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Brave Search MCP Server

@mikechao

Repository

Basic information

Category

Search

License

GPL-3.0

Transports

stdio

Author

mikechao

About Brave Search MCP Server

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

#mcp#image-search#news-search#video-search#web-search#brave-search#model-context-protocol

Brave Search MCP Server config

Add this server to your MCP-compatible client using the configuration below.

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

Brave Search MCP Server tools

6

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.

Overview

What is Brave Search MCP Server?

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.

How to use Brave Search MCP Server?

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.

Key features of Brave Search MCP Server

  • Web, image, news, and video search
  • Local points of interest search
  • LLM context search with customizable token and snippet limits
  • Streamable HTTP and stdio transport modes
  • Configurable request guardrails, auditing, and authentication
  • UI mode for use with ChatGPT web interface

Use cases of Brave Search MCP Server

  • Grounding AI agent responses with real-time web search results
  • Enabling RAG pipelines with pre-extracted web content
  • Searching for local businesses, restaurants, or services
  • Discovering recent news with freshness filtering
  • Fetching video and image results for multimedia applications

Frequently asked questions

1

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.

2

What runtime modes are supported?

The server supports stdio mode (default) and Streamable HTTP mode (enable with `--http`). HTTP mode listens on port 3001 by default.

3

How do I configure feature settings?

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.

4

Can I use this server with ChatGPT?

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.

5

What are the search result limits?

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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