Scrape search results on brave.com

The call that returns search results from brave.com today, with the parameters, patterns and failure modes read off the request log since 14 Aug 2026. Last tested 6 Sep 2026.

99.6% success · Aug 2026No browser neededStandard price · 1 credit

About brave.com

brave.com describes itself as “The Brave browser is a fast, private and secure web browser for PC, Mac and mobile. Download now to enjoy a faster ad-free browsing experience that saves data and battery life by blocking tracking software”.

Its home page declares 12 languages: en, ja, zh, ko, de, fr, es, da, it, pt-br, sv, tl.

Its sitemaps list 3,061 URLs across 19 files. 60 of the 2,221 dated entries changed in the last 30 days, the newest on 4 Sep 2026.

Its robots.txt names 1 sitemap.

Measured on Crawlbase

Success rate over every request from every account in August 2026: 99.6%. Patterns, countries and failures come from the request log since 14 Aug 2026; 0.0% of successful calls used the JavaScript token and the median answer took 2.4s.

Among the 11 tech and developer sites in the Cookbook, brave.com ranks 5 of 11 by success rate; the category median is 97.8%. Its median answer of 2.4s is slower than the category median of 1.9s. 8 of the 11 accept the plain token, this one among them.

The call

Search result pages are the shape the accounts fetch most here, with the country and token that succeed most often. Replace the placeholder query with your own.

Run in Playground
curl "https://api.crawlbase.com/?token=YOUR_TOKEN&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbrave.com%2Ffr%2Fsearch%2Fapi%2Fglossary%2F"

Parameters that matter

ParameterSet it toWhy
countryleave unsetMost successful calls set no country (100%) and succeed at 100%.
javascriptleave unsetPlain-token calls succeed at 100% and make up 100% of the traffic. A browser costs more and, on this site, buys nothing.

URL patterns accounts fetch

PatternShare of successesJavaScript tokenCountryQuery parameters
/search100%0.0%noneq, source

Fields you get

Structured data Crawlbase found on brave.com, by page type. These are the schema.org types in the page, the fields your parser can read straight from the JSON-LD block:

  • Home: WebSite, WebPage
  • Article: Article

What breaks, and the fix

Of the failures since 14 Aug 2026, the site answered:

0: 44.4% of failures A status of 0 is a request that never got an answer inside the timeout. Retry once with the JavaScript token if the pattern needs a browser.
403: 27.8% of failures A 403 is the site refusing the exit. Set the country the successful calls use and retry once; a second 403 means the URL itself is protected.
429: 11.1% of failures A 429 is a rate limit on the site side. Space the calls or push them to the Crawler, which paces them.
594, 591: 16.7% of failures together A 5xx is the site failing, not the fetch. Retry after a minute.

Run it on a schedule

Search is the expensive side of a site. Keep the query list short, run it on a cadence through the Crawler with a callback, and fetch afterwards only the result pages you need. The median answer on this site is 2.4s.

Questions

Do I need a browser to scrape brave.com?

No. 100% of plain-token calls succeed and accounts send 100% of their traffic without a browser.

How much does a brave.com page cost on Crawlbase?

1 credit without a browser. brave.com is in the standard tier.

Which country should I set for brave.com?

None is needed: most successful calls leave it unset.

Other pages on brave.com

Pages brave.com lists in its own sitemaps, fetched by Crawlbase on 6 Sep 2026 and verified in 2 consecutive runs. Each row is the cheapest call that returned the page with its content.

PageExampleTokenCountryMedian
Home
/
Structured data: WebSite, WebPage
brave.com/Plainnone3.3s
Search
/fr/search/api
brave.com/fr/search/api/glossary/Plainnone1.5s
Listing
/pt-br/{slug}/category
brave.com/pt-br/web3/category/Plainnone2.2s
Article
/ja/blog/{slug}
Structured data: Article
brave.com/ja/blog/nebula/Plainnone2.5s
Other
/{slug}/{slug}
nonePlainnone2.1s
Site names identify the pages a recipe fetches. Crawlbase is not affiliated with any site listed. Use recipes within the acceptable use policy.Measured numbers from August 2026, refreshed monthly