print(f"[blue]{message}[/blue]")
Show script code - Read the reference documentation
Streamlit App
Serve the functionality provided by Brave Search Python Client in the web by easily integrating the service into a Streamlit application.
... or serve the app locally
uv sync --all-extras # Install streamlit dependency part of the examples extra, see pyproject.toml
uv run streamlit run examples/streamlit.py # Serve on localhost:8501, opens browser
Notebooks
Jupyter
... or run within VSCode
uv sync --all-extras # Install dependencies required for examples such as Juypyter kernel, see pyproject.toml
Install the Jupyter extension for VSCode
Click on examples/notebook.ipynb
in VSCode and run it.
Marimo
Execute the notebook as a WASM based web app
uv sync --all-extras # Install ipykernel dependency part of the examples extra, see pyproject.toml
uv run marimo run examples/notebook.py --watch # Serve on localhost:2718, opens browser
or edit interactively in your browser
uv sync --all-extras # Install ipykernel dependency part of the examples extra, see pyproject.toml
uv run marimo edit examples/notebook.py --watch # Edit on localhost:2718, opens browser
... or edit interactively within VSCode
Install the Marimo extension for VSCode
Click on examples/notebook.py
in VSCode and click on the caret next to the Run
icon above the code (looks like a pencil) > "Start in marimo editor" (edit).
Command Line Interface (CLI)
Run with uvx
Show available commands:
uvx brave-search-python-client --help
Execute commands:
uvx brave-search-python-client hello-world
uvx brave-search-python-client echo --help
uvx brave-search-python-client echo "Lorem"
uvx brave-search-python-client echo "Lorem" --json
uvx brave-search-python-client openapi
uvx brave-search-python-client openapi --output-format=json
uvx brave-search-python-client serve
Environment
The service loads environment variables including support for .env files.
cp .env.example .env # copy example file
echo "THE_VAR=MY_VALUE" > .env # overwrite with your values
Now run the usage examples again.
Run with Docker
You can as well run the CLI within Docker.
docker run helmuthva/brave-search-python-client --help
docker run helmuthva/brave-search-python-client hello-world
docker run helmuthva/brave-search-python-client echo --help
docker run helmuthva/brave-search-python-client echo "Lorem"
docker run helmuthva/brave-search-python-client echo "Lorem" --json
docker run helmuthva/brave-search-python-client openapi
docker run helmuthva/brave-search-python-client openapi --output-format=json
docker run helmuthva/brave-search-python-client serve
Execute command:
docker run --env THE_VAR=MY_VALUE helmuthva/brave-search-python-client echo "Lorem Ipsum"
Or use docker compose
The .env is passed through from the host to the Docker container.
docker compose run brave-search-python-client --help
docker compose run brave-search-python-client hello-world
docker compose run brave-search-python-client echo --help
docker compose run brave-search-python-client echo "Lorem"
docker compose run brave-search-python-client echo "Lorem" --json
docker compose run brave-search-python-client openapi
docker compose run brave-search-python-client openapi --output-format=json
echo "Running Brave Search Python Client's API container as a daemon ..."
docker compose up -d
echo "Waiting for the API server to start ..."
sleep 5
echo "Checking health of v1 API ..."
curl http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/v1/healthz
echo ""
echo "Saying hello world with v1 API ..."
curl http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/v1/hello-world
echo ""
echo "Swagger docs of v1 API ..."
curl http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/v1/docs
echo ""
echo "Checking health of v2 API ..."
curl http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/v2/healthz
echo ""
echo "Saying hello world with v1 API ..."
curl http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/v2/hello-world
echo ""
echo "Swagger docs of v2 API ..."
curl http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/v2/docs
echo ""
echo "Shutting down the API container ..."
docker compose down
Extra: Lorem Ipsum
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Further Reading
- Check out the reference with detailed documentation of public classes and functions.
- Our release notes provide a complete log of recent improvements and changes.
- In case you want to help us improve 🦁 Brave Search Python Client: The contribution guidelines explain how to setup your development environment and create pull requests.
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