# Brave Search

**Type:** Official

**Source Type:** Repository

**Source:** [GitHub](https://github.com/smithery-ai/reference-servers/tree/main/src/brave-search)

**Description:** Brave Search MCP server integrates Brave's privacy-focused search API with AI assistants, providing web search, local business search, news, image, and video search capabilities. It offers intelligent fallback mechanisms, pagination support, and advanced filtering options while maintaining Brave's privacy-first approach to search.

**Configuration Parameters:**

* **mcp\_transport configuration** - Configuration value (optional)
* **mcp\_port configuration** - Configuration value (optional)
* **mcp\_host configuration** - Configuration value (optional)

**Setup Steps:**

1. Sign up for a Brave Search API account at <https://brave.com/search/api/>
2. Navigate to 'API keys' in the dashboard
3. Click 'Add API Key' to generate a new key
4. Copy the generated API key for configuration
5. Note: Free tier allows up to 2,000 queries per month

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```
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```

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Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.