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news-search
Search for recent news articles and news metadata.
Developer Setup
Setup & Installation
bash
npx skills add https://github.com/brave/brave-search-skills --skill news-searchnpx skills add https://github.com/brave/brave-search-skills --skill news-searchOr paste this URL into your assistant to install:
Overview
What This Skill Does
Searches Brave's news index for articles, supporting publish time, freshness, and date-range filtering.
Application
When to use this Skill
- When you need the latest articles, press releases, or breaking news on a specific topic.
- When you want to filter search results by date range or freshness (e.g., last 24 hours, last week).
- When you need to display news headlines with source organization, publish age, and thumbnails.
- When you want to retrieve news articles from trusted or specific media domains using Goggles.
- When you need to separate current event coverage from evergreen web search documentation.
Documentation
Show Skills.md file
News Search
Requires API Key: Get one at https://api.search.brave.com
Plan: Included in the Search plan. See https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/subscriptions/subscribe
Quick Start (cURL)
Basic Search
curl -s "https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/news/search?q=space+exploration" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-H "X-Subscription-Token: ${BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY}"
Recent News (Past 24 Hours)
curl -s "https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/news/search" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-H "X-Subscription-Token: ${BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY}" \
-G \
--data-urlencode "q=cybersecurity" \
--data-urlencode "country=US" \
--data-urlencode "freshness=pd" \
--data-urlencode "count=20"
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