Brave Search MCP Server

Example Use Cases

• 1

  Up-to-date web search results with structured metadata (snippets, URLs, rankings, and filtering) for information retrieval and context enrichment.

• 2

  Local business/place lookups with rich details (ratings, hours, location-specific filtering, and AI-generated descriptions) — available on Pro plans.

• 3

  AI-powered summaries of web search results or to retrieve image, video, and news metadata for downstream processing and presentation.

Description

This MCP server exposes Brave Search capabilities (web, local, image, video, news) and a summarizer tool via the Model Context Protocol, with STDIO as the default transport and optional HTTP mode. It supports rich result types, filtering, spellcheck, safesearch, pagination, and Pro-only features like local search and extra snippets. The project includes integrations and usage examples for Claude Desktop, VS Code, Smithery, Docker, and local development workflows. It is designed to let agents perform structured searches and request AI summaries using Brave's APIs.