Brave Search

Integrates Brave's Search API to provide web search, local business search, image search, video search, news search, and summarization capabilities with advanced filtering options and content safety controls.

→ brave/brave-search-mcp-server· npm: @brave/brave-search-mcp-server· 471K installs· listed on pulsemcp

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// key findings

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No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

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Open source with a license and README

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You'll be asked for 1 credential: BRAVE_API_KEY

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

🔐 secretBRAVE_API_KEY— Your Brave Search API key (required unless BRAVE_API_KEY_FILE is set)

configBRAVE_API_KEY_FILE— BRAVE_API_KEY: Your Brave Search API key (required unless is set)

configBRAVE_MCP_DISABLED_TOOLS— When used, specifies a space-separated blacklist for supported tools

configBRAVE_MCP_ENABLED_TOOLS— When used, specifies a space-separated whitelist for supported tools

configBRAVE_MCP_HOST— HTTP server host (default: "0.0.0.0")

configBRAVE_MCP_LOG_LEVEL— Desired logging level("debug", "info", "notice", "warning", "error", "critical", "alert", or "emergency", default: "info")

configBRAVE_MCP_PORT— HTTP server port (default: 8080)

configBRAVE_MCP_STATELESS— HTTP stateless mode (default: "true"). When running on Amazon Bedrock Agentcore, set to "true".

configBRAVE_MCP_TRANSPORT— Transport mode ("http" or "stdio", default: "stdio")

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commit: fd28e3e7b3e1911b4a2ba87a199feb86ec173c60

code hash: 7bb6ae25295aed23de56da5380d0622de76329c29707381c6f6b49ffd5ebdfca

verified: 7/5/2026, 9:11:01 AM

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