Are only YouTube videos returned?

Mostly. In our October 2026 test, 96% of Brave's video results were on YouTube and the rest on sites such as PBS and BBC. source and domain tell you where each one lives.

Is this Brave's official Brave Search API?

No. SerpKite reads Brave Search's public, logged-out results page and returns it in SerpKite's own JSON shape. You don't need a Brave account or a Brave API key, and you pay SerpKite credits, not Brave's per-query price.

How much does a Brave search cost?

The same as a Google search: 1 credit per page, from $0.60 per 1,000 on the largest pack. Failed, blocked and empty requests are free, and credits never expire.

Can I get Google and Brave results in one request?

Yes. engine: "consensus" queries several independent indexes (Brave among them) in parallel and merges the results, with a sources list on each row. You pay for each provider that answered.

POST /v1/videos · engine=brave

Brave Video Search API

Video results from Brave Search, YouTube and beyond, with channel, duration, typed publish date and thumbnail for each video.

Updated Oct 25, 2026

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1 credit per page of results 2,500 free credits, no card Failed calls are free

Overview

What the Brave Video Search API does

Brave Search runs its own web index, built by its own crawler, so its results are independent of both Google and Bing. Use it when you want a second, independent view of the web next to Google, or a non-Google source for an AI agent.

/v1/videos with engine: "brave" returns Brave's video results: title, link, domain, source, channel, duration, date and published_at, a snippet and an image_url thumbnail. A page often holds 50 videos.

What you get

results[] array: Videos: position, title, link, domain, source (e.g. YouTube), channel, duration, date / published_at, snippet and image_url.
meta object: request_id, credits_used, cached, latency_ms, parse_quality, engine (the provider that answered) and route (each provider attempt with outcome and ms).

Request

POST /v1/videos

cURL

Python

TypeScript

fetch

PHP

curl https://api.serpkite.com/v1/videos \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SERPKITE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"q":"espresso tutorial","engine":"brave"}'

Response (live response, trimmed)

200 OK · Brave videos · live response, trimmed

{
  "request": {
    "country": "us",
    "endpoint": "videos",
    "engine": "brave",
    "language": "en",
    "num": 10,
    "page": 1,
    "q": "espresso tutorial"
  },
  "results": [
    {
      "channel": "Lance Hedrick",
      "date": "August 12, 2026",
      "domain": "youtube.com",
      "duration": "27:12",
      "image_url": "https://imgs.search.brave.com/4GC_R2F1G8XVD-NZjKQ8jTWIvScOCpo_DRAI7X9Pg6M/rs:fit:200:200:1:0/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly9pLnl0/aW1nLmNvbS92aS9u/RXQ4cTlRV2RzRS9t/YXhyZXNkZWZhdWx0/LmpwZw",
      "link": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEt8q9QWdsE",
      "position": 1,
      "published_at": "2026-08-12",
      "snippet": "Head to https://squarespace.com/lancehedrick to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code LANCEHEDRICKThis is the guide for dummies ...",
      "source": "YouTube",
      "title": "Espresso in Under 30 Min: Everything You Need to Know - YouTube"
    },
    {
      "channel": "Lance Hedrick",
      "date": "October 1, 2025",
      "domain": "youtube.com",
      "duration": "37:36",
      "image_url": "https://imgs.search.brave.com/wwOFB0tquwNC7fvR0OCfxpBLDQ9A1ga072tVDZS8kp0/rs:fit:200:200:1:0/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly9pLnl0/aW1nLmNvbS92aS9J/NnRpNk5NQ3FzYy9o/cWRlZmF1bHQuanBn",
      "link": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6ti6NMCqsc&vl=en",
      "position": 2,
      "published_at": "2025-10-01",
      "snippet": "Learn how to dial in espresso like a pro. This video condenses the official SCA Barista Skills espresso curriculum into one clear, practical guide. Whether y...",
      "source": "YouTube",
      "title": "The Best Espresso Tutorial (Part 2) - YouTube"
    }
  ],
  "meta": {
    "request_id": "req_01J8ZK4M6Q2V7",
    "credits_used": 1,
    "cached": false,
    "engine": "brave",
    "route": [
      {
        "provider": "brave",
        "outcome": "ok",
        "ms": 1291
      }
    ],
    "latency_ms": 1330,
    "parse_quality": "ok"
  }
}

