Brave Search MCP Server

Item: Brave Search MCP Server
Rating: 50
Author: M8ven

An MCP Server implementation that integrates the Brave Search API, providing, Web Search, Local Points of Interest Search, Image Search, Video Search and News Search capabilities

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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.

✅

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_key_here" npx -y brave-search-mcp

configHOST— (optional): Interface to bind to (default: 0.0.0.0).

configINPUT

configPORT— (optional): HTTP port (default: 3001).

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// improvement guidance — verified publishers only

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commit: 89d1869419235d67326d5e49c3818e72d054b066

code hash: 6bd00cb683d2df7cca6b70a1be17b9e66270fe208549a041c16b6d15b70efae5

verified: 7/2/2026, 9:18:58 AM

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