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, News Search and LLM Context Search capabilities

Features

• Web Search: Perform a regular search on the web
• Image Search: Search the web for images.
• News Search: Search the web for news
• Video Search: Search the web for videos
• Local Points of Interest Search: Search for local physical locations, businesses, restaurants, services, etc
• LLM Context Search: Fetch and extract full web page content optimized for reading and synthesizing sources

Tools

• brave_web_search

  • Execute web searches using Brave's API
  • Inputs:
    • 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)

• brave_image_search

  • Get images from the web relevant to the query
  • Inputs:
    • query (string): The term to search the internet for images of
    • count (number, optional): The number of images to return (max 50, default 10)

• brave_news_search

  • Searches the web for news
  • Inputs:
    • 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)

• brave_local_search

  • Search for local businesses, services and points of interest
  • Falls back to brave_web_search on the initial page if no location results are found
  • Inputs:
    • 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)