What API key is required?
You must have a Brave Search API key. Sign up at the Brave Search API website, choose a plan, and generate your key from the developer dashboard.
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基本情報
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
以下の設定を使って、このサーバーを MCP 対応クライアントに追加してください。
{
"mcpServers": {
"brave-search-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"brave-search-mcp"
],
"env": {
"BRAVE_API_KEY": "your_key_here"
}
}
}
}Execute web searches using Brave's API
Get images from the web relevant to the query
Searches the web for news
Search for local businesses, services and points of interest
Search the web for videos
Pre-extracted web content optimized for AI agents, LLM grounding, and RAG pipelines.
The Brave Search MCP Server integrates the Brave Search API, providing web, image, news, video, local points of interest, and LLM context search capabilities. It is designed for developers and AI agents who need structured search results within the Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem.
Obtain a Brave Search API key from the Brave developer dashboard, then run BRAVE_API_KEY="your_key_here" npx -y brave-search-mcp for stdio mode or add --http for Streamable HTTP mode. Configuration can be done via environment variables or a TOML file (set BRAVE_MCP_CONFIG). To use with ChatGPT, run in HTTP+UI mode, expose via ngrok, and add a connector in ChatGPT settings.
You must have a Brave Search API key. Sign up at the Brave Search API website, choose a plan, and generate your key from the developer dashboard.
The server supports stdio mode (default) and Streamable HTTP mode (enable with `--http`). HTTP mode listens on port 3001 by default.
Feature settings can be set via environment variables (Env mode) or a TOML configuration file (File mode, set `BRAVE_MCP_CONFIG`). The API key, port, and host are always read from the environment.
Yes. Run the server with `--http --ui`, create a local tunnel with ngrok, and add the server as an MCP Connector in ChatGPT's developer mode. Authentication is set to "No Auth" for this method.
Web, news, video, and local searches have a maximum count of 20 results (default 10 or 5 for local). Image search max count is 50. LLM context search has configurable limits on tokens (max 32768), snippets (max 100), and URLs (max 50).

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