diff --git a/.mergify.yml b/.mergify.yml
index 8c2f886..05da0ed 100644
--- a/.mergify.yml
+++ b/.mergify.yml
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 pull_request_rules:
   - name: Automatic merge on approval
     conditions:
-      - "status-success=checks/approved"
       - "#approved-reviews-by>=2"
+      - check-success=build (stable)
+      - check-success=CodeFactor
+      - check-success=Rust project
     actions:
       queue:
         method: squash
diff --git a/.stylelintrc.json b/.stylelintrc.json
index 9019f4f..05ffdd4 100644
--- a/.stylelintrc.json
+++ b/.stylelintrc.json
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 {  
- "extends": "stylelint-config-standard",
+  "extends": "stylelint-config-standard",
   "rules": {
     "alpha-value-notation": "number",
     "selector-class-pattern": null
   },
-"overrides": [
+  "overrides": [
     {
       "files": ["*.js"],
       "customSyntax": "postcss-lit"
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 11b8343..1184f29 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2899,9 +2899,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "rustix"
-version = "0.38.15"
+version = "0.38.19"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "d2f9da0cbd88f9f09e7814e388301c8414c51c62aa6ce1e4b5c551d49d96e531"
+checksum = "745ecfa778e66b2b63c88a61cb36e0eea109e803b0b86bf9879fbc77c70e86ed"
 dependencies = [
  "bitflags 2.4.0",
  "errno",
@@ -4042,7 +4042,7 @@ checksum = "14247bb57be4f377dfb94c72830b8ce8fc6beac03cf4bf7b9732eadd414123fc"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "websurfx"
-version = "1.0.11"
+version = "1.2.1"
 dependencies = [
  "actix-cors",
  "actix-files",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 6c4b287..b8f6e5d 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "websurfx"
-version = "1.0.11"
+version = "1.2.1"
 edition = "2021"
 description = "An open-source alternative to Searx that provides clean, ad-free, and organic results with incredible speed while keeping privacy and security in mind."
 repository = "https://github.com/neon-mmd/websurfx"
diff --git a/dev.Dockerfile b/dev.Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..412283e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev.Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+# Create Builder image
+FROM --platform=$BUILDPLATFORM rust:1.73.0-alpine3.18
+
+# Install required dependencies
+RUN apk add --no-cache alpine-sdk musl-dev g++ make libcrypto3 libressl-dev perl build-base
+
+RUN cargo install cargo-watch --locked
+
+# Create project directory
+RUN mkdir -p /project
+WORKDIR /project
+
+ENV RUSTFLAGS="-C target-feature=-crt-static"
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["cargo"]
diff --git a/dev.docker-compose.yml b/dev.docker-compose.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f242849
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev.docker-compose.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+---
+version: "3.9"
+services:
+  redis:
+    container_name: redis
+    image: redis:6.2.5-alpine
+    tty: true
+    hostname: surfx-redis
+  websurx:
+    container_name: websurx-dev
+    image: websurfx:dev
+    working_dir: /project
+    tty: true
+    build:
+      context: .
+      dockerfile: dev.Dockerfile
+    ports:
+      - 8080:8080
+    volumes:
+      - type: bind
+        source: .
+        target: /project
+    command:
+      - watch
+      - -x
+      - run
diff --git a/src/engines/brave.rs b/src/engines/brave.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5c7c126
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/engines/brave.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+//! The `brave` module handles the scraping of results from the brave search engine
+//! by querying the upstream brave search engine with user provided query and with a page
+//! number if provided.
+
+use std::collections::HashMap;
+
+use reqwest::header::HeaderMap;
+use scraper::Html;
+
+use crate::models::aggregation_models::SearchResult;
+use error_stack::{Report, Result, ResultExt};
+
+use crate::models::engine_models::{EngineError, SearchEngine};
+
+use super::search_result_parser::SearchResultParser;
+
+/// Scrapes the results from the Brave search engine.  
