Brave Search (verified)

Brave Search (verified)

Search the web with Brave's independent index — web, news, images, and videos. Bring your own subscription token from the Brave Search API dashboard.

Quick Start

# Connect this server (installs CLI if needed)
npx -y smithery mcp add brave

# Browse available tools
npx -y smithery tool list brave

# Get full schema for a tool
npx -y smithery tool get brave brave_web_search

# Call a tool
npx -y smithery tool call brave brave_web_search '{}'

Direct MCP Connection

Endpoint: https://brave.run.tools

Required config:

• braveApiKey (query) — Your Brave Search subscription token. Get one at api-dashboard.search.brave.com.

Tools (8)

• brave_web_search — Performs web searches using the Brave Search API and returns comprehensive search results with rich metadata. To chain …
• brave_news_search — Searches for news articles using Brave's News Search API. Use it when you need current news, breaking updates, or artic…
• brave_image_search — Performs an image search using the Brave Search API. Helpful when you need pictures of people, places, things, graphic-…
• brave_video_search — Searches for videos using Brave's Video Search API. Returns structured video results with metadata.
• brave_local_search — Brave Local Search API returns enriched information (address, phone, hours, rating) for location-search results. Access…
• brave_llm_context — Retrieves pre-extracted, relevance-ranked web content using Brave's LLM Context API, optimized for AI agents, LLM groun…
• brave_place_search — Searches Brave's Place Search API. A single call may populate any combination of results (POIs), cities, `addresses…
• brave_summarizer — Retrieves AI-generated summaries of web search results. Two-step flow: first call brave_web_search with `summary=true…

# Get full input/output schema for a tool
npx -y smithery tool get brave