Brave Search▌

by anthropic
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Integrate web search and local search capabilities with Brave. Brave Search allows you to seamlessly integrate Brave Search functionality into AI assistants like Claude. By implementing a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, it enables the AI to leverage Brave Search's web search and local business search capabilities. It provides tools for both general web searches and specific local searches, enhancing the AI assistant's ability to provide relevant and up-to-date information.
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best for
- / Research and content creation workflows
- / Building search-enabled AI applications
- / Local business discovery and analysis
- / News monitoring and aggregation
capabilities
- / Search the web with freshness filters
- / Find images by search terms
- / Search for news articles
- / Search for videos
- / Find local businesses and points of interest
- / Extract full webpage content for LLM analysis
what it does
Connects to Brave's search API to perform web, image, video, news, and local business searches with configurable filters and pagination.
about
Brave Search is an official MCP server published by anthropic that provides AI assistants with tools and capabilities via the Model Context Protocol. Enhance your AI assistant with Brave Search and an MCP server for powerful web & local business queries—an alternative t It is categorized under search web.
how to install
You can install Brave Search in your AI client of choice. Use the install panel on this page to get one-click setup for Cursor, Claude Desktop, VS Code, and other MCP-compatible clients. This server runs locally on your machine via the stdio transport.
license
MIT
Brave Search is released under the MIT license. This is a permissive open-source license, meaning you can freely use, modify, and distribute the software.