Integrates with Brave Search API to provide web search and local business search capabilities, including pagination, filtering, and content freshness controls
Brave Search MCP Server
An MCP server implementation that integrates the Brave Search API, providing both web 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
- brave_web_search
- Execute web searches with pagination and filtering
- Inputs:
query
(string): Search termscount
(number, optional): Results per page (max 20)offset
(number, optional): Pagination offset (max 9)
- brave_local_search
- Search for local businesses and services
- Inputs:
query
(string): Local search termscount
(number, optional): Number of results (max 20)
- Automatically falls back to web search if no local results found
Configuration
Getting an API Key
- Sign up for a Brave Search API account
- Choose a plan (Free tier available with 2,000 queries/month)
- Generate your API key from the developer dashboard
Usage with Claude Desktop
Add this to your claude_desktop_config.json
:
Docker
NPX
Usage with VS Code
For quick installation, use the one-click installation buttons below...
For manual installation, add the following JSON block to your User Settings (JSON) file in VS Code. You can do this by pressing Ctrl + Shift + P
and typing Preferences: Open User Settings (JSON)
.
Optionally, you can add it to a file called .vscode/mcp.json
in your workspace. This will allow you to share the configuration with others.
Note that the
mcp
key is not needed in the.vscode/mcp.json
file.
Docker
NPX
Build
Docker build:
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.
This server cannot be installed
remote-capable server
The server can be hosted and run remotely because it primarily relies on remote services or has no dependency on the local environment.
Enables web searching and local business discovery through the Brave Search API. Provides both general web search with pagination and filtering controls, plus local business search with automatic fallback to web results.
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