This is an n8n community node. It lets you use the Brave Search API in your n8n workflows.
Power your search and AI apps with the fastest growing independent search engine since Bing. Access an index of billions of pages with a single call. Get started for free at https://brave.com/search/api/.
n8n is a fair-code licensed workflow automation platform.
Follow the installation guide in the n8n community nodes documentation.
This node presently supports search operations for general web results, as well as images, news, and videos.
An API key is required in order to issue calls to the Brave Search API. Get started for FREE with 1 query/second, and 2,000 queries/month. Sign up to retrieve your API key at https://brave.com/search/api/.
Tested locally against n8n v1.93.0.
You should familarize yourself with the various response objects, to understand what data is provided by the API, and how to access individual insights. Response object formats are available in the Brave Search API documentation. For example, to understand how a standard Web Search response looks, you can visit https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/documentation/web-search/responses.
To streamline and accelerate the development process, follow these steps:
- Install n8n globally (
pnpm add -g n8n). - Set the
N8N_CUSTOM_EXTENSIONSenvironment variable to the/distdirectory of this repository. - Enable hot reloading by setting the
N8N_DEV_RELOADenvironment variable totrue. - Run
pnpm run devto watch for changes and automatically rebuild the node as you develop. - Start n8n with
n8n startto launch the editor UI. - Open the n8n editor UI in your browser.
You should now be able to search for and use the Brave Search node in your n8n workflows.
Note: When launching n8n locally for the first time, you will be prompted to create a user account. If you forget your credentials, you can reset n8n to its initial state by running
n8n user-management:reset.
- 1.0.0 — Initial release of the Brave Search API n8n node