# mcp-brave-search

> MCP server for Brave Search API, providing web and local search capabilities

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/mcp-brave-search-2/claim

## Declared
- version: 0.1.1
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:mcp-brave-search

### Description (declared)

MCP Brave Search Server 
An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that integrates with the Brave Search API to provide web and local search capabilities for Large Language Models (LLMs). 
Features 
 
brave_web_search: Performs general web searches for news, articles, and online content. 
brave_local_search: Searches for local businesses and places, with fallback to web search if no local results are found. 
Rate limiting to respect Brave API constraints. 
Asynchronous HTTP requests using httpx. 
 
Installation 
pip install mcp-brave-search 
 
Requirements 
 
Python 3.9 or higher 
A Brave Search API key (set as BRAVE_API_KEY environment variable) 
 
Setup 
 
Obtain a Brave Search API key from Brave Search API. 
Set the API key in a .env file or as an environment variable:export BRAVE_API_KEY="your-api-key" 
 
 
Install the package:pip install mcp-brave-search 
 
 
 
Usage 
Run the server: 
mcp-brave-search 
 
To integrate with an MCP client like Claude Desktop, add the following to claude_desktop_config.json: 
{ 
  "mcpServers": { 
    "brave_search": { 
      "command": "uvx", 
      "args": ["mcp-brave-search"] 
    } 
  } 
} 
 
If you’re not using uvx, adjust the command to use python or the path to your Python executable: 
json 
 
{ 
  "mcpServers": { 
    "brave_search": { 
      "command": "python", 
      "args": ["-m", "brave_search.server"] 
    } 
  } 
} 
 
Tools 
 
brave_web_search: Search the web with pagination support. 
Inputs: query (string), count (1-20, default 10), offset (0-9, default 0) 
Example: brave_web_search(query="python tutorials", count=5) 
 
 
brave_local_search: Search for local businesses or places. 
Inputs: query (string), count (1-20, default 5) 
Example: brave_local_search(query="pizza near Central Park") 
 
 
 
Development 
To contribute or modify the server: 
 
Clone the repository:git clone https://github.com/your-repo/mcp-brave-search.git 
 
 
Install dependencies:pip install -r requirements.txt 
 
 
Run the server locally:python …

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- data.web-search (1, derived)
- dev.version-control (1, derived)
- dev.package-management (0.859, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/mcp-brave-search/ (first seen 2026-09-10T00:24:33.989Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/mcp-brave-search-2/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/mcp-brave-search-2 · ARD identifier urn:air::server:mcp-brave-search-2