Every response also carries X-Credits-Used, X-Credits-Remaining, X-Cache and X-Tokens-Estimate headers. Run this query in the playground

One key, many engines

Brave through SerpKite

Same key, same envelope and the same SDK call as Google: only engine changes.
meta.engine names the provider that answered and meta.route lists every attempt. A result is never relabelled.
engine: "auto" keeps Google first and falls back to Brave and the other engines only when Google fails. How fallback works
Failed, blocked and empty attempts are free; you pay only for the provider that answered.

Everything Brave serves on SerpKite

Brave Search API POST /v1/search · engine=brave
Brave News API POST /v1/news · engine=brave
Brave Image Search API POST /v1/images · engine=brave
Brave Video Search API POST /v1/videos · engine=brave

See all engines on the multi-engine search page or in the providers reference.

engine=auto answered by Brave (illustrative)

meta.route

{
  "request": {
    "endpoint": "videos",
    "engine": "auto",
    "q": "espresso tutorial"
  },
  "meta": {
    "engine": "brave",
    "route": [
      {
        "provider": "google",
        "outcome": "blocked",
        "ms": 2140
      },
      {
        "provider": "brave",
        "outcome": "ok",
        "ms": 640
      }
    ]
  }
}

Measured Oct 25, 2026

How Brave behaves on this endpoint

Three queries ("espresso tutorial", "rust async explained", "how to tie a bowline") sent to /v1/videos with engine=brave through the production API, and four more to count video hosts.

Videos per page: 43 to 50
Median response time: 1.1 s
Fields on every video: title, link, source, date, published_at, snippet and the image_url thumbnail
Videos with channel and duration: 97%
Where the videos are hosted: 181 of 188 (96%) on YouTube; the rest on PBS, BBC, Facebook and a blog

Filters and limits

Pages hold up to 50 videos and positions continue across pages: page: 2 starts at position 51.
time works for day, week, month and year. time: "hour" is a 400 invalid_request and isn't charged.
safe: true uses Brave's strict SafeSearch; otherwise Brave's moderate setting applies.
Brave lists videos it found across the web, so a result links to the host page (usually youtube.com), not to a Brave player.

Reference

Parameters

The parameters /v1/videos accepts, in the JSON body or the query string.

Brave Video Search API parameters
Name	Type	Default	Description
`q` required	string	–	The search query. Required. Up to 2,048 characters.
`engine`	string \| string[]	google	"brave" for this page. "auto" tries Google first and falls back to other engines; a list such as ["google", "brave"] limits the route to those engines.
`country`	string	us	Country to search from, as a two-letter ISO code (us, gb, de, in…). Defaults to the country a location ends in.
`language`	string	en	Interface language, as a language code with an optional region (en, de, pt-BR, zh-TW…).
`page`	integer	1	Results page, 1–10. Each page is billed separately.
`format`	string	json	Response format. markdown is LLM-ready prose; compact is JSON with only the fields agents need. Values: json, compact, markdown.
`fields`	string	–	Comma-separated projection, e.g. results.title,results.link,knowledge_graph. Cuts tokens.
`max_age`	integer	–	Accept a cached result up to this many seconds old. Cache hits cost 50% of the credits.

Full reference, error codes and headers are in the /v1/videos reference. Queue up to 100 requests at half price with POST /v1/batches.

Use cases

What people build with the Brave Video Search API

A second index for agents

Ground answers in two independent indexes: Google by default, Brave with one parameter.

Fallback when Google is blocked

engine=auto tries Google first and answers from Brave when Google is unavailable.

Index comparison

Run the same query on Google and Brave and compare which domains each index ranks.

Pricing