Brave Search Mcp

Name: Brave Search Mcp
Author: mikechao

brave-search-mcp · by mikechao

An MCP Server implementation that integrates the Brave Search API, providing, Web Search, Local Points of Interest Search, Image Search, Video Search, News Search and LLM Context Search capabilities

117 256/wk 0 tools GitHub npm

No known CVEs

GPL-3.0 license

Actively maintained

Last commit 4d ago

Works with most clients

Transport: stdio, sse, http

0 tools

Grade F

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Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio, sse, http · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "brave-search-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "brave-search-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

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An MCP Server implementation that integrates the Brave Search API, providing, Web Search, Local Points of Interest Search, Video Search, Image Search, News Search and LLM Context Search capabilities

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Is Brave Search Mcp safe to use?: Brave Search Mcp has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under GPL-3.0.
How do I install Brave Search Mcp?: Brave Search Mcp supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
What AI clients work with Brave Search Mcp?: Brave Search Mcp is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.
Is Brave Search Mcp actively maintained?: Brave Search Mcp is actively maintained — last commit was 4 days ago. It has 117 GitHub stars.

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Features

Web Search: Perform a regular search on the web

Image Search: Search the web for images.

News Search: Search the web for news

Video Search: Search the web for videos

Local Points of Interest Search: Search for local physical locations, businesses, restaurants, services, etc

LLM Context Search: Fetch and extract full web page content optimized for reading and synthesizing sources

Tools

brave_web_search

Execute web searches using Brave's API
Inputs:
- query (string): The term to search the internet for
- count (number, optional): The number of results to return (max 20, default 10)
- offset (number, optional, default 0): The offset for pagination
- freshness (enum, optional): Filters search results by when they were discovered
  - The following values are supported
    - pd: Discovered within the last 24 hours.
    - pw: Discovered within the last 7 Days.
    - pm: Discovered within the last 31 Days.
    - py: Discovered within the last 365 Days
    - YYYY-MM-DDtoYYYY-MM-DD: Custom date range (e.g., 2022-04-01to2022-07-30)

brave_image_search

Get images from the web relevant to the query
Inputs:
- query (string): The term to search the internet for images of
- count (number, optional): The number of images to return (max 50, default 10)

brave_news_search

Searches the web for news
Inputs:
- query (string): The term to search the internet for news articles, trending topics, or recent events
- count (number, optional): The number of results to return (max 20, default 10)
- offset (number, optional, default 0): The zero-based offset for pagination (max 9)
- freshness (enum, optional): Filters search results by when they were discovered
  - The following values are supported
    - pd: Discovered within the last 24 hours.
    - pw: Discovered within the last 7 Days.
    - pm: Discovered within the last 31 Days.
    - py: Discovered within the last 365 Days
    - YYYY-MM-DDtoYYYY-MM-DD: Custom date range (e.g., 2022-04-01to2022-07-30)

brave_local_search

Search for local businesses, services and points of interest
Falls back to brave_web_search on the initial page if no location results are found
Inputs:
- query (string): Local search term
- count (number, optional): The number of results to return (max 20, default 5)
- offset (number, optional, default 0): The zero-based offset for pagination (max 9)

brave_video_search

Search the web for videos
Inputs:
- query: (string): The term to search for videos
- count: (number, optional): The number of videos to return (max 20, default 10)
- offset (number, optional, default 0): The zero-based offset for pagination (max 9)
- freshness (enum, optional): Filters search results by when they were discovered
  - The following values are supported
    - pd: Discovered within the last 24 hours.
    - pw: Discovered within the last 7 Days.
    - pm: Discovered within the last 31 Days.
    - py: Discovered within the last 365 Days
    - YYYY-MM-DDtoYYYY-MM-DD: Custom date range (e.g., 2022-04-01to2022-07-30)

brave_llm_context_search

Pre-extracted web content optimized for AI agents, LLM grounding, and RAG pipelines.
Uses Brave's balanced context threshold mode in compact mode and disables Brave relevance filtering in full mode.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Brave Search Mcp safe to use?

Brave Search Mcp has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under GPL-3.0.

How do I install Brave Search Mcp?

Brave Search Mcp supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.

What AI clients work with Brave Search Mcp?

Brave Search Mcp is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.

Is Brave Search Mcp actively maintained?

Brave Search Mcp is actively maintained — last commit was 4 days ago. It has 117 GitHub stars.

Features

Web Search: Perform a regular search on the web

Image Search: Search the web for images.

News Search: Search the web for news

Video Search: Search the web for videos

Local Points of Interest Search: Search for local physical locations, businesses, restaurants, services, etc

LLM Context Search: Fetch and extract full web page content optimized for reading and synthesizing sources

Tools

brave_web_search

Execute web searches using Brave's API
Inputs:
- query (string): The term to search the internet for
- count (number, optional): The number of results to return (max 20, default 10)
- offset (number, optional, default 0): The offset for pagination
- freshness (enum, optional): Filters search results by when they were discovered
  - The following values are supported
    - pd: Discovered within the last 24 hours.
    - pw: Discovered within the last 7 Days.
    - pm: Discovered within the last 31 Days.
    - py: Discovered within the last 365 Days
    - YYYY-MM-DDtoYYYY-MM-DD: Custom date range (e.g., 2022-04-01to2022-07-30)

brave_image_search

Get images from the web relevant to the query
Inputs:
- query (string): The term to search the internet for images of
- count (number, optional): The number of images to return (max 50, default 10)

brave_news_search

Searches the web for news
Inputs:
- query (string): The term to search the internet for news articles, trending topics, or recent events
- count (number, optional): The number of results to return (max 20, default 10)
- offset (number, optional, default 0): The zero-based offset for pagination (max 9)
- freshness (enum, optional): Filters search results by when they were discovered
  - The following values are supported
    - pd: Discovered within the last 24 hours.
    - pw: Discovered within the last 7 Days.
    - pm: Discovered within the last 31 Days.
    - py: Discovered within the last 365 Days
    - YYYY-MM-DDtoYYYY-MM-DD: Custom date range (e.g., 2022-04-01to2022-07-30)

brave_local_search

Search for local businesses, services and points of interest
Falls back to brave_web_search on the initial page if no location results are found
Inputs:
- query (string): Local search term
- count (number, optional): The number of results to return (max 20, default 5)
- offset (number, optional, default 0): The zero-based offset for pagination (max 9)

brave_video_search

Search the web for videos
Inputs:
- query: (string): The term to search for videos
- count: (number, optional): The number of videos to return (max 20, default 10)
- offset (number, optional, default 0): The zero-based offset for pagination (max 9)
- freshness (enum, optional): Filters search results by when they were discovered
  - The following values are supported
    - pd: Discovered within the last 24 hours.
    - pw: Discovered within the last 7 Days.
    - pm: Discovered within the last 31 Days.
    - py: Discovered within the last 365 Days
    - YYYY-MM-DDtoYYYY-MM-DD: Custom date range (e.g., 2022-04-01to2022-07-30)

brave_llm_context_search

Pre-extracted web content optimized for AI agents, LLM grounding, and RAG pipelines.
Uses Brave's balanced context threshold mode in compact mode and disables Brave relevance filtering in full mode.