Brave Search MCP Server

An MCP server implementation that integrates the Brave Search API, providing both web and local search capabilities.

Features

Web Search: General queries, news, articles, with pagination and freshness controls
Local Search: Find businesses, restaurants, and services with detailed information
Flexible Filtering: Control result types, safety levels, and content freshness
Smart Fallbacks: Local search automatically falls back to web when no results are found

brave_web_search
- Execute web searches with pagination and filtering
- Inputs:
  - query (string): Search terms
  - count (number, optional): Results per page (max 20)
  - offset (number, optional): Pagination offset (max 9)
brave_local_search
- Search for local businesses and services
- Inputs:
  - query (string): Local search terms
  - count (number, optional): Number of results (max 20)
- Automatically falls back to web search if no local results found

Add this to your claude_desktop_config.json:

"mcp-server-brave-search": {
  "command": "mcp-server-brave-search",
  "env": {
    "BRAVE_API_KEY": "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE"
  }
}