About
Brave Search Server integrates the Brave Search API to provide comprehensive web search capabilities for AI applications. It enables searching the web, images, news, videos, and local points of interest directly from LLM workflows. Key features include: - Web search with configurable result counts, pagination, and freshness filters (past day, week, month, year, or custom date ranges) - Image search with bulk retrieval capabilities (up to 50 results) - News search for finding articles, trending topics, and recent events with temporal filtering - Video search for discovering web videos - Local points of interest search for businesses, restaurants, and services (requires Brave Search Pro API subscription)
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Brave Search MCP Server
An MCP Server implementation that integrates the Brave Search API, providing, Web Search, Local Points of Interest Search, Video Search, Image Search and News Search capabilities
Features
Tools
query (string): The term to search the internet for
- count (number, optional): The number of results to return (max 20, default 10)
- offset (number, optional, default 0): The offset for pagination
- freshness (enum, optional): Filters search results by when they were discovered
- The following values are supported
- pd: Discovered within the last 24 hours.
- pw: Discovered within the last 7 Days.
- pm: Discovered within the last 31 Days.
- py: Discovered within the last 365 Days
- YYYY-MM-DDtoYYYY-MM-DD: Custom date range (e.g., 2022-04-01to2022-07-30)query (string): The term to search the internet for images of
- count (number, optional): The number of images to return (max 50, default 10)query (string): The term to search the internet for news articles, trending topics, or recent events
- count (number, optional): The number of results to return (max 20, default 10)
- offset (number, optional, default 0): The zero-based offset for pagination (max 9)
- freshness (enum, optional): Filters search results by when they were discovered
- The following values are supported
- pd: Discovered within the last 24 hours.
- pw: Discovered within the last 7 Days.
- pm: Discovered within the last 31 Days.
- py: Discovered within the last 365 Days
- YYYY-MM-DDtoYYYY-MM-DD: Custom date range (e.g., 2022-04-01to2022-07-30)query (string): Local search term
- count (number, optional): The number of results to return (max 20, default 5)
- offset (number, optional, default 0): The zero-based offset for pagination (max 9)query: (string): The term to search for videos
- count: (number, optional): The number of videos to return (max 20, default 10)
- offset (number, optional, default 0): The zero-based offset for pagination (max 9)
- freshness (enum, optional): Filters search results by when they were discovered
- The following values are supported
- pd: Discovered within the last 24 hours.
- pw: Discovered within the last 7 Days.
- pm: Discovered within the last 31 Days.
- py: Discovered within the last 365 Days
- YYYY-MM-DDtoYYYY-MM-DD: Custom date range (e.g., 2022-04-01to2022-07-30)OpenAI Apps & MCP Apps Support
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There is now support for OpenAI Apps and MCP Apps in this MCP Server. When UI mode is enabled for each tool there is a corresponding UI widget that let's you control what gets added to the model's context. See the directions in usage with ChatGPT section.
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
Streamable HTTP mode
By default the MCP server runs in stdio mode.
BRAVE_API_KEY="your_key_here" npx -y brave-search-mcp
To enable Streamable HTTP mode:
BRAVE_API_KEY="your_key_here" npx -y brave-search-mcp --http
By default the server listens on port 3001. The URL is:
``` http://0.0.0.0:3001/mc
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