# Search Expenses — Brex

> Searches expenses across card, bill pay, and reimbursement spend by merchant, amount, date, person, type, or status. Covers every payment method and carries receipt and approval state; use Search Card Transactions for settled card postings…

- Key: `brex-search-expenses`
- Type: Action (Read-only)
- Version: 0.0.1
- App: Brex (`brex`) — https://pipedream.com/apps/brex.md
- This page (HTML): https://pipedream.com/apps/brex/actions/search-expenses
- Hints: read-only · open-world
- Source: https://github.com/PipedreamHQ/pipedream/blob/master/components/brex/actions/search-expenses/search-expenses.mjs

## Description

Searches expenses across card, bill pay, and reimbursement spend by merchant, amount, date, person, type, or status. Covers every payment method and carries receipt and approval state; use **Search Card Transactions** for settled card postings only. [See the documentation](https://developer.brex.com/openapi/expenses_api/expenses/listexpenses)

## Props

| Prop | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `purchasedAtStart` | `string` | No | Only return expenses purchased on or after this date-time, in RFC 3339 format, e.g. 2024-01-01T00:00:00.000Z. |
| `purchasedAtEnd` | `string` | No | Only return expenses purchased on or before this date-time, in RFC 3339 format, e.g. 2024-01-31T23:59:59.999Z. |
| `userIds` | `string[]` | No | Only return expenses belonging to these people, e.g. ["cuuser_example"]. Use List Users to find a user ID by email address. |
| `expenseType` | `string[]` | No | Only return expenses of these types. |
| `status` | `string[]` | No | Only return expenses in these expense statuses. |
| `paymentStatus` | `string[]` | No | Only return expenses in these payment states. |
| `merchantQuery` | `string` | No | Case-insensitive substring match on the merchant descriptor, e.g. amazon matches AMAZON WEB SERVICES. Brex has no server-side merchant filter, so this is applied after fetching. |
| `minAmount` | `integer` | No | Only return records of at least this amount, in the currency's smallest denomination — 700 is $7.00 in USD. Applied after fetching, like Merchant. |
| `maxAmount` | `integer` | No | Only return records of at most this amount, in the currency's smallest denomination — 700 is $7.00 in USD. Applied after fetching, like Merchant. |
| `maxResults` | `integer` | No | The maximum number of records to return, from 1 to 2000. Defaults to 100. |

## Run it

**MCP**

```ts
import { Client } from "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk/client/index.js"
import { StreamableHTTPClientTransport } from "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk/client/streamableHttp.js"
import { PipedreamClient } from "@pipedream/sdk"

const pd = new PipedreamClient({
  projectId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_PROJECT_ID!,
  clientId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_ID!,
  clientSecret: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_SECRET!,
  projectEnvironment: "production",
})

const accessToken = await pd.rawAccessToken

const transport = new StreamableHTTPClientTransport(
  new URL("https://remote.mcp.pipedream.net/v3"),
  {
    requestInit: {
      headers: {
        Authorization: `Bearer ${accessToken}`,
        "x-pd-project-id": process.env.PIPEDREAM_PROJECT_ID!,
        "x-pd-environment": "production",
        "x-pd-external-user-id": "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
        "x-pd-app-slug": "brex",
      },
    },
  },
)

const mcp = new Client({ name: "my-agent", version: "1.0.0" })
await mcp.connect(transport)

const { tools } = await mcp.listTools()

// listTools() hands your model this tool's input schema, so it can
// fill the arguments itself:
const result = await mcp.callTool({
  name: "brex-search-expenses",
  arguments: {
    purchasedAtStart: "Purchased At Start",
    purchasedAtEnd: "Purchased At End",
  },
})
```

**TypeScript**

```ts
import { PipedreamClient } from "@pipedream/sdk"

const pd = new PipedreamClient({
  projectId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_PROJECT_ID!,
  clientId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_ID!,
  clientSecret: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_SECRET!,
  projectEnvironment: "production",
})

const result = await pd.actions.run({
  id: "brex-search-expenses",
  externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
  configuredProps: {
    brex: { authProvisionId: "apn_xxxxxxx" },
    purchasedAtStart: "Purchased At Start",
    purchasedAtEnd: "Purchased At End",
  },
})

console.log(result)
```

**cURL**

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.pipedream.com/v1/connect/{project_id}/actions/run \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "X-PD-Environment: production" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer {access_token}" \
  -d '{
    "external_user_id": "{external_user_id}",
    "id": "brex-search-expenses",
    "configured_props": {
      "brex": { "authProvisionId": "apn_xxxxxxx" },
      "purchasedAtStart": "Purchased At Start",
      "purchasedAtEnd": "Purchased At End"
    }
  }'
```

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