# Brave Search Place Search

> Brave Search Place Search 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).

Searches over 200 million places and points of interest by keyword and location, returning business listings with addresses, coordinates, ratings, and IDs.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://search.agent.s.brave.app/res/v1/local/place_search?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-place-search-55982c5e
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_dV5gmZ7Dd3VJicFVNEYrk

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-place-search-55982c5e
```

Example prompt: Find me the top 10 coffee shops in Seattle, WA, United States — I need their names, addresses, ratings, and coordinates.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to discover or list multiple businesses and points of interest in a geographic area by keyword or category. Prefer it over the place details endpoint when you need broad discovery rather than deep information on a single known place. It is ideal for generating candidate lists, map overlays, or presenting options to a user before drilling into details.

## Known failure modes

- Missing both 'q' and 'location'/'latitude'/'longitude' may return empty or generic results
- Invalid latitude/longitude values (outside -90 to 90 or -180 to 180) cause parameter errors
- Radius too large or too small may return irrelevant or no results
- Unsupported country codes may fall back to global results
- Temporary place IDs expire and cannot be reused across sessions
- Result count exceeding 100 is rejected

## How this service works

Place search over more than 200 million places. Returns businesses and points of interest with address, coordinates, rating, and a temporary id. Use it to find places in an area. Pass q and a location such as san francisco ca united states, or latitude and longitude.

## Output

Returns an array of place results, each containing a temporary ID, place name, type, URL, categories, coordinates (latitude/longitude pair), postal address (display string), and rating info (rating value, best rating, review count).

## 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": [],
     "properties": {
      "q": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "What to find. Leave out for general places in the area"
      },
      "count": {
       "type": "integer",
       "default": 20,
       "maximum": 100,
       "minimum": 1
      },
      "radius": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Meters around the coordinates to favor"
      },
      "country": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Country code such as US, or ALL"
      },
      "latitude": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "-90 to 90, instead of location"
      },
      "location": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Area such as san francisco ca united states"
      },
      "longitude": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "-180 to 180, instead of location"
      }
     }
    }
   }
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "type": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "results": {
       "type": "array",
       "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
         "id": {
          "type": "string"
         },
         "url": {
          "type": "string"
         },
         "type": {
          "type": "string"
         },
         "title": {
          "type": "string"
         },
         "rating": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
           "bestRating": {
            "type": "number"
           },
           "ratingValue": {
            "type": "number"
           },
           "reviewCount": {
            "type": "number"
           }
          }
         },
         "categories": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
           "type": "string"
          }
         },
         "coordinates": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
           "type": "number"
          }
         },
         "postal_address": {
          "type": "object",
         
… (truncated)
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/brave-search-place-search-55982c5e/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)