Brave Search

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Connects to Brave's search API to perform web, image, video, news, and local business searches with configurable filters and pagination.

Integrate web search and local search capabilities with Brave. Brave Search allows you to seamlessly integrate Brave Search functionality into AI assistants like Claude. By implementing a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, it enables the AI to leverage Brave Search's web search and local business search capabilities. It provides tools for both general web searches and specific local searches, enhancing the AI assistant's ability to provide relevant and up-to-date information.

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What it does

Search the web with freshness filters
Find images by search terms
Search for news articles
Search for videos
Find local businesses and points of interest
Extract full webpage content for LLM analysis

Best for

Research and content creation workflowsBuilding search-enabled AI applicationsLocal business discovery and analysisNews monitoring and aggregation

Multiple search types in one serverConfigurable result counts and paginationDate range filtering for fresh results

About Brave Search

Brave Search is an official MCP server published by anthropic that provides AI assistants with tools and capabilities via the Model Context Protocol. Enhance your AI assistant with Brave Search and an MCP server for powerful web & local business queries—an alternative t It is categorized under search web.

How to install

You can install Brave Search in your AI client of choice. Use the install panel on this page to get one-click setup for Cursor, Claude Desktop, VS Code, and other MCP-compatible clients. This server runs locally on your machine via the stdio transport.

License

Brave Search is released under the MIT license. This is a permissive open-source license, meaning you can freely use, modify, and distribute the software.

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