librarian-brave
A Brave Search backend for librarian's research loop: Brave's independent web index through its official API, as a second web source beside SearXNG.
Every query goes to Brave under your account. That is the reason this is a
separate, opt-in package, and why it does nothing until BRAVE_API_KEY is
set: without a key a search returns no results, says why, and sends nothing.
Install
Install into the same environment as librarian, then route web to it:
uv pip install librarian-brave
# librarian's .env
BRAVE_API_KEY=...
RESEARCH_SEARCH_ROUTES=web: searxng, brave; video: searxng; science: searxng
Settings
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
BRAVE_API_KEY |
empty | Your Brave Search API key; without it nothing is sent |
BRAVE_MONTHLY_QUOTA |
1000 | Requests a calendar month (UTC), counted locally; a search past it is refused before any request |
BRAVE_MIN_INTERVAL_SECONDS |
1.1 | Seconds between requests (the free plan allows 1 a second) |
The month's count lives in brave-v1/usage.json under librarian's search
cache folder. Brave's own rate-limit headers are read too: when a capped
monthly window has nothing left, requests stop until the reset it names. A
window with a limit of 0 has no cap (a usage-billed plan's month reads
x-ratelimit-limit: 50, 0), so BRAVE_MONTHLY_QUOTA is then the only
monthly bound: set it to what you're willing to spend. A cached
reply costs nothing and isn't counted. Refusals (no key, quota, 401/403,
429) come back to librarian as degraded, never as an error that fails the
research task.
It answers web only. Brave's documentation, read on September 30, 2026,
didn't confirm a video endpoint, so none is called.
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