Brave Engines¶
Brave supports the categories listed in brave_category
(General,
news, videos, images). The support of paging
and time range
is limited (see remarks).
Configured brave
engines:
- name: brave
engine: brave
...
brave_category: search
time_range_support: true
paging: true
- name: brave.images
engine: brave
...
brave_category: images
- name: brave.videos
engine: brave
...
brave_category: videos
- name: brave.news
engine: brave
...
brave_category: news
- name: brave.goggles
brave_category: goggles
time_range_support: true
paging: true
...
brave_category: goggles
Brave regions¶
Brave uses two-digit tags for the regions like ca
while SearXNG deals with
locales. To get a mapping, all officiat de-facto languages of the Brave
region are mapped to regions in SearXNG (see babel
):
"regions": {
..
"en-CA": "ca",
"fr-CA": "ca",
..
}
Note
The language (aka region) support of Brave’s index is limited to very basic languages. The search results for languages like Chinese or Arabic are of low quality.
Brave Goggles¶
Goggles allow you to choose, alter, or extend the ranking of Brave Search results (Goggles Whitepaper). Goggles are openly developed by the community of Brave Search users.
Select from the list of Goggles people have published, or create your own (Goggles Quickstart).
Brave languages¶
Brave’s language support is limited to the UI (menus, area local notations, etc). Brave’s index only seems to support a locale, but it does not seem to support any languages in its index. The choice of available languages is very small (and its not clear to me where the difference in UI is when switching from en-us to en-ca or en-gb).
In the EngineTraits object
the
UI languages are stored in a custom field named ui_lang
:
"custom": {
"ui_lang": {
"ca": "ca",
"de-DE": "de-de",
"en-CA": "en-ca",
"en-GB": "en-gb",
"en-US": "en-us",
"es": "es",
"fr-CA": "fr-ca",
"fr-FR": "fr-fr",
"ja-JP": "ja-jp",
"pt-BR": "pt-br",
"sq-AL": "sq-al"
}
},
Implementations¶
- searx.engines.brave.Goggles¶
Brave supports common web-search, videos, images, news, and goggles search.
search
: Common WEB searchvideos
: search for videosimages
: search for imagesnews
: search for newsgoggles
: Common WEB search with custom rules
- searx.engines.brave.fetch_traits(engine_traits: EngineTraits)[source]¶
- searx.engines.brave.brave_spellcheck = False¶
Brave supports some kind of spell checking. When activated, Brave tries to fix typos, e.g. it searches for
food
when the user queries forfooh
. In the UI of Brave the user gets warned about this, since we can not warn the user in SearXNG, the spellchecking is disabled by default.
- searx.engines.brave.max_page = 10¶
Tested 9 pages maximum (
&offset=8
), to be save max is set to 10. Trying to do more won’t return any result and you will most likely be flagged as a bot.
- searx.engines.brave.paging = False¶
Brave only supports paging in
brave_category
search
(UI category All) and in the goggles category.
- searx.engines.brave.time_range_support = False¶
Brave only supports time-range in
brave_category
search
(UI category All) and in the goggles category.