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Brave Search MCP
mikechao/brave-search-mcp
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.
Install
npx -y brave-search-mcpClient configuration
{
"mcpServers": {
"server": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"brave-search-mcp"
],
"env": {
"BRAVE_API_KEY": "<BRAVE_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}Environment variables
BRAVE_API_KEY- GitHub stars
- 1
- Author
- @mikechao
- Category
- Research & Data, Search Tools
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Updated
- Oct 6, 2026
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 (6)
brave_web_search
brave_image_search
brave_news_search
brave_local_search
brave_video_search
brave_llm_context_search
Details on this page are taken from the project's README. Open README
Supported clients
Clients mentioned in this server's README:
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