Brave News Scraper

Searches Brave News and extracts rich, source-backed listing data including article URLs, publishers, snippets, images, publication times, displayed flags, and search context.

What this Actor collects

Each dataset item represents one Brave News article card, with its destination URL, publisher, snippet, image, publication time, displayed flags, and search context.

• Uses the input limits and filters below to control the crawl.
• Stores source-backed fields defined by the 51-field dataset schema.
• Omits optional fields when the source does not expose a value instead of writing nulls or fabricated placeholders.

Use cases

• News monitoring
• Publisher and topic research
• Article-feed enrichment

Input

Provide input in JSON. Fields marked required must be supplied; source-specific alternatives and constraints are described in the field text.

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
query	string	Yes	—	Keywords to search in Brave News.
maxItems	integer	No	50	Maximum articles to save from Brave's current result page.
country	string	No	"us"	Two-letter Brave country code.
language	string	No	"en"	Brave search language code.
safeSearch	string	No	"moderate"	Safe Search value selected through Brave's current News filter control.
maxRequestRetries	integer	No	3	Retries temporary rate limits and server errors with bounded backoff.
navigationTimeoutSecs	integer	No	60	Maximum seconds to wait for navigation and result rendering.
headless	boolean	No	true	Disable only for local visual debugging.
proxyConfiguration	object	No	—	Optional Apify or custom proxy settings.

Example input

{
  "query": "technology",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "country": "us",
  "language": "en",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  },
  "safeSearch": "moderate",
  "maxRequestRetries": 3,
  "navigationTimeoutSecs": 60,
  "headless": true
}

Output

The default dataset contains one item per news article result. The following are the most useful fields; availability varies with the result card.

Field	Type	Description
position	integer	Position
title	string	Title
link	string	Link
source	string	Source
publishedAt	string	Published At
thumbnail	string	Thumbnail
snippet	string	Snippet
isBreaking	boolean	Breaking
isSponsored	boolean	Sponsored
type	string	Record Type
description	string	Description
url	string	URL
query	string	Query
searchQuery	string	Search Query
scrapedAt	string	Scraped At
resultType	string	Result Type

Example dataset item

This compact example is taken from local Actor storage. Long text and nested collections are shortened for documentation only.

{
  "position": 1,
  "title": "Technology News -- ScienceDaily",
  "link": "https://sciencedaily.com/news/matter_energy/technology",
  "source": "ScienceDaily",
  "publishedAt": "2026-07-09T15:52:57.186Z",
  "thumbnail": "https://imgs.search.brave.com/dYZ2vdocxOWr1DxdjtH87B18OYgAQUSExFi6GS2G58s/rs:fit:200:200:1:0/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cu/c2NpZW5jZWRhaWx5/LmNvbS9pbWFnZXMv/c2NpZGFpbHktaWNv/bi5wbmc",
  "snippet": "Technology news. Read articles on new gadgets and prototypes for future technology from leading research institutes around the world.",
  "isBreaking": false,
  "isSponsored": false,
  "type": "news",
  "description": "Technology news. Read articles on new gadgets and prototypes for future technology from leading research institutes around the world.",
  "url": "https://sciencedaily.com/news/matter_energy/technology"
}

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