videos-search

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USE FOR video search. Returns videos with title, URL, thumbnail, duration, view count, creator. Supports freshness filters, SafeSearch, pagination.

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🧩 One of 7 skills in the brave/brave-search-skills package — works on its own, and pairs well with its siblings.

This is the playbook your agent receives when the skill activates — you don't need to read it to use the skill, but it's here to audit before installing.

Videos 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

Endpoint

GET https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/videos/search
POST https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/videos/search

Authentication: X-Subscription-Token: <API_KEY> header

Note: Both GET and POST methods are supported. POST is useful for long queries.

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
`q`	string	Yes	-	Search query (1-400 chars, max 50 words)
`country`	string	No	`US`	Search country (2-letter country code or `ALL`)
`search_lang`	string	No	`en`	Language preference (2+ char language code)
`ui_lang`	string	No	`en-US`	UI language (e.g., "en-US")
`count`	int	No	`20`	Number of results (1-50)
`offset`	int	No	`0`	Page offset (0-9)
`safesearch`	string	No	`moderate`	Adult content filter (`off`/`moderate`/`strict`)
`freshness`	string	No	-	Time filter (`pd`/`pw`/`pm`/`py` or date range)
`spellcheck`	bool	No	`true`	Auto-correct query
`operators`	bool	No	`true`	Apply search operators
`include_fetch_metadata`	bool	No	`false`	Include `fetched_content_timestamp` in results

Freshness Values

Value	Description
`pd`	Past day (24 hours)
`pw`	Past week (7 days)
`pm`	Past month (31 days)
`py`	Past year (365 days)
`YYYY-MM-DDtoYYYY-MM-DD`	Custom date range

Response Format

{
  "type": "videos",
  "query": {
    "original": "python tutorial",
    "spellcheck_off": false
  },
  "extra": {
    "might_be_offensive": false
  },
  "results": [
    {
      "type": "video_result",
      "title": "Python Tutorial for Beginners",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfscVS0vtbw",
      "description": "Learn Python programming from scratch...",
      "age": "February 12, 2025",
      "page_age": "2025-02-12T00:00:00",
      "page_fetched": "2025-02-12T15:00:00Z",
      "thumbnail": {
        "src": "https://imgs.search.brave.com/...",
        "original": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rfscVS0vtbw/hqdefault.jpg"
      },
      "video": {
        "duration": "03:45:00",
        "views": 1523000,
        "creator": "freeCodeCamp",
        "publisher": "YouTube",
        "requires_subscription": false,
        "tags": ["python", "programming"],
        "author": {
          "name": "freeCodeCamp.org",
          "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@freecodecamp"
        }
      },
      "meta_url": {
        "scheme": "https",
        "netloc": "youtube.com",
        "hostname": "www.youtube.com",
        "favicon": "https://imgs.search.brave.com/...",
        "path": "\u203a watch"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Response Fields

Field	Type	Description
`type`	string	Always `"videos"`
`query.original`	string	The original search query
`query.altered`	string?	Spellcheck-corrected query (if changed)
`query.cleaned`	string?	Cleaned/normalized query
`query.spellcheck_off`	bool?	Whether spellcheck was disabled
`query.show_strict_warning`	bool?	True if strict safesearch blocked adult results
`query.search_operators`	object?	Applied search operators (`applied`, `cleaned_query`, `sites`)
`extra.might_be_offensive`	bool	Whether results may contain offensive content
`results[].type`	string	Always `"video_result"`
`results[].url`	string	Source URL of the video
`results[].title`	string	Video title
`results[].description`	string?	Video description
`results[].age`	string?	Human-readable age (e.g. "6 months ago") or absolute date (e.g. "February 12, 2025")
`results[].page_age`	string?	Page age from source (ISO datetime)
`results[].page_fetched`	string?	ISO datetime when page was last fetched (e.g. `2025-02-12T15:00:00Z`)
`results[].fetched_content_timestamp`	int?	Fetch timestamp (only with `include_fetch_metadata=true`)
`results[].video.duration`	string?	Time string (variable format)
`results[].video.views`	int?	View count as integer
`results[].video.creator`	string?	Channel/creator name
`results[].video.publisher`	string?	Platform (YouTube, Vimeo, etc.)
`results[].video.requires_subscription`	bool?	Whether video requires a subscription
`results[].video.tags`	list[str]?	Tags relevant to the video
`results[].video.author`	object?	Author profile
`results[].video.author.name`	string	Author name
`results[].video.author.url`	string	Author profile URL
`results[].video.author.long_name`	string?	Extended author name
`results[].video.author.img`	string?	Author profile image URL
`results[].thumbnail.src`	string	Served thumbnail URL
`results[].thumbnail.original`	string?	Original thumbnail URL
`results[].meta_url.scheme`	string?	URL protocol scheme
`results[].meta_url.netloc`	string?	Network location
`results[].meta_url.hostname`	string?	Lowercased domain name
`results[].meta_url.favicon`	string?	Favicon URL
`results[].meta_url.path`	string?	URL path

Search Operators

Use search operators to refine results:

site:youtube.com - Limit to specific site
"exact phrase" - Match exact phrase
-exclude - Exclude term

Set operators=false to disable operator parsing.

Use Cases

Video content research: Find tutorials, explainers, and reviews by topic. Use the video.duration, video.views, and video.creator metadata to filter and rank results programmatically. Prefer videos-search over web-search when you need a dedicated video index with richer metadata (duration, views, creator, tags) and up to 50 results per request.
Fresh video monitoring: Use freshness=pd or freshness=pw to track newly published video content on trending topics or specific subjects.
Platform-specific search: Use site:youtube.com or site:vimeo.com operators to target specific video platforms.
Video metadata extraction: Get view counts, durations, creator info, and tags for analytics, content curation, or recommendation systems.

Notes

Pagination: Use offset (0-9) with count for more results
Max results: Up to 50 results per request

Copy & paste — that's it

npx skills add brave/brave-search-skills --skill "videos-search" --full-depth

Run this in your project — your agent picks the skill up automatically.

Quick Start (cURL)

Basic Search

curl -s "https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/videos/search?q=python+tutorial" \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -H "X-Subscription-Token: ${BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY}"

With Parameters

curl -s "https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/videos/search" \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -H "X-Subscription-Token: ${BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY}" \
  -G \
  --data-urlencode "q=machine learning explained" \
  --data-urlencode "country=US" \
  --data-urlencode "search_lang=en" \
  --data-urlencode "count=20" \
  --data-urlencode "freshness=pm"