brave-search-mcp-server

Item: brave-search-mcp-server
Rating: 74
Author: M8ven

Integrates Brave Search API to provide web, local, video, image, news, summarizer, place search, and LLM context capabilities through MCP.

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// key findings

⚠️

Tests do not pass

Either the test suite is broken or the code regressed. Either way the published behaviour can’t be verified by the publisher’s own tests.

✅

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 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_ALLOWED_HOSTS

configBRAVE_MCP_ALLOWED_ORIGINS

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

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")

configPORT

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commit: f6d7d40dfa14210cb04a321d74f771f71f344086

code hash: 65e2a6e5b43688bad18d1ef1a13cba033ddbb5b2738b938b0dcd5dbcfc6b9ecc

verified: 7/28/2026, 9:06:49 AM

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