Brave Search Server

Example Use Cases

• 1

  Perform general web searches with pagination, filtering, and freshness controls to retrieve up-to-date articles and news.

• 2

  Find local businesses, restaurants, and services with detailed local data and automatic fallback to web results when local data is unavailable.

• 3

  An easily deployable MCP-compatible search backend (Docker or NPX) that uses a single BRAVE_API_KEY for integration.

Description

This MCP server wraps the Brave Search API to offer web searches (with pagination, result filtering, and freshness controls) and local business/service search with detailed information. Local searches automatically fall back to web searches when no local results are found. It is deployable via Docker or NPX and requires a BRAVE_API_KEY from Brave's developer dashboard. The server is useful for agents that need real-time web results and local discovery without building direct API integrations.