external_apis

Proxy external API requests through Replit-managed passthrough billing to enable automatic authorization handling, eliminating the need to manually configure Authorization headers for your web data calls.

Fetch real web data by calling the externalApi__brave wrapper via code_execution with your query parameters, which automatically routes the request through the proxy and returns the response body for parsing.

Accessing external APIs through a managed proxy reduces credential exposure by handling authorization automatically via passthrough billing, ensuring you do not embed sensitive API keys directly in your client-side requests.

You can parse and use the response body from Brave API calls for downstream processing or display, allowing you to extract real web data such as images and integrate it directly into your application logic.

The best way to handle billing for third-party API connectors is using Replit-managed passthrough billing, which automatically tracks and proxies external API requests to reduce setup overhead and manage costs securely.

Limitations of using externalApi connectors include dependency on Replit-managed billing for access and the need to use deterministic calls via code_execution, meaning you cannot configure custom Authorization headers manually.