Brave Search Features
- •Web search with pagination and filtering
- •Local business and service search
- •Smart fallback from local to web search
- •Control result types and safety levels
- •Content freshness controls
- •Flexible result count and pagination
- •News and article search capabilities
Brave Search Setup & Configuration
Requirements
- •Brave Search API account
- •API key (Free tier: 2,000 queries/month)
- •Docker or Node.js
- •Claude Desktop
Installation Instructions
# Docker Installation
docker build -t mcp/brave-search:latest -f src/brave-search/Dockerfile .
docker run -i --rm -e BRAVE_API_KEY mcp/brave-search
# NPX Installation
npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-brave-searchConfiguration
# Docker Configuration
{
"mcpServers": {
"brave-search": {
"command": "docker",
"args": [
"run",
"-i",
"--rm",
"-e",
"BRAVE_API_KEY",
"mcp/brave-search"
],
"env": {
"BRAVE_API_KEY": "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE"
}
}
}
}
# NPX Configuration
{
"mcpServers": {
"brave-search": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@modelcontextprotocol/server-brave-search"
],
"env": {
"BRAVE_API_KEY": "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE"
}
}
}
}Brave Search Available Tools
- •
brave_web_search - •
brave_local_search
Brave Search Required Inputs
BRAVE_API_KEY
- Type
- string
- Description
- Your Brave Search API key
- Required
- Yes
query
- Type
- string
- Description
- Search terms
- Required
- Yes
count
- Type
- number
- Description
- Results per page (max 20)
- Required
- No
offset
- Type
- number
- Description
- Pagination offset (max 9)
- Required
- No
Brave Search Use Cases
- •General web search and research
- •Local business discovery
- •News and article retrieval
- •Location-based service search
- •Content filtering and safety controls
- •Paginated search results
- •Fresh content discovery
Frequently Asked Questions
An MCP server implementation that integrates the Brave Search API, providing both web and local search capabilities with smart fallbacks and flexible filtering options.
Brave Search API account, API key (Free tier: 2,000 queries/month), Docker or Node.js, Claude DesktopView detailed requirements
Follow the installation instructions in the setup section above.View installation guide
Brave Search MCP provides the following tools:
- •
brave_web_search - •
brave_local_search
