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Brave Images Scraper

search.brave.com

Brave's image search shows only part of its results in the grid, and none of the source pages, so scraping what the page displays gets you thumbnails without the pages they come from. The page does ship the whole result set, about 200 images, in its data, and a dedicated plugin endpoint takes a keyword and reads every result from there: the original image URL on the publisher's site (not a Brave thumbnail), the source domain and page, a title and site name, a thumbnail and the pixel dimensions - in one call billed as one request, with no Brave API key. Brave picks the result region from the searcher's location, so the page is rendered in a real browser through an exit in the country you pick, and the results are the ones a searcher there sees. The response mirrors our Google Images plugin, so one pipeline handles every engine.

What you can extract

• The original image URL on the publisher's site, for every result
• The source domain and the source page URL that displays the image, which the Brave grid does not show
• The result title, plus the site name
• A fast Brave-hosted thumbnail URL
• Image width and height in pixels
• The whole result set, about 200 images, in one call billed as one request
• Region-specific results: proxy_country sets Brave's region through the exit IP

Dedicated endpoints

How to scrape it

curl -X POST \
  -H "X-ScrapeUnblocker-Key: $SU_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.scrapeunblocker.com/images/brave-search?q=eiffel%20tower&proxy_country=US"

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.scrapeunblocker.com/images/brave-search",
    headers={"X-ScrapeUnblocker-Key": SU_API_KEY},
    params={"q": "eiffel tower", "proxy_country": "US"},
)
print(resp.text)

import { ScrapeUnblockerClient } from 'scrapeunblocker';

const su = new ScrapeUnblockerClient({ apiKey: process.env.SU_API_KEY });

const results = await su.braveImages('eiffel tower', {
  proxyCountry: 'US',
});
console.log(results);

Requests are POST and take their parameters in the query string. Browser rendering always happens - there is no flag to enable.

Example response

{
  "engine": "brave",
  "query": "eiffel tower",
  "gl": "us",
  "proxyCountry": "US",
  "resultsCollected": 200,
  "pagesFetched": 1,
  "hasMore": false,
  "results": [
    {
      "position": 1,
      "imageUrl": "https://cms.tootbus.com/sites/default/files/styles/ratp_xs_webp/public/2021-02/shutterstock_183894290_jpg.jpg.webp?itok=MzNNRyGW",
      "sourceDomain": "tootbus.com",
      "sourcePageUrl": "https://www.tootbus.com/en/paris/inspiration/10-fascinating-facts-about-eiffel-tower-you-should-know",
      "title": "10 Fascinating Facts about the Eiffel Tower you should know",
      "sourceName": "tootbus.com",
      "thumbnailUrl": "https://imgs.search.brave.com/HNsoICjicELfOImcnq05q6XwB3w28exDdTTwO5vxIsg/rs:fit:500:0:1:0/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly9jbXMu...",
      "width": 348,
      "height": 205,
      "fileSize": null
    },
    {
      "position": 2,
      "imageUrl": "https://thephotoargus.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/eiffeltower05.jpg",
      "sourceDomain": "thephotoargus.com",
      "sourcePageUrl": "https://thephotoargus.com/eiffel-tower-pictures/",
      "title": "Tony Gravé - eiffel tower silhouette",
      "sourceName": "thephotoargus.com",
      "thumbnailUrl": "https://imgs.search.brave.com/XBlQ6_wPRlBfPsCZPnDBjrVcvjR0rkc5Z4alqbmcvgc/rs:fit:500:0:1:0/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVw...",
      "width": 683,
      "height": 1024,
      "fileSize": null
    }
  ]
}

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