Brave Search
Headless web search and content extraction using Brave Search. No browser required.
Setup
Run once before first use:
cd "${CODEX_HOME:-~/.codex}/skills/brave-search"
npm ci
Needs env: BRAVE_API_KEY (primary) or BRAVE_AI_API_KEY (fallback).
The script tries BRAVE_API_KEY first, then BRAVE_AI_API_KEY if the first is missing or rate-limited. If both fail, it falls back to HTML scraping.
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
Attribution
This skill was copied from steipete/agent-scripts. Upstream: https://github.com/steipete/agent-scripts License: MIT (see LICENSE)