+pub struct Brave {
+    /// Utilises generic logic for parsing search results.
+    parser: SearchResultParser,
+}
+
+impl Brave {
+    /// Creates the Brave parser.
+    pub fn new() -> Result<Brave, EngineError> {
+        Ok(Self {
+            parser: SearchResultParser::new(
+                "#results h4",
+                "#results [data-pos]",
+                "a > .url",
+                "a",
+                ".snippet-description",
+            )?,
+        })
+    }
+}
+
+#[async_trait::async_trait]
+impl SearchEngine for Brave {
+    async fn results(
+        &self,
+        query: &str,
+        page: u32,
+        user_agent: &str,
+        request_timeout: u8,
+        safe_search: u8,
+    ) -> Result<HashMap<String, SearchResult>, EngineError> {
+        let url = format!("https://search.brave.com/search?q={query}&offset={page}");
+
+        let safe_search_level = match safe_search {
+            0 => "off",
+            1 => "moderate",
+            _ => "strict",
+        };
+
+        let header_map = HeaderMap::try_from(&HashMap::from([
+            ("USER_AGENT".to_string(), user_agent.to_string()),
+            (
+                "CONTENT_TYPE".to_string(),
+                "application/x-www-form-urlencoded".to_string(),
+            ),
+            ("REFERER".to_string(), "https://google.com/".to_string()),
+            (
+                "COOKIE".to_string(),
+                format!("safe_search={safe_search_level}"),
+            ),
+        ]))
+        .change_context(EngineError::UnexpectedError)?;
+
+        let document: Html = Html::parse_document(
+            &Brave::fetch_html_from_upstream(self, &url, header_map, request_timeout).await?,
+        );
+
+        if let Some(no_result_msg) = self.parser.parse_for_no_results(&document).nth(0) {
+            if no_result_msg
+                .inner_html()
+                .contains("Not many great matches came back for your search")
+            {
+                return Err(Report::new(EngineError::EmptyResultSet));
+            }
+        }
+
+        self.parser
+            .parse_for_results(&document, |title, url, desc| {
+                url.value().attr("href").map(|url| {
+                    SearchResult::new(
+                        title.text().collect::<Vec<_>>().join("").trim(),
+                        url.trim(),
+                        desc.inner_html().trim(),
+                        &["brave"],
+                    )
+                })
+            })
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/engines/mod.rs b/src/engines/mod.rs
index 39b50c8..2892445 100644
--- a/src/engines/mod.rs
+++ b/src/engines/mod.rs
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 //! provide a standard functions to be implemented for all the upstream search engine handling
 //! code. Moreover, it also provides a custom error for the upstream search engine handling code.
 
+pub mod brave;
 pub mod duckduckgo;
 pub mod search_result_parser;
 pub mod searx;
diff --git a/src/models/engine_models.rs b/src/models/engine_models.rs
index 05b5a11..98367e8 100644
--- a/src/models/engine_models.rs
+++ b/src/models/engine_models.rs
@@ -150,6 +150,10 @@ impl EngineHandler {
                     let engine = crate::engines::searx::Searx::new()?;
                     ("searx", Box::new(engine))
                 }
+                "brave" => {
+                    let engine = crate::engines::brave::Brave::new()?;
+                    ("brave", Box::new(engine))
+                }
                 _ => {
                     return Err(Report::from(EngineError::NoSuchEngineFound(
                         engine_name.to_string(),
diff --git a/websurfx/config.lua b/websurfx/config.lua
index 09b418d..eeeb638 100644
--- a/websurfx/config.lua
+++ b/websurfx/config.lua
@@ -52,4 +52,5 @@ redis_url = "redis://127.0.0.1:8082" -- redis connection url address on which th
 upstream_search_engines = {
 	DuckDuckGo = true,
 	Searx = false,
+	Brave = false,
 } -- select the upstream search engines from which the results should be fetched.