rateme12Brave Search
latest · 2.1.3Web, image, and video search via Brave.
Install
Needs an env var: BRAVE_API_KEY — replace the <placeholders> with your values.
claude mcp add brave-search --env BRAVE_API_KEY=<BRAVE_API_KEY> -- npx -y @brave/brave-search-mcp-server/mcp confirms it's connected.
Or add it manually in ~/.cursor/mcp.json:
{
"mcpServers": {
"brave-search": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@brave/brave-search-mcp-server"
],
"env": {
"BRAVE_API_KEY": "<BRAVE_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}In claude_desktop_config.json (Settings → Developer → Edit Config), then restart:
{
"mcpServers": {
"brave-search": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@brave/brave-search-mcp-server"
],
"env": {
"BRAVE_API_KEY": "<BRAVE_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}Config entry, any MCP client:
{
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@brave/brave-search-mcp-server"
],
"env": {
"BRAVE_API_KEY": "<BRAVE_API_KEY>"
}
}Community score
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- Enforce rate limit locally (and support automatic retries) ↗
It is possible for agents to spawn multiple tool calls in parallel now, which makes it trivially easy to run into the rate limit without any ill intentions. To prevent this I currently have disable auto-approval for the brave-search tools, …
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- brave_web_search returns 'No web results found' when summary:true on free API plan ↗
Bug When calling brave_web_search with summary: true, the tool returns "No web results found". The same query without the summary parameter returns results normally. Steps to reproduce Configure the MCP server with a free-tier Brave API key…
- freshness date range format rejected by input validation ↗
Bug The freshness parameter on brave_web_search documents support for date ranges in YYYY-MM-DDtoYYYY-MM-DD format, but passing an actual date range (e.g. 2026-03-01to2026-04-06) fails input validation. Steps to reproduce Call brave_web_sea…
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- 2.1.3release date unknown
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