This MCP server integrates the Brave Search API to provide various search capabilities including web, local business, image, video, news searches, and AI-powered summarization.
From the registry: Brave Search MCP Server: web results, images, videos, rich results, AI summaries, and more.
Please install the `brave-search-mcp-server` MCP server into my current AI client (that's you).
Required prerequisites (do these first if not already done):
- **Brave Search API key** — Sign up at brave.com/search/api and generate a key (https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/keys)
Canonical MCP server config (stdio transport):
- command: `npx`
- args: ["-y","@brave/brave-search-mcp-server","--transport","stdio"]
- required environment variables:
- `BRAVE_API_KEY`: Brave Search API key (example: `<placeholder>`)
- optional environment variables:
- `BRAVE_MCP_TRANSPORT`: Transport mode (stdio or http) (example: `stdio`)
- `BRAVE_MCP_PORT`: HTTP server port (example: `8000`)
- `BRAVE_MCP_HOST`: HTTP server host (example: `0.0.0.0`)
- `BRAVE_MCP_LOG_LEVEL`: Logging level (example: `info`)
- `BRAVE_MCP_ENABLED_TOOLS`: Whitelist of enabled tools
- `BRAVE_MCP_DISABLED_TOOLS`: Blacklist of disabled tools
- `BRAVE_MCP_STATELESS`: HTTP stateless mode (example: `true`)
Add this MCP server to my current client's config in the correct format for you. If you need secrets or credentials I haven't provided, ASK me — do not invent values or leave raw placeholders. After adding it, tell me how to verify the server is connected.BRAVE_API_KEYrequiredYour Brave Search API key.MCP server for searching Airweave collections with natural language queries.