Brave Search MCP Server

Category: Search

An MCP server that integrates the Brave Search API, providing web search and local search capabilities.

Features

• Web Search: General queries, news, articles, with pagination and freshness controls
• Local Search: Find businesses, restaurants, and services with detailed information
• Flexible Filtering: Control result types, safety levels, and content freshness
• Smart Fallbacks: Local search automatically falls back to web when no results are found

Tools

Web Search

• brave_web_search
  • Execute web searches with pagination and filtering
  • Inputs:
    • query (string): Search terms
    • count (number, optional): Results per page (max 20)
    • offset (number, optional): Pagination offset (max 9)

Local Discovery

• brave_local_search
  • Search for local businesses and services
  • Inputs:
    • query (string): Local search terms
    • count (number, optional): Number of results (max 20)
  • Automatically falls back to web search if no local results found

Configuration

Getting an API Key

1. Sign up for a Brave Search API account
2. Choose a plan (Free tier available with 2,000 queries/month)
3. Generate your API key from the developer dashboard

Usage with Claude Desktop

Add this to your claude_desktop_config.json:

Docker

{
  "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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "brave-search": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@integrabot/brave-search"
      ],
      "env": {
        "BRAVE_API_KEY": "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE"
      }
    }
  }
}

Timeouts

This server implements a 15-second timeout on all API requests to prevent blocking.

Build

Docker build:

docker build -t mcp/brave-search:latest -f Dockerfile .

License

This MCP server is licensed under the MIT License. This means you are free to use, modify, and distribute the software, subject to the terms and conditions of the MIT License. For more details, please see the LICENSE file in the project repository.