Brave Search Mcp Server

Item: Brave Search Mcp Server
Rating: 98
Author: M8ven

An MCP server implementation that integrates the Brave Search API, providing comprehensive search capabilities including web search, local business search, image search, video search, news search, and AI-powered summarization. This project supports both STDIO and HTTP transports, with STDIO as the default mode.

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// key findings

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

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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)

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: 8000)

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: 759b9a880dfe69adcfacb711365c192a305aba50

code hash: 6451e1641048166da8507ef4b8bdc750da311dae6ca0f6abeb4de0cfc28ebabd

verified: 6/16/2026, 1:06:05 PM

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