By name: brave-rotator
description: >
Brave Search API with automatic key rotation across multiple API keys to maximize free tier limits
(2000 req/month per key). Use when performing web, news, or image searches via Brave Search API,
especially when multiple API keys are available and you want to avoid rate limits.
Triggers on web search requests, news lookups, image searches, any task requiring
Brave Search API calls with key rotation or fallback.
Brave Rotator
Multi-key Brave Search with automatic round-robin rotation and rate-limit fallback.
Setup
Set env var with comma-separated keys:
export BRAVE_API_KEYS=key1,key2,key3
Optionally set state file path (default: ~/.brave_key_state.json):
export BRAVE_KEY_STATE_FILE=/path/to/state.json
Script: scripts/brave_search.py
Run directly or import as module.
CLI usage
python3 brave_search.py "your query" [--count 5] [--type web|news|image] [--country us] [--lang en] [--json]
Import usage
import sys, os
sys.path.insert(0, "path/to/skill/scripts")
from brave_search import search, format_results
data, used_key, key_idx = search("your query", count=5, search_type="web")
results = format_results(data, "web")
# results = [{"title": ..., "url": ..., "snippet": ...}, ...]
Rotation Logic
Maintains state in
~/.brave_key_state.jsonRound-robin across all keys
On HTTP 429/403: blocks key for 60s, retries with next key
All keys exhausted: uses least recently blocked key
Key State Inspection
cat ~/.brave_key_state.json
Shows per-key request count, last success, and blocked_until timestamps.
Search Types
| Type | Endpoint | Result fields |
|-------|-----------------------|--------------------------------------|
| web | /web/search | title, url, snippet |
| news | /news/search | title, url, snippet, age |
| image | /images/search | title, url, thumbnail |
Notes
Free plan: 2000 req/month/key, 1 req/sec
With N keys: effectively N×2000 req/month
See
references/brave-api.mdfor full API params and plan details