Search the web, images, videos, news, and local places through Brave's independent index. Get comprehensive web search with FAQ/Discussion/News/Video results, local business and POI lookup, dedicated media and news endpoints, AI-generated summarization, and pre-extracted, relevance-ranked page content for RAG grounding.
VS Code
Encrypted at rest, isolated from the model
Resolved from an AES-256-GCM vault at the moment of the call and attached to the request — the model never sees the secrets.
Try asking
Performs web searches using the Brave Search API and returns comprehensive search results with rich metadata. When to use: - General web searches for information, facts, or current topics - Location-based queries (restaurants, businesses, points of interest) - News searches for recent events or breaking stories - Finding videos, discussions, or FAQ content Returns a JSON list of web results with title, description, and URL. When result_filter is empty, results may also contain FAQ, Discussions, News, and Video items.
Searches for local businesses and places via the Brave Search API. Returns ratings, addresses, phone numbers, hours, and AI descriptions. Access to enriched POI data requires a Brave Search API Pro plan; the tool gracefully falls back to web results if local data is unavailable.
Searches for videos via the Brave Search API. Returns titles, URLs, durations, view counts, creators, and thumbnails.
Searches for images via the Brave Search API. Returns direct image URLs, source pages, and dimensions. Images are returned as URLs — no base64 encoding.
Searches for current news articles via the Brave Search API. Returns headlines, sources, publication age, and descriptions.
Retrieves points of interest (POIs) with structured business data via Brave's dedicated place-search endpoint. Returns addresses, hours, ratings, categories, and contact info. Geographic context is required — provide latitude/longitude or a location string (e.g. 'san francisco ca united states'). Access requires a Brave Search API Pro plan.
Retrieves an AI-generated summary of web search results using Brave's Summarizer API. Workflow: call search_web with summary=true first, then pass the returned summarizer_key to this tool. Requires a Brave Search API Pro AI subscription.
Retrieves pre-extracted, relevance-ranked web content using Brave's LLM Context API, optimised for AI agents, LLM grounding, and RAG pipelines. Unlike a web search (links + short descriptions), this tool returns the actual substance of matching pages — text chunks, tables, code blocks — so the model can reason over it directly. When to use: - Grounding answers in fresh, relevant web content (RAG) - Question answering and fact-checking against current sources - Gathering source material without manually fetching pages When relaying results in markdown environments, cite source URLs from the 'sources' map.
Brave Search MCP Server is open source. Tell the MewCP maintainers.
One endpoint, the same key, whichever client you use.
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (Mac) · %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json (Windows)
Replace API_KEY with your own key.
Already have an "mcpServers" section in your config? Just add the server entry inside it.
Discovery, routing, credentials, tool scoping and execution logs all happen at the gateway→connections stay ACTIVE with no work from you
Brave Search runs through a gateway that holds the credentials, scopes the access and records every call.
Managed auth, hosted MCP servers, and every Brave Search tool your agent needs.
Free to start.
