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Brave Local API

The Local API from Brave — 2 operation(s) for local.

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Operations 2

GET /local/pois Local POI search #

GET /local/descriptions Local descriptions #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Brave Search Images Local API
  description: The Brave Search API provides programmatic access to Brave's independent search index covering web, news, image, video, suggest, spellcheck, summarizer, and local POI endpoints. Requests authenticate via the X-Subscription-Token header issued through the Brave Search API dashboard.
  version: '1.0'
  contact:
    name: Brave Search API
    url: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/documentation
servers:
- url: https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1
  description: Production API
security:
- SubscriptionToken: []
tags:
- name: Local
paths:
  /local/pois:
    get:
      summary: Local POI search
      description: Retrieve local point-of-interest details by IDs (up to 20).
      operationId: localPois
      tags:
      - Local
      parameters:
      - name: ids
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
          maxItems: 20
        style: form
        explode: true
      - name: search_lang
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: ui_lang
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: POI details
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
  /local/descriptions:
    get:
      summary: Local descriptions
      description: AI-generated descriptions for local POIs by IDs.
      operationId: localDescriptions
      tags:
      - Local
      parameters:
      - name: ids
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
          maxItems: 20
        style: form
        explode: true
      - name: search_lang
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Descriptions
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
components:
  securitySchemes:
    SubscriptionToken:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: X-Subscription-Token