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# BraveSearch Loader

BraveSearch is a privacy-focused search engine that provides a powerful API for web search. This module enables loading and processing search results from BraveSearch into documents.

This module provides a sophisticated search document loader that can:

* Execute web searches using BraveSearch API
* Convert search results into structured documents
* Extract snippets and metadata from results
* Process results with text splitters
* Customize metadata extraction

## Inputs

### Required Parameters

* **Query**: The search query to execute
* **Connect Credential**: BraveSearch API credentials

### Optional Parameters

* **Text Splitter**: A text splitter to process the extracted content
* **Additional Metadata**: JSON object with additional metadata
* **Omit Metadata Keys**: Comma-separated list of metadata keys to omit

## Outputs

* **Document**: Array of document objects containing metadata and pageContent
* **Text**: Concatenated string from pageContent of documents

## Features

* Privacy-focused web search
* Structured result processing
* Automatic metadata extraction
* Result content splitting
* Customizable metadata handling
* Error handling for API responses

## Document Structure

Each search result is converted into a document with:

* **pageContent**: The snippet/content from the search result
* **metadata**:
  * title: The title of the webpage
  * link: The URL of the webpage
  * Additional custom metadata as specified

## Notes

* Requires valid BraveSearch API key
* Results include webpage snippets and metadata
* Can be combined with text splitters for content processing
* Supports custom metadata addition and omission
* Handles API rate limits and errors
* Preserves privacy-focused search features