Brave Search
SkillWeb & browsingWeb search and content extraction via Brave Search API. Use for searching documentation, facts, or any web content. Lightweight, no browser required.
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
No other account needed.
Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.
Then ask your AI: use the Brave Search skill
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by craftos-dev/craftbot in skills/brave-search/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Headless web search and content extraction using Brave Search. No browser required.
Setup
Run once before first use:
cd ~/Projects/agent-scripts/skills/brave-search
npm ci
Needs env: BRAVE_API_KEY.
Search
./search.js "query" # Basic search (5 results)
./search.js "query" -n 10 # More results
./search.js "query" --content # Include page content as markdown
./search.js "query" -n 3 --content # Combined
Extract Page Content
./content.js https://example.com/article
Fetches a URL and extracts readable content as markdown.
Output Format
--- Result 1 ---
Title: Page Title
Link: https://example.com/page
Snippet: Description from search results
Content: (if --content flag used)
Markdown content extracted from the page...
--- Result 2 ---
...
When to Use
- Searching for documentation or API references
- Looking up facts or current information
- Fetching content from specific URLs
- Any task requiring web search without interactive browsing
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 382
- Forks
- 45
- Last commit
- Sep 2026
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Advanced
- Catalog kind
- skill
- Gateway key
brave-search- Source
- github.com/craftos-dev/craftbot