# Brave Search Local Descriptions

> Brave Search Local Descriptions is a paid API for AI agents from search.agent.s.brave.app, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-11).

Returns AI-generated descriptions of places identified by location IDs from a previous Brave web or place search.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://search.agent.s.brave.app/res/v1/local/descriptions?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-11
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/brave-search-local-descriptions-3e1f0b31
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_tFW0HamiOCWLLDe0-h_GF

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability brave-search-local-descriptions-3e1f0b31
```

Example prompt: I just searched for coffee shops near downtown Seattle — can you pull up the AI-generated descriptions for those locations so I know what each place is like before I recommend one?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you already have location IDs from a Brave web or place search and need human-readable, AI-generated descriptions of those places before recommending or presenting them. It is the right choice when you want to add context or narrative to raw place results without doing a full web scrape. Prefer it over the place details endpoint when you need descriptive text rather than structured data like hours or phone numbers.

## Known failure modes

- Expired location IDs (older than ~8 hours) return no results or an error — IDs must be fresh from a recent search
- Invalid or malformed IDs return empty results
- Requesting more than 20 IDs at once is rejected
- IDs from non-Brave sources are not recognized
- Network or service errors return HTTP error codes

## How this service works

AI-generated descriptions of places found by web or place search. Use it to learn what a place is before recommending it. Pass the location ids, repeated as ids=a&ids=b. Ids expire after about 8 hours.

## Output

An array of objects, each containing the location ID, a type label, and an AI-generated text description of the place — suitable for presenting to a user or feeding into a recommendation.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "ids"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "ids": {
       "type": "array",
       "items": {
        "type": "string"
       },
       "maxItems": 20,
       "minItems": 1,
       "description": "Location ids from web or place search, valid for 8 hours. Repeat as ids=a&ids=b"
      }
     }
    }
   }
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "results": {
       "type": "array",
       "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
         "id": {
          "type": "string"
         },
         "type": {
          "type": "string"
         },
         "description": {
          "type": "string"
         }
        }
       }
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/brave-search-local-descriptions-3e1f0b31/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from search.agent.s.brave.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/search.agent.s.brave.app/llms.txt)